From: Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T02:06:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Request for ideas: simple, useful web app

Kirk Haines wrote:

>I'm working on a much broader set of IOWA documentation, and core to this is 
>an approach of building, by the end, some sort of useful web application.
>
>I'm making myself a list of ideas, and am hopeful that the varied minds on 
>this list might have a few good ones.
>
>The vague criteria are:
>
>1) Can't be too complex as I have to walk a person through building the 
>whole thing.
>2) Should interact with a db of some sort.
>3) Would be great if one could do file uploads in it somewhere.
>4) If it could do some sort of on-the-fly SVG or image generation or 
>something like that, I could leverage that.
>
>
>Other than that, I'm wide open.  Whatever it is, I'd like it to be something 
>that is at least moderately useful in a practical sense, and not just an 
>academic curiosity.
>
>Ideas, anyone?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kirk Haines
>
>
>  
>
How about a music review site?  A user can view existing reviews or add 
their own to the database.  A review can consist of text inputted into a 
form and pictures (of the band or whatever) that are either uploaded or 
linked to.  You could generate "band shirts" from a picture of a blank 
shirt and a user uploaded graphic.


-Matthew Margolis