Features to include in a lan chat application
I am working on a project which is basically a Notification System or in other words sort of Lan Instant Messenger for mid-size companies, in which a person can update the status of the project (like twitter) and the others working on the same project will be notified, they can also add their comments. I am implementing it in C# & it'll be windows based application. I have been asked to include some more features in the application, so if you got any advice or suggestion in order to extend my application please do mention...
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3 Answers
You're giving a very vague overview on an idea you're working on without an actionable and answerable question about starting a company. Can you be more clear about a specific question you have about your startup?
From what I gather - You should setup a UserVoice account and let your customers vote on features. This is the easiest way to get feedback on your idea from the people who will actually buy it.
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Actually I am not making a commercial product, it is my university project and i am in Second Year doing BE CS.. – Ahmed 13 years ago
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Gotcha - You should still setup UserVoice or GetSatisfaction to collect your users' thoughts and integrate those into the your project to make for a much better application that people will use. If you listen to the people who are using it, you'll have a better idea of what to build and what not to build. – Andy Cook 13 years ago
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Thanks Andy .. but the real problem is I have got only one day left to submit the proposal, anyways I will be using these in my future works.. – Ahmed 13 years ago
Im not going to write a full prd for you, but here are some features that would be nice to have:
- An application like this begs to be written in Adobe air. Adobe air allows for socket programming, and will support a greater market including MACs. The reason this is quite critical is that it will allow you to have an additional selling point, and will actually allow to cater to schools, design firms, and others that may have a few macs or be mac only.
- Group chat, this is important for online collab.
- To dos, assignments, and tasks (with heiarchy or parent tasks)
- Reporting - Progress, estimations, etc
- Work clock. Great for sub contractors, where you have them Punch in and out. Plus good to have if you are the type of guy who likes to goof off on sites like this while at work.
- Centeralized server sync. (again air with rest would be a good fit)
- FREE, + ad supported pricing model. Or a more robust version for a monthly fee. (try to host this yourself rather than requing an install of the server app)
- Theming, and a very elegant UI. (sizzle sells)
- Intergration, try to have an open api for messaging. It would be cool if my web app could create a task and assign it to the right person based on an event.
- Drop the twitter.
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Thanks frank for the list of features, I can't add all of them to my application but although I will try to add some of them. Actually it is a course project so I am bound to write it in c++ or c#. – Ahmed 13 years ago
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Write the rest services in C#, the rest in HTML5, JS. – Frank 13 years ago
A feature I would like to see is the ability to set up this application without any centralized server apart from a file server. This would ease the setup enormously in many companies.
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I was thinking of developing it as peer to peer, but problem is I read that its a little bit hard to develop a peer-to-peer application some complexities might arise and as this is my first network related application so I decided it'd be better if I first make it as a client-server model. – Ahmed 13 years ago
