Thought Share

A simple social network

https://thought-share.appspot.com

Some features

• Build user profiles with custom profile pictures.
• Create groups and build communities.
• Post in groups or edit your previous posts.
• Private groups.
• Instant search to find groups.
• Notifications for group posts.
• Requests for joining/adminship of private groups.
• Nice clean user interface inspired from Google's Material UI.

Please note that Thought Share is still under development. Currently, you can sign-up only via your Google account.

Tech-stack used (for developers)

Backend

• Hosted on Google App Engine and built using the webapp2 framework.
• Google Datastore NDB for database.
• Jinja2 as the templating language.
• Blobstore to host images.
• Google's Images API to serve/crop images on go.
• Instant search built on Google's Search API.
• User accounts are handled using Google's Users API

Frontend

• KnockoutJS
• jQuery
• RequireJS to load modules.
• SammyJS for front-end routing.
• Velocity as the animation engine.
• Pop-up modals are built using simple-modals (written by myself).
• Material Icons for the icon-set.