Gr.egario.us Done Right

Posted by ryan
at 4:30 AM on Monday, November 20, 2006

I just ran across an almost exact functional clone of my RailsDay entrant, Gr.egario.us over at Quotiki. I’d say the design is much better than what I was able to do, although they don’t yet have the ability to put quotes on your own site like gr.egario.us offers.

Is that the sound of bitterness you hear? Not at all – in fact I’d love to pull gr.egario.us down at some point so please take a look at Quotiki for your future needs. My only question is – was Quotiki written in a day?

If any of the Quotiki folks want to look at how easy it is to write in Rails, let me know and I can shoot the source over to you. The only thing more satisfying than a Java-to-Rails conversion is a .NET-to-Rails conversion.

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  1. alex – November 20, 2006 @ 05:04 AM
    i think the quotiki Design is far away from being better... The important part of a side that is build around quotes are the quotes and quotiki has so much noise around. the quotes seem to be a minor point aside the social network stuff.. i think you did it right.. :-)
  2. Ryan Daigle – November 20, 2006 @ 06:09 AM
    My simple 'design' is applauded! Thanks, alex :)
  3. Jon Maddox – November 20, 2006 @ 11:01 AM
    Ha, nice. I hadn't seen either of these. I actually have a prototype Quote site sitting in my repository from my early days of learning rails. I find myself IMing quotes all the time and always thought this kind of site would be useful. I didn't know others followed through :) Awesome.
  4. Shawn – November 20, 2006 @ 11:18 AM
    I'm impressed with what you did in one day with Rails for your RailsDay entry. I thought Quotiki was much cleaner than most quote sites, but you have clean down to a science. I had no idea you site existed. We are both .NET guys, and we built the base of Quotiki.com pretty quick using that technology, just not in one day. We thought about using Rails, but went with Microsoft .NET, MS-SQL, and their AJAX framework. We actually have some exciting ways to display quotes for people in the works and have partnered up with WordPress and PageFlakes to name a couple. Visit 3terra.com to contact us. I'd love to talk a bit more with you offline.
  5. Mark – November 20, 2006 @ 02:59 PM
    I like the colors of quotiki more, but the empahsis on gregarious is much more appropriate. It's harder to find the quotes on quotiki, where as gregarious your eyes flow right to the meaningful content (namely the quotes!).
  6. Ryan Daigle – November 20, 2006 @ 03:16 PM
    Thanks Mark - I guess my lack of design skillz has some benefit after all.
  7. pengshourong@gmail.com – November 30, 2006 @ 03:25 PM
    Awesome work! From theraislsway.com,i knew GTD Tracks project and u,and i love all about u have done! i think "small is beautiful ,less is beautiful",and so,i do not agree with "lack of design skillz"" :) it will be a beautiful thing if you can add"random quote"fuction,with which you can put quotes on any site at anywhere:title,page or status bar ,which will auto change one quote to another when the user fresh the brower or in a specific interval automatically, to gregarious. btw:i am a chinese rails fan, and i want to built a similar site for the chinese world, i'd love the worker ! would you please share " gregarious project" 's source code with me ?--DRY:) Waiting for u email,thanks a lot!
  8. Ryan Daigle – December 01, 2006 @ 05:06 AM
    Just sent an email your way - the source is available to anybody who wants it...