Collaborate with Clusterify

• collaboration
• development

One of my strong beliefs is that there are enough good ideas in the world to go around, and thus sharing those ideas early is a good thing. That is the whole premise surrounding my idea of Concept Buzz and it would appear the folks over at clusterify have a similar belief.

So what is clusterify?
From my observations it is a collaborative platform for developing small applications together with individuals that have a similar skill-set and interest. More information can be found on the Clusterify concepts page.

Clusterify Features
Clusterify has the following features which make it quite a nice platform to use:

• Voting – Once you propose a project on clusterify, other people on the site vote on whether they think it is a good idea or not. The idea being that once you have a groundswell of support for your project, you should then get your team together and knock out your project.
• Project Membership – If someone likes a project, they should vote for it. If they like a project and feel they have the time and skills to contribute to building that project, then they should join the project. The idea of the site is to collaborate with other developers, not just go solo.
• Karma – Karma is a concept that is implemented on a number of sites, and as per my post on twitter karma and kudos is prevalent in most social media. Karma in clusterify is a rating based on the number of projects that you have completed, and additionally the quality of those completed projects (not sure exactly how that works – feel free to comment on this guys).
• Events – I really like this one, and married with two kids “mature coders” should jump on board with this – given of course we get permission from our better halves The idea is that you can organise an event in which many people will collaborate together to deliver a project. Now the event can be held in a physical location or virtually, either way, events are a great way to get a bit of buzz happening.

Is it right for me?
If you are someone that is interested in doing some social coding (with the potential of growing that into something more perhaps), and you don’t feel you have to keep all your ideas secret (heck I’ve got more than I have time) then Clusterify really is worth a look. It could use a lick of paint, but in terms of functionality it’s great.

Concept Buzz on Clusterify
Well I created a project page for Concept Buzz on clusterify, so if you would like to see it get built or be part of building it, then free free to vote or join up.