Gravity — Let’s build our own social network

Lately I was looking for a social network for programmers where I could hang out / chat with other guys and share e.g. new findings about / Meteor and JavaScript. I don’t mean the news aggregation sites. I mean something like Facebook but more informational rather than a collection of cat videos where I’m mentioned.

Unfortunately I was not able to find one. So I thought to myself why don’t we build our own social network with all the features we ever wanted!?

Introducing Gravity

I started a Meteor project called “Gravity” and implemented a simple newsfeed functionality.
It would be great if you participate. Open up some issues, Pull requests, any kind of contribution is welcomed!

The vision

This shouldn’t be a rival to Telescope or other platforms.

Gravity is a community platform where we all can meet and connect more easily to get to know each other. A place where we can hang out. Developed in a way we want our social network to be.

Do we want a place to share photos from our meetups? Let’s develop it!
Do we need a place where we can post cool projects and share ideas about MVPs? Let’s build it!

Furthermore it should be a great learning experience for everyone and Meteor is a great platform to power this platform.

How can I help

Here’s the link to the Gravity repository:
https://github.com/GravityProject/gravity

Here are some basic ideas we could implement:
https://github.com/GravityProject/gravity/issues

The most recent version is always available at:
http://joingravity.com

Let’s create a place where we can hang around and connect more easily!

I believe we’ll learn a lot during this journey.

What do you think?

It would be great if you could share the idea with other fellows. So that we reach as many people as possible.