burnchart.io

Concept

GitHub Burndown Chart as a service. Public repos are free, for private access auth via GitHub and pay.

Tasks

MVP

• landing page allows you to immediately jump into action
• show chart for the current milestone, default to the first one returned and allow to choose a custom one
• sort projects based on their closest due dates
• show only repo name if all projects are under our name
• show all issues as one size
• use local storage to save information about us, but keep the API open for Firebase

The 20%

• Do not show login/logged-in state when we are still fetching that information from Firebase
• Handle 404 on routes; from catch all check if '/' or go 404 controller
• Variable document.title on different pages
• In add a project form autocomplete on my username, orgs I am member of and repos I have access to
• Someone might create a public repo, add it to the system and switch it to private; need to check repo priviledges at runtime; or when asking for auth, one would choose either public OR public/private, but this could get confusign.
• Make sure the padding fits throughout the interface; we have user-select on elements.
• Validate repo input and show a loading sign of sorts
• When fetching repo say if no perms to access or does not exist
• Check location.hash is supported
• Have an app wide of triggering a URL and have named routes too
• Check that we have not run out of requests to make
• Deal with running out of GH API requests
• Since persistence is async, deal with the flicker (show laoding?) when we are still getting data
• On page load get all the latest data regardless of time_ago
• Show loading sign on top of browser window which is unobtrusive enough we can show it immediately.

Extras

• rotate between percentage progress and points left
• be able to config options through UI that currently have to be hardcoded in config
• cache repos in localStorage for those that do not use GitHub login
• allow people to go straight to a URL that fetches the repo, if public, for them; to demo our app without adding a repo (add it behind the scenes); req cache repos
• choose your own strategy for naming issues, e.g. all issues are one size
• choose your own theme
• custom milestone start dates
• show burndown chart for all milestones
• handle Enterprise editions of GH (signed up in gh dev program)
• auto-update the chart (with delay when no activity) when logged-in
• show a countdown clock towards the end of the milestone or show overdue
• add weekly velocity across all projects and a bar chart to that effect
• show a little lightning and a number for today's velocity
• show burnchart only for your tasks; this would be a second category of projects & tasks in the dashboard
• show an overall text-based status like: all projects on time etc.
• until GH fix milestone start date then provide an option to specify it (either do that on GH server or locally)
• work on mobile devices
• show velocity number for each member of the team in the corner of the layout
• show velocity for all team members and how it progresses through time
• points collector - give medals for 1st 3 spots in terms of velocity
• show past commits or due dates like in this calendar
• allow people to submit suggestions via GitHub Issues
• find a way where, as a group, we can share repo data by trusting the other repo members that use our platform

Notes

• payment gateways in Canada: Shopify, Chargify list
• start people on a Community plan showing them a comparison table to upgrade to a better offering
• community (open source, local storage), business (private repos, firebase)
• keep discussion going via gitter
• credit card form ux from Designmodo
• workers: using a free instance of IronWorker and assuming 5s runtime each time gives us a poll every 6 minutes. Zapier would poll every 15 minutes but already integrates Stripe and FB.
• worst case scenario I provide even Small Business plan for free and provide a better experience

Plans

Community

• your repos are saved locally
• no auto-updates to milestones, everything fetched on page load
• no private repos

Business

• repos, milestones saved remotely
• auto-update with new information
• private repos