Comments on: What we're working on this week

What we're working on this week

mathowie — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:38:26 -0800

Current workload, to finish by August 7, our proposed launch date: To Do before launch ~~- Tips~~ ~~- Forum reformating (clean up CSS)~~ ~~- Log~~ ~~- Log RSS~~ ~~- Best Tank action item~~ - JS blog widget / wizard ~~- .csv export of fuel-ups/car~~ ~~- collapse multiple activity entries from single person~~ ~~- dashboard has recent activity from friends~~ ~~- nofollow everywhere~~ ~~- find friends page~~ ~~- email on friend add~~ - email reminders after 2 weeks/4 weeks ~~- privacy policy/terms of service~~ ~~- index page for first-time visitors with screenshots/screencast explaining the site~~ ~~- add "added" & "updated" messages to car & user profile pages.~~ ~~- captcha for signup?~~ Round 2 features (soon after launch) - car sharing - mpg challenges among friends - API post/get - oauth - openid - internationalization - groups with forums - facebook app - retiring a car

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:52:11 -0800

ugh, I'm hating this comment reformatting. I think I'm gonna go back to how it was.

By: pb

pb — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:03:01 -0800

Have you tried it with profile photos? Might be fun with those.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:08:47 -0800

Holy crap, fast work there pb. I agree the thumbnails are starting to look pretty cool. I'll move them over here too, then reformat the front page of the forum index.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:44:47 -0800

Ok, we are all set to go on Thursday -- js widgets will move to the weekend when Round 2 starts.

By: scottj

scottj — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:26:26 -0800

Are you guys going to do an iPhone web interface? That sure would be nice.

By: pb

pb — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:04:01 -0800

scottj, head over to m.fuelly.com on your iPhone for adding fuel-ups. If you just want to browse the site it doesn't look too bad on an iPhone.

By: nipper

nipper — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:34:35 -0800

You know, if you asked for a default ZIP Code (or metro area)...you'd have the ability to track average gas prices by ZIP/Meto area. You'd want to provide the ability to indicate if the fill up took place "out of town." It wouldn't be statistical, but would provide interesting data.

Tracking octane would be good (for those of us with cars that can run on 87, but the mfgr says 91 is better)...so we can see if higher octane increases MPG enough to justify the cost. Tracking octane would also give you a chance to educate people that there is NO reason to use a higher octane than what the mfgr recommends (it WILL NOT give a car better MPG). You could also list recommended octane for each car model.

By: neuromusic

neuromusic — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:40:36 -0800

Are you guys running drupal? The site feels like drupal...

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:49:04 -0800

Naw, it's actually coldfusion, due to the codebase we started with on MetaFilter, which I put together in 1999 in CF originally.