Accelerator 5th Meetup MVP Discussion

19/10/16

Present: Annette, Andrew, Cedric, Kylie, Oliver

Cedric was present to hand over the tech work he had done

Cedric:

Backend:

A skin could be created for the backend to make it more user friendly

Need to get backend server for database sorted

Change local urls

Sort error messages and success messages

Currently randomly generating ids- need to generate proper ids with unique identities

N.b. On Github the heading for the back-end section is misleadingly titled “What The Fact” (which can’t be easily changed for historical issues) whereas the heading for the front-end section is more helpfully titled “What The Fact Frontend”

Need to ask users for permissions for ethical reasons

http + https to satisfy imminent new Google regs

N.b. Extensions can be malicious- so Google has security policy in place

Sinatra API was used as it provided a quick solution (Rails API would have been used if had more time)

Mongoid was used- why? Quick!

Frontend:

Action: Kylie to provide icon in SVG and PNG

Annette idea: Inputting of known lies; siren for alerting user to lies

Issue- user highlighting facts themselves vs. automated highlighting/detection of lies

Conclusion: idea is a good one but a different product and therefore shelved for the time being

Cedric individually briefed Annette to be set up for working on frontend tech and Andrew for working on backend tech between this and the next meetup.

Tech needs: Biggest immediate need is for someone with skills in Ruby as that is currently the biggest gap in our collective skillset. In an ideal world, we’d like someone to take on the role of technical lead and even better if they could commit on working on the project till final meetup on 14th December. Nick will reach out to the tech community.

Kylie did value prop tests which revealed that potential user were most interested in the community aspect.

MozFest: We have a slot at MozFest on Sat 29th Nov which is an ideal opportunity to get some devs to work on the project and even better pull some of them into joining us at subsequent HackBrexit meetups.

MozFest Actions:

Register product with Chrome Store

Write up Getting Started Docs for Devs

Oliver and Kylie to work on wireframes and user stories for devs to work from at MozFest

Update Hackpad in prep for MozFest