Esten Hurtle's blog

StoriTell

–January 6, 1:06 p.m.–

This is the main page on the StoriTell site.

The comments section on StoriTell.

A list of the stories and their upvotes on the Android application.

The story detail page on the StoriTell Android application.

StoriTell is an online service that lets you tell stories about your life completely anonymously. This is primarily accomplished through a website, storitell.com. When a user submits a story, it is checked for spam using the TypePad Anti-Spam API (similar to Akismet) and posted to the site, no username or password required. IP address logs are cleared from the server once every 24 hours to ensure anonymity.

There are currently almost 170 stories on the site, and new ones are usually added every week.

In reading stories, users can vote them up or comment. Users can vote up stories once every day, and comment as much as they'd like. The comment system is community moderated for the most part. When a comment is down-voted more than a few times, the site admin gets an email. After five downvotes, the comment disappears. This ensures that commenting will be constructive.

I also wrote a StoriTell Android app, which is available in the Android Market, here. I wrote an API for StoriTell, and this application queries it to get data. As of now, the app is a simple story reader and does not have posting capabilities.

This is a Django application, with a PostgreSQL database.

The source for the site is available on GitHub, here.

The source for the app is available on GitHub too, here.