Bukluv is the idea for an application that I, along with Mohammed Aslam, came up with a few months ago. It is a social networking site for book lovers and allows registered users to post short reviews that are limited to 250 characters.
We’ve been playing around with a very basic version of the app in development for some time now, but we decided to code it again from scratch sometime in February, and try to release it by the first of March. Things got delayed a little bit and we finally deployed it last weekend.
As of now, the application is very basic, and doesn’t even let users add books that aren’t on our database. We even left out commenting on others’ reviews until we could sort out the user interface, so the “social” part of this social networking site is still missing. However, we’re planning to roll out these features over the next few weeks, and we’ll start working on it again once we’ve returned from Bangalore after RubyConf ndia 2010.
Working on our own application has been great fun so far. But working on your own projects during spare time can be a difficult thing when you have a day job. It’s easy to put too much energy into your own project and then your projects at work will suffer. This is why we’ve been adding features very slowly and not work too many hours on this, so we don’t lose focus at the office.
Please do take a look at bukluv if you’re a book lover. We’d love the feedback. Let us know what you think we’re doing wrong with the application.
I’m off to catch a bus to Bangalore now. Feeling so excited about my first RubyConf. There are some great presentations scheduled, and of course, there’s the one about Project Fedena. Please do leave a comment here if you took a look at bukluv, and I’ll reply when I get back from Bangalore.