Beardspotter is an awesome single-page mobile web app that we cooked up to play with design for casual social and geo-location features. We solved a number of real problems with our little toy, and have made the code open source for you to learn from and reuse. If you use it, be a sport and throw us a credit at @denimandsteel or denimandsteel.com
Setting up on your local, make sure you install node.js and PostgreSQL:
- $ git clone https://github.com/denimandsteel/beardspotter.git
- $ cd beardspotter
- $ createdb beardspotter # create database in PostgreSQL
- $ node schema.js # create schema
- $ node index.js
Then you can deploy on Heroku (basically: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-js):
- $ heroku create --stack cedar
- $ git push heroku master
- $ heroku ps:scale web=1
- $ heroku addons:add shared-database
- $ heroku run node schema.js
- $ heroku open
The background photo on the main page is derived from http://www.flickr.com/photos/omaromar/2063335787/sizes/l/in/photostream/ by Omar Omar. The Creative Commons license for this photo can be viewed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Additional design assistance from Angela Rabideau.
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