Imagenary Open Mobile Photo Blogs for Everyone

    Long thought how to present our toy project made on the "knee" and for a couple of evenings, a kind of just-for-fun for the evening.

    Preamble. At some point, I personally was tired of posting my photos on shared social networks and the idea occurred to me, what if I made a simple “Instagram-Wordpress-Gallery2” for personal needs. This “fatal flaw” led to the birth of Imagenary - it's completely free, open source - a photo album that can be easily used for blogging and socialization. A photo album with an open API and an existing working mobile client for Windows Phone 7 & 8.
    The main idea, it was our small project that I would like to introduce to you.




    The main idea was to make a simple blog that you could pick up for yourself, install on your hosting and use a mobile client to post your photos. It is possible to finish something for yourself, for example, to make a family photo album on the basis of which only family members would have access. Or even make your own little social network of tourists.
    In general, there are no restrictions, a start has been made, take it, use it and support the features as well with our pull-request requests, we will only be happy.

    Of course it is better to see 1 time than to read it 100 times on Habré.
    Therefore, I will immediately give a reference on the example of my blog installation: http://imonno.ru
    This, so to speak, is our test site, where we test the web application itself and mobile clients.

    A few images for those who don’t follow the links or in case the DigitalOcean account doesn’t stand the habra effect:

    and an already opened image (in the middle of the work week).

    Ready-to-use mobile client can only be installed here Windows Phone 7 & 8
    Thanks to Alexander github.com/AlexandrYZ for him.

    Why wp? Everything is simple here, I myself am a user of this mobile platform, but it was done primarily for myself. It looks beautiful in my opinion and something like this:

    If you look closely, you can see that once installed mobile client can be used for different domains, this is a nice feature.

    We also have a very simple and open API, which I tried to describe hereimonno.ru/about/api (REST + JSON is absolutely nothing complicated) and in general, we are open to any changes, requests and criticism.

    There is still a raw, but almost working mobile client for iOS - github.com/ufacode/imagenary.ios thanks for the code, you can send Ildar github.com/iyulan and here we would not be in the way of the help of the community, namely a person who could bring code before functioning.

    And in the name of open source it’s worth talking about technologies:

    1. The web application is written in Ruby on Rails 4, I don’t cut Turbolinks, I like it, it’s a little covered with RSpec + Capybara tests, the default database is MySQL, but change the problems to Postgres or SQLite should not arise, very simple queries and all through ActiveRecord.
    Frontend is written using a slightly themed Twitter Bootstrap, CoffeeScript, a bit of Backbone (I only took Routing) and Masonry.js for a nice a la Pinterest alignment.
    github.com/ufacode/imagenary

    2. The client for Windows Phone 7 & 8 is written in C # and .NET
    github.com/ufacode/imagenary.wp

    3. The client for iOS is written in Objective-C
    github.com/ufacode/imagenary.ios

    In In general, we will be glad to any ideas, suggestions, women , money and all possible assistance for the development of this simple thing.
    First of all, of course, we need help with the iOS client and who would be able to tackle the Android version of the client.
    And of course, suddenly you have some business suggestions, we are always ready to listen to them and work together.

    Thank you all, I will try to answer your questions or discuss any suggestions or comments.

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