Impressive. I might use it!
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
#42What 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".
>>"Church" is just the generic English word for "place of worship".
It definitely is not. I have no idea where you even came up with this.
Heck, there are even groups of Christians who object to the use of the word "church" to mean place of worship.
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or a temple, synagogue, cathedral, monastery, abbey, tabernacle, or center? "Church" is just the generic English word for "place of worship".
I don't think any non-Christian in the United States would agree with this. Not that there's anything wrong with sticking to a particular audience.
One of the largest synagogues in Chicago asks people to contact its "church representative" to place advertising in its bulletin.
You're much more right than I am, though. Certainly, non-Christian faiths in the US don't use the term "church" by default.
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#44Looks good. One positive benefit I can see from churches using this is that they won't have to force their members to join Facebook to stay connected.
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#45Hard 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 nice. I've been asked for church directory software recommendations more than once, and this is much better than other software I've seen.
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#46I 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.
It looks like the same type of software, give or take a feature or two or my opinion that OneBody looks way better than onthecity.com. The difference is that OneBody (or Church.io) is free and open source. OnTheCity is a SAAS which starts at $85 - $388 (or more) per month depending on the size of the church. This doesn't even include a "setup fee" which for some reason ranges from $99 - $499 (or more) depending on the size of the church.
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#47Why can't a church use a general purpose social network framework? How are the constraints/feature-needs different for a non-church group?
I'm asking from a place of honest curiously. Could a non-religious community group use this? Could a church get by with a social networking tool built for non-religious groups?
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#48Hard 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…
Why are you not charging money for this?
At the very least, you should offer a hosted version of this (borrowing the wordpress.com/wordpress.org model would seem the best plan) so that non-technical churches could click a button and just have it magically spin up a website and start billing their card every month.
Seems a bit silly looking in from the outside that you'd spend seven years building something that's clearly worth selling, then refuse to sell it. I wouldn't be surprised to see a few "church.io hosting" businesses spring up within a week if you don't build that option yourself.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 j…
Groups is the main one, sure (it has "prayer requests"), but also attendance tracking, sync without outside church management systems, etc. I probably should highlight more of that stuff on the site... thanks!
Attendance tracking is a thing? That sounds nightmarish!
Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
#50Why can't a church use a general purpose social network framework? How are the constraints/feature-needs different for a non-church group? I'm asking from a place of honest curiously. Could a non-religious community group use this? Could a church get by with a social networking tool built for non-religious groups?
I'd second the question in the form of a recommendation. From what I see in the screenshots, it seems like fairly minimal changes would also allow you to also pitch a variant of this as a tool for user groups, non-Christian congregations, and other such communities. Very nice looking tool!