CharityVid allows anybody to donate to a charity of their choice absolutely free, no credit card required. The only thing we ask is that they watch a short sponsored YouTube video, and that's it.
I've been working on CharityVid for a couple months now, and now finally I'm putting it out there for the world to see. Building it has been extremely interesting from both a business and technical perspective, and I plan to start a mini series here about some of the key technical details that make up the site. I plan on covering:
- using an AWS load balancer
- server performance configurations
- Zero downtime deploys
- front end performance (page load) optimizations
- logging, and server monitoring
- unit testing
and a few more topics (I'll probably combine a few together). CharityVid has been my first large project to make it all the way from inception to production and I can't wait to see how it turns out.
Check it out! Let me know what you think.
Is there a reason that Facebook login is required? It's probably turning away some potential users (myself included).
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree that having the option to login without Facebook would be beneficial, however the biggest issue is preventing bots/spammers from taking advantage of the system. The site is built on an advertiser user trust relationship, and maintaining that trust is extremely important to the site. I may in the future add a phone based authentication system (using Twilio), but for now Facebook provides an easy way to verify people really are people.
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