What if my church is called a mosque?
Or a temple, synagogue, cathedral, monastery, abbey, tabernacle, or center?
"Church" is just the generic English word for "place of worship".
Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
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#22Wow, that looks like some quality stuff. Nice work.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I understand 80%+ of churches probably won't bother to try to install something like this. I'll just be happy if anyone can get some use out of it, as it makes me happy to share. I would LOVE for someone to offer hosted OneBody -- I just can't do it because I have a day job and really dislike typical customer support. (Love helping other tech people and hackers, but am really bad at being patient with "customers…
Maybe you could find someone to integrate it into Sandstorm: https://sandstorm.io/
Cool! I wasn't aware of Sandstorm... will check it out!
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#24"You can see lots of screenshots here." - Amazing how many people forget to do that. Good stuff.
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#25This is really nicely done. My parish seems really fond of phone services like CallingPost; you might be able to do some integration with Twilio to annoy other church people the same way. :)
You might also consider an explicit obit feature, along with explicit features for weddings and baptisms, since those are the big "out of process" services (at least in Catholic churches) that need announcements.
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#26Hard 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…
Even though I'm not religious, this really looks wonderful. I'd be happy to recommend it to church-going coworkers and friends.
Echoing zerokarmaleft, this time you are the inspiration.
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#27I know little about this kind of software, but a local church uses this site like it provides similar functionality?: http://www.onthecity.org/
Have you compared your project to this company's offering at all? I'm just wondering if they are even similar.
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#28What if my church is called a mosque?
The software is definitely Christian church focused because that's where we first built it, but no reason it couldn't be adapted for other uses!
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#29I remember using this years ago to build out a private social network for a fraternal organization. It works very well even for non-monastic purposes!
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#30What if my church is called a mosque?
Your point is well-made. Language is very important on religious websites. My church used an online directory from a commercial provider which had fairly obvious opinions about the appropriate mix of genders in a family. Their opinion was directly opposite that of our congregations and ultimately we dropped the system in favor of another.