Building A Friend Inviter Feature For CrazyEngineers

@thebigk • Oct 26, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

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CEans,

It's time to take CE forward and as many of you have suggested over a period of time, that we can have a feature to invite your friends. Building this feature will require some hardcore knowledge of our existing system, PHP, MYSQL, JS knowledge.

I'm looking to build a team of 2-3 CEans who're ready to take up the challenge and deliver fantastic friend inviter which would benefit entire CE Community. Of course, you'd get compensated for your time.

We can build teams that operate remotely, so your current location on Earth does not matter.

Interested CEans can reply here so that we can get started as soon as possible.

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Dancer_Engineer

@dancer-engineer-EJ8rGI • Dec 15, 2011

That would be a cool feature! 👍
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Ankita Katdare

@abrakadabra • Dec 15, 2011

Folks, why not the spread the word?
This is one interesting project that can be worked upon online collaboratively.
😀
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 16, 2011

There's however a little caution we'll have to take. We're *not* a social networking website. So if our inviter sends email to all contacts from our address book; then it would simply be called as spamming. Instead, we should develop it in such a way that it will let us choose who we want to invite, along with a personal message.

If we get master coders, the inviter shouldn't take more than 2-3 weeks to get ready.
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 16, 2011

No one taking up the challenge? 😨
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Dancer_Engineer

@dancer-engineer-EJ8rGI • Dec 16, 2011

The_Big_K
We're *not* a social networking website.
Yeah, very glad there is no 'add a friend' feature to CE. 😁

The_Big_K
No one taking up the challenge? 😨
Don't know PHP coding.
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 16, 2011

We've a 'follow' feature that makes sense. It allows every engineer to follow another engineer and build followers. The invite feature will enable every engineer 'invite' their fellow engineers to the site so that we can build a powerhouse of ideas & some real-world projects.

My focus for the next two-three months is going to be expanding CE beyond discussions.

If no one's taking this up, I think we'll have to find external coders.
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Dancer_Engineer

@dancer-engineer-EJ8rGI • Dec 16, 2011

Yes, I have used the 'follow' feature. 😛

Good Luck with the CE expansion. 👍
Looking forward to it! 😀
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Love king

@love-king-yFIIya • Dec 16, 2011

may i help you mr.the_big_k.................
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 16, 2011

Love king
may i help you mr.the_big_k.................
Great! Let's get in touch via email. Drop me an email with links to your existing work & resume on admin [at] crazyengineers [dot] com.
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 16, 2011
Update:

I did a study of how the current invite systems work. I want to know would you want to invite your friends by -
1. Entering their email address & sending a personal message to them OR
2. Fetching your contacts (in a secure way, of course) and then selecting who you want to send invite to.
I'd really appreciate your quick feedback.
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Dancer_Engineer

@dancer-engineer-EJ8rGI • Dec 16, 2011
The_Big_K
Update:

I did a study of how the current invite systems work. I want to know would you want to invite your friends by -
1. Entering their email address & sending a personal message to them OR
2. Fetching your contacts (in a secure way, of course) and then selecting who you want to send invite to.
I'd really appreciate your quick feedback.
2nd option with and/or without PM.
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 16, 2011

Dancer_Engineer
2nd option with and/or without PM.
Thanks!

What about other CEans? Would you appreciate this feature?
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Love king

@love-king-yFIIya • Dec 16, 2011

ya i also choose second option it's best way to invite friend .
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Ankita Katdare

@abrakadabra • Dec 16, 2011

I like the 2nd option too. There should be a way of fetching contacts separately from Gmail, Yahoo, Twitter Followers, Facebook friends etc.
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Harshad Italiya

@harshad-ukH5ww • Dec 16, 2011

I like second option but also want to give some suggestions like in my address book there are some bot-contacts so i don't want to send them invitation.

is is possible that first it fetch all the contacts then when you press 'a' it will display all the contacts starting from 'a' and from that we can choose the contacts.
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Love king

@love-king-yFIIya • Dec 16, 2011

ya it's possible. you have seen in facebook there is select friend you want to add the same, way we can use.
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lal

@lal-R60Xjx • Dec 17, 2011

Supports the second option. And I prefer an option to add a PM there.
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 17, 2011

Okay, it makes sense to first display a list of contacts and then allow user to select the ones they want to invite. I didn't get the PM feature being talked here. What exactly we'd want to do?
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lal

@lal-R60Xjx • Dec 17, 2011

By PM, I meant writing something in my own words to the friend I am sending the invitation to.

Typical invitation e-mails doesnt contain something like that, right? They just say 'your friend has invited you to join something' or the likes. It would be more realistic and promising if I invite a friend in my own words.

The invitation mail maybe of a common format along with an option to add a description about CE in our own words.
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 17, 2011

Okay, got it. Personal message looks good. I thought 'private message' aka 'conversations' we've. Personal message to users we're inviting is a must. 😀

Thank you for your suggestion.
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lal

@lal-R60Xjx • Dec 17, 2011

Oops.. I should have mentioned it more clearly 😁
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Manish Goyal

@manish-r2Hoep • Dec 17, 2011

I would like to work on this project, but i am already having lot of deadlines

Please let me know if i can be of any help 😀
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 17, 2011

goyal420
I would like to work on this project, but i am already having lot of deadlines

Please let me know if i can be of any help 😀
Where have you been? Well, we need someone who can commit to the project. But you can surely chip in whenever we need help. 😀
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Manish Goyal

@manish-r2Hoep • Dec 17, 2011

The_Big_K
Where have you been? Well, we need someone who can commit to the project. But you can surely chip in whenever we need help. 😀
I am damn busy with my projects,

BTW you want this tool as a standalone application or integrated with ce

On which software ce is currently based on?
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 17, 2011

The application will be tightly integrated with CE. The software is based on Xenforo.
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thunder9x

@thunder9x-57Vbvn • Dec 19, 2011

Hello CEians. This might be useful tool. #-Link-Snipped-#
It has also friend inviter feature.
I got credit for searching this tool. 😎

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Harshad Italiya

@harshad-ukH5ww • Dec 19, 2011

thunder9x
Hello CEians. This might be useful tool. #-Link-Snipped-#
We want to integrate it with CE, Is is Possible?

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thunder9x

@thunder9x-57Vbvn • Dec 19, 2011

I think there is already a friend inviter add-on for this. Check here: <a href="https://xenforo.com/community/threads/paid-add-on-ragtek-invite-system.10342/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">[paid add-on] Ragtek Invite System | XenForo community</a>

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 19, 2011

The invite system is already there, but it requires users to add email address manually. I think it's better if we fetch contacts and then ask members to select people they wish to invite.

Openinviter current does not have integration with XF.
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thunder9x

@thunder9x-57Vbvn • Dec 19, 2011

It would be better if all CEans go here (#-Link-Snipped-#) and fill just one line form and request OPENINVITER for Xenforo.
It is just like voting. 😀

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 19, 2011

Why not develop one on our own?
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thunder9x

@thunder9x-57Vbvn • Dec 19, 2011

I'd like both. Definitely, we'll be building our own but also let Openinviter also make their own. We'll have more choices. 😀
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Manish Goyal

@manish-r2Hoep • Apr 1, 2012

is this project running?
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