amberwolf said:
stan.distortion said:
Trello can work well for that, starting with an idea and take it through all the necessary stages to a completed project.
I must be looking at the wrong "trello"
https://trello.com/en-US
because all I see when I look at their description is a service that "manages teams", not something that makes code for you based on an idea of what you want it to do. Their "pricing plans" page doesn't list any of the things I would need something like that to do.
(I didn't look at the actual prices, so I don't know how expensive it really is, even if it did apply to my need. Just guessing, I'd expect that its completely beyond my means and probably that of most of the FOSS projects out there, unless it is a project popular enough to get a lot of donations).
No, that's all it's intended for, managing teams. It's useful for taking a concept and breaking it down into individual tasks and stages and that's what we're missing here imho, there's an absolute wealth of individual talent on this forum but combined talent is scarce.
You'd easily find someone who could plan out the necessary steps to building, say for example, an automatic electronic gearchange and someone to design the electronic hardware, someone to assemble PCB's, someone to write the code, design the enclosures... and so on but you'd have a hard time getting the whole thing done in one go and would probably end up having to pay big bucks.
It's surprising tbh because it's obvious there are loads of great business opportunities in the space, things like Cycle Analyst and Nuclear controllers have a great following and their order books full but people and organisations willing to do that, the whole quality package from start to finish, seem few and far between.
Again, crypto is worth keeping an eye on. Several crypto projects are using Trello for community software development and are in the process of building more up to date platforms of the same kind, integrated payments being the obvious step with decentralisation and cross platform functionality as key goals. It relates to all the NFT stuff, blockchain based interoperable objects rather than database entries on a server.
I admit that I don't know much about any of that stuff, because I don't have any interest in any of it, but I don't see how any of it applies to me (or the idea I proposed) or anything I would ever want to do.
Maybe I just missed the relevance? Or maybe you were replying to someone else in the thread? Sometimes I am obtuse because my brain simply doesn't work like normal people's.
It's not really relevant yet, likely will be in the not to distant future. The term "cryptocurrency" is going to be a serious hindrance because of the "currency" part of the name. "Tokenisation" would be more accurate and monetary tokens, "coins" with a simple numeric value representing quantity are probably the most basic kind of token possible, things have come on a long way since.
Take the example above, the various tasks to creating an item of hardware. Each of those can come down to a job offer, "Wanted: Circuit designer" and "For sale: Electronic geegaw" for example. Historically that's been done with central services, ebay has heaps of electronic geegaws for sale on its servers and the same things are often for sale on amazon, a different server, different account and if a vendor wants to also list on craigslist that's another service, another account... and so on.
With tokenisation that just happens once, that item gets listed and maybe goes through various improvements (translated manual, better pics and description etc) and is available to any page that wants to show it with just a few lines of HTML, someone here comes up with a geegaw to sell and it automagically gets listed on all the commerce sites and anywhere else that wants to include that kind of item. Ads can be a token, an object in programming terms and they can contain an almost limitless amount of information (at a price, data storage has costs but that's another story, would be easily below $0.01 for an ad with the pics etc. as links).
What if that electronic geegaw was a controller and you wanted a config for a particular motor? If the controllers app stores the config as a token then all configs are available to everyone using it, no searching around discussions and emailing vendors, just pick the most popular from the list and tweak if needed. Tokenisation is what "the cloud" dreamed of being, far more than just a distributed payment system.
(Sry for the rambling and mostly irrelevant post)