MEMEMAKER

This is my week 4 homework assignment for Dynamic Web. Built using NodeJS, Express and Bootstrap. Based off of John Schimmel’s Valentine Card Maker.

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dynamic web project idea: instagram —> tumblr

For the last few days, I’ve struggled to come up with a compelling idea for a project for my Dynamic Web class. Ultimately, I decided that instead of worrying about what might be useful/interesting/zeitgeisty, I should just build a web application that I myself would use. So here’s the idea that I settled on: an application that automatically sends posts that appear in your Instagram stream to your Tumblr dashboard. While Instagram has an active community, at present, there’s no way to browse your Instagram stream other than via the official iPhone app and a handful of unofficial (and oftentimes buggy) web clients. Tumblr, meanwhile, has built an easy-to-use dashboard that’s ideal for browsing content in reverse-chronological order and my sense is that their userbase has a good deal of overlap with Instagram’s. My idea is to create a service that would ask the user to authenticate with both his/her Instagram and Tumblr credentials and would in exchange, automatically send content (i.e. photos and metadata) from the user’s Instagram stream to Tumblr. I’ve poked around a bit in the documentation for the Instagram and Tumblr APIs and while it’s not yet clear if it will be possible to build this sort of thing, hopefully, I will be able to figure out a way to make it happen over the course of the next few months.