Vonk
An idea workshop for two
The story
The idea
Joris and I have more ideas than time. They were scattered across chats and notes. Vonk is the one place where they all live, so we can pick what to build next.
The design
A drawing board: cobalt paper with a grid, thin white lines, a technical drawing of a light bulb and every idea as a numbered drawing sheet with a scale and registration marks.
Under the hood
An Express server with PostgreSQL. There are only two accounts; the starting password has to be replaced on first sign-in. Every change carries a version number, so two people never silently overwrite each other.
Signing in to Vonk, in blueprint style 
Ideas as numbered drawing sheets (with sample ideas) 
Editing an idea: type, status, description and tags
In detail
- Website or game
- Every idea is a website or a game, with tabs to filter on.
- Four statuses
- New, exploring, in progress or for later.
- Search and filter
- By text, status and who came up with the idea.
- Tags
- Up to five short tags per idea.
- History
- Who created the idea and who last changed it, and when.
- Secure
- Strict Content-Security-Policy, CSRF protection and a limit on sign-in attempts.