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But there are a few thing churches do really well. Social networking it one of them. Facebook is an anemic imposter compared to First Assembly. This app is awesome. There is a lesson for general society in here somewhere. You know... for those who have ears.
Churches suck. (sorry church goers). I won't go into all the reasons why. The reasons are well documented for those wishing to confirm.... or just go to a church of your choice half a dozen times to find out personally. But there are a few thing churches do really well. Social networking it one of them. Facebook is an anemic imposter compared to First Assembly. This app is awesome. There is a lesson for general socie…
Not surprising... no, not that. Just amazing. Self delusion is the first self replicating virus I suppose. And manipulation never dies.
Churches suck. (sorry church goers). I won't go into all the reasons why. The reasons are well documented for those wishing to confirm.... or just go to a church of your choice half a dozen times to find out personally. But there are a few thing churches do really well. Social networking it one of them. Facebook is an anemic imposter compared to First Assembly. This app is awesome. There is a lesson for general socie…
Very neat. I think that with some slight tweaks this could be very applicable to home owners associations. This model could also be offered as a hosted version like someone else commented. (not that I really like HOA's all that much)
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Why not?
Well, only 1% of the software "is Christian". The other 99% has already been created in various forms. I'm not criticising the project, I just don't know why he didn't extend existing software, or even fork something like BuddyPress.
Also, if I had built OneBody using PHP I certainly would not have lasted this long in keeping it going. Ruby is great language that I really enjoy using every day.
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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 cle…
Glory to God! :-) It's just my passion. I really hope someone does build this as a slick hosted service. I don't do well dealing with customers :-)
You are a good man--
Hard 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…
> true # everyone can read bible verses! must be my favourite code comment ever. :) https://github.com/churchio/onebody/blob/3cac22587627b7846ea...
No love for the Apocrypha though it seems ;-). Not being Catholic, I don't know how much teaching is done out of those books, but this might reach a larger audience if the books to show were configurable.