Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
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Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#2Hard to believe, but I've been working on this Rails app for over 7 years now! It started as a Rails 1.0 app waaayyy back when, and I've managed to bring it along through almost every major Rails version (still working on updating to Rails 4.1), which I'm pretty proud of.
You can see screenshots at http://church.io.
Being specifically church software, it might not find much of an audience here on HN, but still, I'm proud, so wanted to post about it.
Keep inspiring HN!!!
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#3This is great stuff, how do you "market" it? There are generally not a ton of tech people at smaller churches and then at the larger/mega churches, they have entire teams, which IME, love vendor software vs roll your own.
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#4This is great stuff, how do you "market" it? There are generally not a ton of tech people at smaller churches and then at the larger/mega churches, they have entire teams, which IME, love vendor software vs roll your own.
Yeah I have no clue!! I'm struggling to find good places to announce this or generally make it known.
CITRT (Church IT Roundtable) is a huge community of IT folks which seem to also include some devs, but I really don't know any other good places.
Most of the commercial church software do heavy adword buys and sponsor church magazines and blogs and such. I have no means to do that :(
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#5I haven't dug into it yet, but that UI is really lovely. Really nice work.
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#6Hard to believe, but I've been working on this Rails app for over 7 years now! It started as a Rails 1.0 app waaayyy back when, and I've managed to bring it along through almost every major Rails version (still working on updating to Rails 4.1), which I'm pretty proud of. You can see screenshots at http://church.io . Being specifically church software, it might not find much of an audience here on HN, but still, I'm…
The screenshots look extremely polished. Good work! Is there anything specific that makes this a social network specially for churches? Maybe you should emphasize those points a little bit more? From 3 features listed in main page ("Directory", "Profiles" and "Groups"), only the screenshot for "Groups" contains something that makes me believe this is tailored at churches ("Prayer Request"). As I said you did a good job, just trying to give you constructive criticism :)
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#7This is great stuff, how do you "market" it? There are generally not a ton of tech people at smaller churches and then at the larger/mega churches, they have entire teams, which IME, love vendor software vs roll your own.
Yeah I have no clue!! I'm struggling to find good places to announce this or generally make it known. CITRT (Church IT Roundtable) is a huge community of IT folks which seem to also include some devs, but I really don't know any other good places. Most of the commercial church software do heavy adword buys and sponsor church magazines and blogs and such. I have no means to do that :(
You should think of trying to setup at some denominational conventions if you're around a metro area with conference space. Having a simple table with some literature (even if it's just a single black and white sheet) would get it in front of people.
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#8I haven't dug into it yet, but that UI is really lovely. Really nice work.
Thanks mostly to the MIT licensed (and awesome!) AdminLTE template. http://almsaeedstudio.com/AdminLTE/
I really can't thank that guy enough!
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#9Hard to believe, but I've been working on this Rails app for over 7 years now! It started as a Rails 1.0 app waaayyy back when, and I've managed to bring it along through almost every major Rails version (still working on updating to Rails 4.1), which I'm pretty proud of. You can see screenshots at http://church.io . Being specifically church software, it might not find much of an audience here on HN, but still, I'm…
Very nicely done...http://church.io looks far better than any other option out there.
In this case, I believe you are the inspiration. Keep up the great work!
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#10I think you have done a very nice job with the design and clean user interface.