Thanks for visiting dunkbonds.com, the dormant Rails app I built to gamify charitable contributions toward personal goals, piloted around my goal to dunk. You'll notice I have made zero effort to update its style, so it still harkens back to its original 2011-era mint.com inspiration, when it was likely already looking pretty dated. Have a click around!
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September 13, 2012

What's Coming Soon on dunkbonds.com

People tell me they visited the site and read the story.  They may even say they like it, and that I may have explained the concept well.  I appreciate that, even if they're lying, and my next question is whether they signed in and checked out the insides.  "Oh, no. I didn't sign up yet."

It happens a lot.

I get it, though.  Having to put in your email can be a bit of a commitment, and little as that may seem to ask of someone, even for a friend, it's a barrier.  

 

Guest User Functionality

The simple solution is the guest user, so folks can easily get in, poke around the site, and read up on the goal and blog posts from within www.dunkbonds.com (rather than through blogspot, which has been a confusing but necessary evil thus far), delaying registration until a user is really ready to support the goal and buy a bond or two.

If I can find more than a few hours every several weeks, it'll be done in no time.

Next after that will be adding a facebook login using omniauth, which seems simple, but may be tricky for users who have already signed in with email.  More facebook integration to follow, perhaps, but other features may compete for my attention.