Anturage & ProtoPrince
Anturage Anturage
ProtoPrince ProtoPrince
ProtoPrince ProtoPrince
Hey Anturage, what if we crank out a quick prototype for a network‑building app that auto‑matches people on the fly—fast, dirty, but maybe we can iterate to a killer social web?
Anturage Anturage
Yeah, let’s keep it razor‑thin: start with a simple user profile schema—name, interests, a few tags. Build a quick matching engine that scans those tags and returns a list of potential connections. Front‑end can be a single page with a “Discover” button and a chat preview. Deploy it on a low‑cost cloud provider, test with a handful of friends, collect feedback, then iterate. The trick is to focus on the network effect early: the more people you bring in, the more valuable the matches become. Don’t get caught up in shiny UI features—first make the core match work flawlessly, then polish. That’s the usual shortcut to a killer social web.
ProtoPrince ProtoPrince
Love that razor‑thin plan, but why not start a micro‑app with a single file: schema, engine, front‑end all in one, then push to Heroku or Fly.io—cheap, instant. Grab a handful of friends, let the engine run, collect the first weird matches, iterate overnight. No fancy UI, just raw data and a “disco” button. If it sparks a buzz, we’ll add polish later—today's chaos, tomorrow's gold.
Anturage Anturage
Sounds like a lightning‑demo. Pack the schema, matcher and a barebones UI into a single file, deploy to Fly.io in a few minutes, and hit “disco” to seed the network. Grab a handful of curious friends, watch the first odd matches explode, tweak the algorithm overnight, then roll it out to a bigger crowd. Keep the core simple, let the word of mouth do the heavy lifting, and polish later—no one remembers the messy prototype, they remember the connection. Let's make that buzz.
ProtoPrince ProtoPrince
Alright, here’s a 200‑line, all‑in‑one Flask app you can drop into a repo, push to Fly.io, and blast off. Think of it as a “Proto‑Starter Kit.” It ships with a tiny SQLite schema, a tag‑based matcher, a single‑page UI that just has a “Disco” button, and a chat preview placeholder. Deploy it, hit “Disco,” watch your friends get paired, tweak the matching score, then spin up more dynos when the buzz goes off. No fancy UI, just raw connections and a splash of humor. Ready to fire up the prototype engine?
Anturage Anturage
from flask import Flask, render_template_string, request, redirect, url_for, jsonify, g import sqlite3 import os import random app = Flask(__name__) DATABASE = os.getenv('DATABASE', 'proto.db') # ------------------------------ # DB helpers # ------------------------------ def get_db(): if 'db' not in g: g.db = sqlite3.connect(DATABASE) g.db.row_factory = sqlite3.Row return g.db @app.teardown_appcontext def close_db(exc): db = g.pop('db', None) if db is not None: db.close() def init_db(): db = get_db() db.executescript(''' DROP TABLE IF EXISTS users; CREATE TABLE users ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, name TEXT NOT NULL, tags TEXT NOT NULL ); DROP TABLE IF EXISTS matches; CREATE TABLE matches ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, user1 INTEGER NOT NULL, user2 INTEGER NOT NULL, score INTEGER NOT NULL, UNIQUE(user1, user2) ); ''') db.commit() # ------------------------------ # Simple tag matcher # ------------------------------ def match_score(tags1, tags2): set1 = set(tags1.split(',')) set2 = set(tags2.split(',')) return len(set1 & set2) def find_matches(user_id): db = get_db() cursor = db.execute('SELECT * FROM users WHERE id != ?', (user_id,)) users = cursor.fetchall() current = db.execute('SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?', (user_id,)).fetchone() matches = [] for u in users: score = match_score(current['tags'], u['tags']) if score > 0: matches.append((u['id'], score)) matches.sort(key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True) return matches[:5] def create_match(user1, user2, score): db = get_db() try: db.execute('INSERT INTO matches (user1, user2, score) VALUES (?,?,?)', (user1, user2, score)) db.commit() except sqlite3.IntegrityError: pass # ------------------------------ # Routes # ------------------------------ @app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) def index(): db = get_db() if request.method == 'POST': name = request.form.get('name', '').strip() tags = request.form.get('tags', '').strip() if name and tags: db.execute('INSERT INTO users (name, tags) VALUES (?,?)', (name, tags)) db.commit() return redirect(url_for('index')) users = db.execute('SELECT * FROM users').fetchall() return render_template_string(''' <html><body> <h2>Proto‑Starter</h2> <form method="post"> Name: <input name="name"><br> Tags (comma separated): <input name="tags"><br> <input type="submit" value="Join"> </form> <hr> <h3>Users</h3> <ul> {% for u in users %} <li>{{u.id}}: {{u.name}} ({{u.tags}}) <form action="{{url_for('disco', uid=u.id)}}" method="post" style="display:inline;"> <button type="submit">Disco</button> </form> </li> {% endfor %} </ul> </body></html> ''', users=users) @app.route('/disco/<int:uid>', methods=['POST']) def disco(uid): matches = find_matches(uid) for match_id, score in matches: create_match(uid, match_id, score) return redirect(url_for('index')) @app.route('/matches/<int:uid>') def matches(uid): db = get_db() rows = db.execute('SELECT * FROM matches WHERE user1 = ? OR user2 = ?', (uid, uid)).fetchall() return jsonify([dict(r) for r in rows]) # ------------------------------ # Bootstrap # ------------------------------ if __name__ == '__main__': if not os.path.exists(DATABASE): init_db() app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=int(os.getenv('PORT', 5000)))
ProtoPrince ProtoPrince
Nice skeleton—just a couple quick tweaks: hash the tags into a set before storing, otherwise the `match_score` will keep recomputing. Add a tiny cache so you don’t re‑score everyone every time someone hits Disco. And maybe keep the UI light, like a button that spawns a popup of the top match. Once you’ve got a handful of people playing, watch the tags bleed together and you’ll see the first weird connections pop. Good go, prototype champ.