Advice on how to build

bgdaddy55

Big Daddy
Oct 12, 2010
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Redding, CA
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Amazing and super WF brainiacs. I'm not even sure why I am posting this here because I'm just going to open myself to ridicule and get lousy answers, but I decided to run it as a contest to see if I could raise up the level of input.

I want to build a website. It's a simple idea really, but I'm not familiar with how to pull it off. I normally build in Joomla, but that won't work for this site.

I want it to be mobile (micro). I want to set up a home page with 10 Categories. When you click on a category, you would get a stream of content that is put there by users. It's like a Facebook or Twitter, but specific to the one top (10 categories). Most input would be put in by phone or just posted like Facebook.

Obviously, I don't have millions of dollars to build a new Facebook or Twitter, but it doesn't need to be pretty or robust. We are talking about a running stream of user-input content. That shouldn't be that hard.

Any ideas? Is there a CMS that is directed at this type of site? If you need more information, then I'd be happy as a pig in crap to provide it.

Thanks in advance to those who are actually here to help others. I will try my best to ignore posts from the cyber bullies. :)

I will send $10 to your Paypal account if you can come up with a good solution. I am the only one who deems what a good solution is and I may deem one or two winners. You may not like the prize pool, but think about it.....$10 for taking 2 minutes to write a post. That works out to $300 an hour and I don't even pay hookers that.
 


I THINK, you are after something similar to Public timeline - Identi.ca ?

I'm sure it could be customised to include cat's fairly easily, may even work like that out of the box, I havent looked into it in huge details.

If the above does interest you, it's run on StatusNet | Your Network. May be worth taking a look.

PS: If this is a "good solution", keep your $10, go buy a pizza or something :)
 
Not really sure what you're going for exactly, but here are a few more options for you to look at (in addition to what Jake posted).

Twitter like functionality for Wordpress - P2 WordPress Theme, like Twitter in a box
Twitter clone, kind of - Floopo - Free micro blog - start a micro blogging community just like twitter (tm) with our script - software - twitter clone - Micro Blogging Script
Another microblogging platform, python based - jaikuengine - Project Hosting on Google Code
Another one, rails based - https://www.echowaves.com/

If any of this was what you were looking for, I'm w/ Jake...keep your $10 and pay it forward to someone else here who needs help.
 
I have to admit that I am actually impressed. You guys are awesome. Those solutions are really good.

The only thing that I will have to investigate is how it looks on a mobile browser.

Once again, thanks. I really appreciate it and I also appreciate the "Pay it forward" sentiment.
 
Glad to see you got it sorted, as I said - I'm not sure if it has cat's right out of the box, but it does groups. I'm pretty sure it could be done without too much effort anyway.