Hello Rodinhooders,
I have been following you for quite a while and meanwhile felt a strong urge to start something on my own as well. Yes, you can call me either influenced or inspired by you all and your work, but no matter what it did give me courage to move on from idea phase to implementation phase.
I had many ideas, which like any other guy, wanted to get implemented but because of lack of like minded people around you or resources, those ideas remain forever dreams. I was one among them but soon decided or say, forced myself, to take a step ahead start building something on my own.
To start with, instead of creating too complex, decided with PINGLE.IN, it’s a social platform [like any other Facebook Group], you might be part of].
At Pingle, you can basically Ask, Discuss and Participate.
Having said that, it allows you to ask any question you have, which can be anything from looking for a maid in your area, knowing about Chinese restaurants/Schools/Pubs in your city [yeah, with reviews, general info and photos]. Your questions gets posted on the wall and is visible to every Pingle member. And that’s it, members can choose to be part of discussion by commenting, notifying post owner privately about someone who can be the help to post owner OR choose to ignore as well (No, hard feelings)!
I have also used Google powered search Engine, which will give you instant results for the question you have asked provided you tag important keywords just below your question [Yes, you need to tag and I need to remove this and thats one among many suggestions I already got :)]
I wanted to go with this idea, because it was easy for me to develop since I am a programmer myself and with a keen interest on having something on my own. I did face “leave this crap” here issues and “nothing is gonna happen, why are you wasting time” kind of mid-implementation syndromes but at the end, I wanted to have it accessible by everyone and to undergo the whole process of converting an idea to reality [Which is more important for me]. I wanted to take the first step towards starting something on my own and have taken it and trust me it does give a very proud feeling when someone appreciates it, no matter it is as simple as the word simple itself.
I am attaching some screenshots of the application and sincerely, eagerly and anxiously waiting for your suggestions to improve it more. I don’t wont to monetize the idea but yes I do want it to recognized.
All your negative/positive feedbacks will be taken seriously with a inbuilt automated virtual thank you!
Like the page if you would like to pingle it! 🙂 – Pingle is on facebook … Yayyy!!
Technical Skills used: Spring/Hibernate, AngularJS, facebook SDK.
Time taken: 2 Weeks.
