OMA: One Month App

Kickoff

Today, we officially start the one month period. As to most things, we're gradually getting things started before we get full blown into design and development. After lunch we decided to have a quick kickoff meeting to get everyone on same page, and go over the basics of what the app is going to be. Using our favorite outlining tool, we mapped out the basic architecture of the application (see screenshot below).

As we've stated before, this application is all about simple cash flow management, and really the entire app revolves around that. If you take the most basic elements of cash flow, it revolves around Expenses and Income with other secondary functions like making them recurring items and categorizing them by client and tags. The other main areas of the application are mainly management geared more than anything else:

• We'll have to figure out a quick way to add clients and projects, and we also want to make Basecamp integration extremely easy as well.
• Obviously, we're gonna need Users so that the cash flow is easy to share between several people. We'll also probably need some kind of permission levels for the users.
• Lastly, we'll need the typical Account settings that has your basic information and the ability to delete your account.

So, that's pretty much day one. Next up will be for myself to start digging into the design. We always start with the design of the application as it will drive how the app comes together and functions. Stephen and Nate will start into database models and getting the Rails application infrastructure in place.

Ready. Set. Go!