burnchart.io

Concept

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

Tasks

MVP - Community Plan

• show a list of projects and their milestones with progress & due date
• show burnchart for that project milestone
• show all issues as one size
• use localStorage to save project names
• show a milestones page where we see a table ala projects but for only one project
• create ui sketches for all app states

The 20%

• deal with Firebase timing out, are we still logged-in?
• on system-wide notifications show a button that takes us to the index unless we are on index
• mediator !app/notify/edit will edit the current notification
• slide topbar up a bit on hover so that the user can click the menu
• landing/index page needs to show (hero box) immediately
• logged-in state slides into view independent of page loading
• have a queue for loading that calls back (emits a mediator message) when it is empty and emits another one when we are busy; wrap each async operations in this doing a cb when we are done with 1
• verify that project exists on project page when fetching it remotely (add behind the scenes)
• need to show status (receiving information etc.) per repo
• provide a documentation site
• visiting a chart page saves the project if it isn't saved already
• landing page for the project and put message on my repo
• Handle 404 on routes; from catch all check if '/' or go 404 controller
• allow pushState when Firebase hosted
• progress needs to be calculated based on strategy even on homepage, then sort the milestones based on priority
• calculate left margin based on the total number of points text width
• Do not show login/logged-in state when we are still fetching that information from Firebase
• local storage is getting reset
• a bit of a freeze when fetching mbostock/d3
• Validate repo input and show a loading sign of sorts
• Check that we have not run out of requests to make
• Show loading sign on top of browser window which is unobtrusive enough we can show it immediately.
• show a countdown clock towards the end of the milestone or show overdue
• highlight for a moment recently changed milestone
• smooth animation when transitioning between icons and notifications
• show logged-in state only after it is known
• how does a message look like when we have an error and nothing to render?
• format milestone titles prepending "Milestone" word if appropriate
• Variable document.title on different pages
• be able to go back to homepage
• deal with no due date milestones - always on track
• show title on the chart page
• work for mbostock/d3
• 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
• closed issues can be moved to a newly created milestone, this messes up the chart since we assume milestone is created first!

Extras

• show animated lines when drawing the chart
• highlight changes from past fetch
• 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.
• Check location.hash is supported
• Have an app wide of triggering a URL and have named routes too
• On page load get all the latest data regardless of time_ago
• 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
• 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
• 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); for example a text like this: starts: 09-10-2014 in the description which we provide regex for
• 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
• support Jira & Gitlab
• when fetching subsequent updates, fetch only the last page of issues since some repos are large (2.5MB & 19 pages for mbostock/d3); actually that is for all issues, not milestone constrained. So only an issue if we want to see a burnchart for all the issues for a repo
• move tests from radekstepan/github-burndown-chart
• if all issue circles are close to each other, make a "master circle" that amalgamates all the issues into one large circle, makes for a prettier view
• tell people if they have no due date
• make better x-axis date display, otherwise we see all 1s.

Notes

• payment gateways in Canada: Shopify, Chargify list; I get free processing on first $1000 with Stripe
• 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
• $2.5 Node.js PaaS via Gandi with promo code PAASLAUNCH-C50E-B077-A317.
• let people vote on features they want to see fast: tally.tl.
• use readme.io for documentation

Plans

Community

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

Business

• you need to pay for a license to use the app for business purposes
• repos, milestones saved remotely
• auto-update with new information
• private repos