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mindmappr
mindmappr
by nodelay
Collaborative mind mapping tool that updates in real time.
Judging Instructions
Goto the site, create a mind map, get other to people join using the same url. Double click to create new shapes Move them around with a drag a drop Click on the text to change it
Try the same mindmap in two windows to see the real time aspect.
Who
raoulmillais
antonydenyer — London UK
tonyto — London, UK
willm — London
How
nowjs raphael express underscore jquery jade mongodb jessie
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barisbalic
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cruciallyjudgeMissing feature to link two items, looks awesome.
Add some sync problems between two windows.
samanthaquistjudgeThe visualization is great – I like how the concepts all connect along smooth curvy lines and the drag and drop is nice. I’m guessing this is designed for mapping out ideas/projects in a visual way instead of in boring lists, which is cool. I had some trouble with the functionality though – adding an idea once seemed to add several new circles to the diagram and I had trouble editing the lines to connect to different ideas. I also couldn’t get the sharing feature to work – opening my map in a new window didn’t bring up my existing map for me. With some usability work, this could be quite fun to play with and potentially useful for students or others trying to organize their thoughts visually.
therazorbladejudgeThe mind map component can be a great start for a reusable module. It needs some basic features like colors, sizes, saving maps, sharing, and the ability to control how links are made. The demo is pretty buggy, often creating multiple copies of a new shape, or changing existing shapes' text. The Mappers list makes no sense as it is a combination of both people and titles used. Also, when joining, it shows my name twice.
dj4tecjudgeGreat idea. Love it. May be adding arrows to the lines will help? When can I use this in real life? Integrating with evernote may be cool.
- contestant
Glad you enjoyed it. More control lover the connections is definitely something, we’d like to add. We hadn’t really considered integration with other cloud services, that could be really useful. We’re going to keep working on it, at least to iron out the bugs. Thanks for your feedback.
wh__l_rjudgeelectronicwhisper
contestantA couple issues I ran into:
When you join a room, you don’t get what has been previously created in that room.
Every time you create a bubble it creates extra copies of that bubble.
No way to delete bubbles or modify the connection lines.
Mappers list on the left lists bubbles, not fellow users (as I expected?)
- contestant
Thanks for your feedback, we’re leaking DB connections to mongo, which means that the pool gets starved and eventually stops persisting anything (and restoring). I added a cron job to restart node every 15 minutes, but your experience would be very much dependent on how long its been since the last app restart!
patmeenanjudgeLooks like there is a recursion bug of some kind. I entered one map and then into another and now every bubble I add creates a bunch of mappers and an exponentially growing number of bubbles.
- contestant
Thanks for your feedback. Yeah unfortunately we added a last minute change to the prompt to enable pressing enter and that introduced this bug. It works ok if you click ok though! We left a lot of the UI work too late and paid the penalty. lessons learnt for nest time, hey.
cloudheadjudgerobinduckett
contestantLiked this idea a lot guys, well done!
jamesaduncanjudgedanielleswank
contestantThis could be very useful app. The drag and drop is well executed and I really like the graceful curving lines that it’s drawing from bubble to bubble.
andrew
contestantA great start to what could be a really useful product, just needs a little bit more usability testing.
Love the visual style too
A nice smooth interface, I was surprised at how well the curved lines bend and distort during manipulation, pretty awesome. While it looks good the functionality doesn’t seem quite complete, no persistence and some bugs when joining/adding myself to map. A good effort for 48 hours however.