I’m out in Wisconsin for the month of April working in the Sevenwire office, and getting a lot done. Including getting very close to launching Roommate App. Just cleaning some things up, and tying up some loose ends, though it feels like I’ve been doing that forever now.
My latest big change in the app has been replacing the “Dashboard” tab with a “Roommates” tab. After the last major overhaul I did with Nate where we added subdomains, some new concepts were added that I didn’t have a chance to think about within the scope of the entire app. This included the concept of Roommates playing a much bigger role in the structure of the app itself (who’da thunk?). In Rails terms, they got their own controller (though it kinda took over the Users controller). Anyway, now that I had chance to step back and look at all the concepts as a whole, I realized the whole dashboard section was just the missing index (listing) and show (details) pages from the roommates controller. So now they’re combined into one.
Also, I may be dropping the “Home settings” tab as well, which brings me down to two tabs, Bills and Roommates. How simple is that? It’s crazy how much thought has been required to make this app so simple. Hopefully other people think it is too. If not, they should see my first version. 