Back-end is using @kyledrake's Sammy Davis Junior as an MVC boilerplate.
Using @mirven's twitter oauth sinatra demo as a basis for twitter authentication, employing the oauth and grackle gems.
Using Heroku's cedar stack at gif.herokuapp.com for hosting.
Using Twitter's brand new Bootstrap for user interface development.
Using Amazon S3 for file hosting.
In other words, no dollars were spent in the making of this site.
- Use Sammy Davis Jr for Ruby boilerplate
- Implement Twitter OAuth
- Deploy to Heroku's Cedar stack for staging
- Use Twitter Bootstrap for CSS boilerplate
- Build UI
- Connect to Amazon S3
- Write Gif & User models
- Create persistent users from OAuth user data
- Write CRUD for Gifs
- Implement Short URLs
- Build rating & favorites system
- Implement asymmetrical friending
- Allow pasting URLs for gif upload
- Allow posts to Twitter