Other ideas for web applications

April 7th, 2008 | Posted in development |

I’m tossing around more ideas for web applications, just to see if there is anything I can really latch onto as a project to hone my ruby skills. One idea that came up arises from a need my World of Warcraft guild has for guild management. It would be awesome to be able to manage and maintain the following items in one application:

• An updated roster, periodically synced from Blizzard’s Armory website
• A forum for communication
• A calendar for scheduling raids
• An application with ability to manage what classes are needed for recruitment
• Integration with WowJutsu for guild rankings
• Integration with Wowhead for item links
• Server status polling

That’s just a few use cases that I can think of off the top of my head, and really the list could be expanded upon to make it attractive to guilds/clans for a variety of games. Right now people have to spend money on services to provide this sort of thing for them, having an open source guild management system they can put on whatever webhost they want (as long as it supports Rails) would be awesome. I might consider this and start hacking away on it.

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