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It's a full stack hosted platform. It allows you to build social apps by combining javascript widgets. Instead of serving canned social plugins, with a few con
by romain_dardour 14y ago
It's a full stack hosted platform.
It allows you to build social apps by combining javascript widgets.
Instead of serving canned social plugins, with a few config options, we let developers complete control over those widgets, and let them extend and create new ones.
The Why is that when building a social app, you always need user authentication, friends lists, collections, ratings, comments ...
When developing from scratch, You always have to come up with an architecture, set up data retreival and storage, and debug social mechanics
We offer developers to skip the setup part and the debugging part and just start from something that already works.
- Lerc 14y ago>when building a social app, you always need user authentication, friends lists, collections, ratings, comments ... I think that presupposes what the task will be too much. It is facilitating social apps as they are today rather than how they could be. At the fundamental level, what is needed is Authentication and authorised data access. The authorisation system is one where data can be conditionally detected, accessed and modified by specific identities. That will allow friends lists, collections, ratings, comments etc. without dictating the form those things should take. The authorisation mechanism is a hard problem™. I think it isn't impossible though.
- drumdance 14y agoThis still doesn't give a lot of info. Frame it more in terms of use cases i.e. * Comments on Facebook's platform * Incorporate Twitter @replies * Login/create account Etc.