I have been working on telvee for a few months. To be precise gitk tells the initial commit was at 2009-06-24 16:20:38. I have been meaning to write about it but just couldn’t find the time (or should I say couldn’t drag my lazy ass to do it). Anyway. I have marked version 0.3 for telvee today and here it is.
Telvee is a social toy built around the idea of coffee grounds reading. No, it is not a fortunetelling application. Telvee is intentionally dumb in that sense. It generates an image of the remains inside a coffee cup. Looking at this image, users write fortunes for other users’ cups. This is the basic idea.
What if you don’t know anything about coffee reading? Well, we have a 12 step program that… No, no. If you don’t have proper coffee reading skills just make something up. Telvee is after all nothing more than a social toy. I am very passionate about coffee reading. I can’t tell a fortune. But I can drink the coffee, turn the cup and listen to my fortunes. This has worked pretty well for me in real life. We’ll see how it works out on the Internet when telvee is launched.
As you might have guessed telvee is a Django project. I am happy to work on a well organized, clean and well tested (91% coverage) codebase.
What Works?
Basically all the main functions are in place:
- Cup image generated ✔
- You can write fortunes ✔
- You can moderate fortunes (but blocking is broken) ✔
- Deleting, recovering, liking, unliking…
- You can write comments ✔
- You can delete comments (but blocking is broken) ✔
- Friending works ✔
- You can block users (but it doesn’t have any effect for now, hence broken) ✔
- Invitations work (but, currently hidden from testers) ✔
- Account management works (but, incomplete) ✔
What Needs To Be Done?
Aside from critical functions I haven’t thought of:
- A blog
- Groups
- Improvements on many pages including homepage
- Django goodies that has little to do with frontend experience.
When Will It Be Finished?
Probably never. But I would like to initiate a proper beta this year. And then launch as soon as possible, maybe before summer. It is currently tested by a tiny group of people. I will start sending invites as soon as I decide it’s reasonably embarrasing.
If you would like to try telvee; please leave your e-mail at http://www.telvee.com.
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