Hello,
Yet another Rails launch announcement! We love rails and the latest
thing we've put together is whatstheplan.com, a better way to plan
events online. It's a clean, elegant solution for organizing stuff
with your friends. It integrates with Google local search, maps,
calendar and sends useful and informative messages to your buddies.
You can also collect payments up front with Paypal if you need to do
things like book a conference room or sailboat.
- The welcome e-mail message where I had to confirm my email address
was blocked by the spam filter in my gmail account... I guess this is
going to happen for a lot of people. Should be fixed somehow.
- When at the front page it shows the signup box although I am logged
in. Maybe an idea to hide it when users are logged in?
- Cool that you can subscribe to upcoming events using iCal or other
apps that support the iCalendar format!
- in the "about USERNAME" box on the right side of the profile page
you display all the different questions like "what are your favorite
joints around town" although I haven't answered them. Maybe you could
remove the ones that haven't been filled out by the user? Cleans up
the layout.
- as somebody else said: the browse section doesn't work. Just get an
error.
- really cool that you can write things like "next tuesday" in the
when field when creating new events! But it might still need some
work. I tried "monday in a month" and the event was added as if I had
written next monday...
- support for other currencies than $?
- when selecting timezone in the profile it is somewhat irritating
that you have added the most used at the top. I couldn't just skip to
my town by typing the first letters. Secondly even though you hadn't
added the "Most used" places at the top I still wouldn't have been
able to jump directly to my city as they are written like "continent -
city". Third: Zürich is written with ü. You have added it as Zurich.
Wouldn't it be cool with some ajax-autocomplete timezone text-field?
Or you could have the different options in the list added as "COUNTRY
- CITY" or "CITY - COUNTRY" or something like that? Or you could have
a select like you have now where you preselect the city that the you
think the user is in based on the IP or something...