Project

A platform meant to facilitate collaboration and file sharing. Should be a file-sharing-first platform. Sort of blog-like where anybody can submit a post to a global feed that anyone on the server can view. People on the server can then reply to the post either with another rich-media comment or plain text. This could be web only but it would be useful to have a mobile app as well for push notifications and being able to save media offline.

Instances

Self hosted by users or hosted by us. Access should be restricted to invite-only by the server's owner. Everything should be customizable including css styling of all components. Maybe even specific to users within a server. Possibility of also having each private server have a public-facing page (also stylized) that lets a group showcase work or ask for help within a specific area of expertise the group could use help with. Possibly make servers peer-discoverable.

Posts

Posts can contain any type of file or link (audio file, video, link, text, program-specific project files, zip, w/e) with additional text. Posts could be made to either showcase work, simply post for the sake of sharing it, or ask for comments / collaboration. Posts are displayed like blog entries in a main feed. Display features: [-] text - pure text (maybe markdown or at least html/css) - link + text [-] visual (single or gallery) - images - videos - gifs [-] audio - single track (or album or playlist) - album - playlist of files - spotify (detect link and embed player(?)) [-] files - software project files (.psd, .als, .blend, etc...) - .zip, .img, .iso, .w/e Make it easy to listen to audio with a click-once-and-let-play function. Everyone within the server should be able to comment. Comments should also be able to contain rich media. Can like / repost comments and posts. Tag posts using custom keywords (or by color). Tag @people in a post or comment to send them push notification. Can also subscribe to custom keyword tags to get notified.

Business Model

Personal

Acts as a mini social network. They host: (free) - users can choose to host their own instance free of charge - we just provide the software We host: (free or paid) - we host a free tier that places some restrictions on file size - provide paid tier the lets users post full-size files without restrictions - subscription fee / month (maybe $10-20 range?) - Apple Pay "pool" where everyone in the server participates and subscribes for $2/month to join - must be easy to subscribe / unsub

Professional

Acts as a project tracker / easy dropoff colaboration platform. They host: (paid) - sold as a SaaS - like personal version with more specific project tracking functions We host: (paid) - sold as a SaaS - should be easy to spawn new instances on a per-project basis - also bill for storage costs