Posts tagged with “ruby” and “redlists”
My Associate Cornelius
Matt and I have [mostly] finished working on screenprinter and all-around cool guy Micah Smith’s portfolio website. We built the news, contact, portfolio, and info sections. The store is just a link to his page on Blue Collar Distro.
Micah did the design himself, I mostly just focused on putting the thing together, and Matt made it work. I’m happy with the way it turned out, although I might have to redo some things in the portfolio section to make it more IE friendly. The emphasis is on might. I’m not sure if I want to be friendly to IE users.
The whole thing was built with Ruby on Rails. His blog, which is separate from the Rails server, is powered by Chyrp wearing a custom theme put together by yours truly.
Along with the front-end My Associate User Experience, we’re getting close to finishing a client section where clients can view proofs of current projects. However, this is Top Secret and no one can know about it but you.
Micah is now using RedLists for his mailing list. He’s our biggest user yet. Why not try and outdo him?
redlists Beta Launch
My buddy Matt and I have been working on our mailing list application/service, redlists, for quite a while now, and we’ve just launched the beta.
Redlists is a mailing list service that is remotely hosted and managed. Subscription management is handled by the subscribers themselves, rather than solely the list manager. When logged in to redlists, users can manage their subscription status and subscribe to new public lists.
Message archives, drafting, user management, and multiple list management are supported. Integrated tools are in the works, including widgets that can be plopped in your site and a contact importer (for those switching from another mailing list method that want to manually add subscribers.)
We are currently looking for beta testers. During the beta period, the service is free. Upon initial launch, rates will be announced. We still need to figure out how to cover our costs. If you would like to test the service or have any input on what you think appropriate pricing would be, please contact me at ross at redlists.com, or leave a comment on this post.
Redlists was written in Ruby on Rails. Matt and I made heavy use of Github and Lighthouse during development and have had a lot of fun with it. I am mainly responsible for the interface while Matt gets credit for pretty much all of the functionality.
Please let me know what you think!