OpenQuest, connect with people around a shared goal for a short time
Hey everyone! I built a little side project called OpenQuest over the last three weeks, and I'm looking for some feedback to see if it's worth taking further. The idea is simple: it's a place to create a chat room where you can connect with people (a maximum of 8) who have the same goal as you, for a short time (7 days for now). Think of it as a way to stay motivated, hold each other accountable, or simply work together with new people on something specific. Some examples can be: - Following a programming course - Reading a book - Getting back to the gym - Cleaning up your home - Shopping…
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Hey everyone! I built a little side project called OpenQuest over the last three weeks, and I'm looking for some feedback to see if it's worth taking further. The idea is simple: it's a place to create a chat room where you can connect with people (a maximum of 8) who have the same goal as you, for a short time (7 days for now). Think of it as a way to stay motivated, hold each other accountable, or simply work together with new people on something specific. Some examples can be: - Following a programming course - Reading a book - Getting back to the gym - Cleaning up your home - Shopping for a mechanical keyboard For example, here's a room I created to get things going: https://openquest.app/rooms/6 Why did I build this? Mostly as a response to what the internet feels like these days. Social media is to me an overwhelmingly negative time waster, where it feels like we're uniting more around things we hate than common interests. And search engines are so SEO-optimized that it's now almost impossible to find new and genuine things. Crowdsourcing research, even for something simple like shopping for a new graphics card, seems like it could be more enjoyable with a small group of people going through the same thing. And if anyone is interested: the tech stack is Elixir + Phoenix + LiveView. I’d love to hear what you think, whether it’s positive, negative, or somewhere in between. Any feedback is helpful, please don’t hold back. Thanks for taking a look!
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