imagine-mate

Summary

imagine-mate is a community service for writing clubs.

Status

Live. Visitors sign up on the web and start to use it immediately.

Problem

• People who write alone often lose the motivation to write regularly.
• A typical message board only collects posts. It does not make writing together fun.
• A writing club selects a topic, collects entries, and votes on the results. The organizers do this work by hand.
• Writers keep notes and drafts in many different tools. This breaks their workflow.

Solution

imagine-mate turns the workflow of a real writing club into features.

• Small contests: A club starts a short writing contest. The contest moves through these stages: recruit, write, vote, review, close. The service manages the topic vote and the results.
• Writer notes: Writers organize notes with folders and tags. A writer can change a note into a post in one step.
• Feed: Writers publish posts. Readers reply with comments, nested replies, and likes.
• Groups and series: Users make groups for shared interests. Writers publish stories in episodes.
• Progress rewards: Points, levels, writing streaks, and badges help writers write regularly.
• Notifications: In-app notifications and web push tell users about new comments and contest news.
• Admin console: The operator manages users, posts, contests, notices, and terms in one console.
• Sign-in: Users sign in with the nimuni account.

Technology

Results

• The features follow the real workflow of a writing club.
• The service is live now.
• nimuni plans, designs, develops, deploys, and operates the service alone.