[ait] Chrome Extension for specific ones
So, I have two friends I used to work & hang out with. We share quite similar interests, so we send interesting links back and forth often. I thought that making bookmarks that can be shared by several people would be helpful for us, decided to make this.
this is usual way of communicating for us.
First thing that came up to my mind is the way to keep the data without running server. Several options were possible, I ended up with using google drive api. (What I found is actually spreadsheet can really work as database. I am using file inside of drive instead of spreadsheet, don't think this was the best decision.) It is really simple work once I get hang of using google drive api. It is updating the file whenever put request happens, and parse the data with the rule. I put different background in case this links is more interesting to specific one rather than whole of us. It requires sharing the file which works as database and authorizing app.
I showed this to my friends for user testing. What I found interesting is they consider this as social tool rather than just bookmarks. ( They suggests to have @toWhom function like twitter instead of having background color, and having time records) They also said that just simple note dropping app will also work for us.