I’ve been working on a website for a couple weeks. BOFA and Drew helped me out a lot with the design and the back end is run by an amazing open source piece of software called Drigg, which is based on the Drupal CMS. The idea for the whole site came from some email chats with Whit, Drew, BOFA and Calle, so many thanks to them for their responses. I just started inviting people to start using it and things have been going pretty well so far. The site works exactly like Digg except the content is focused on the Ultimate Frisbee community and I think people like the content they see, but they’re not exactly grasping the voting idea. Hopefully that will come in time.
I’ve had the idea for an ultimate related website for a while, but just couldn’t think of the right way to do it. I was hoping to do an ultimate related blog, and thats still a possibility, but I just haven’t had the time to organize the people to get that done. Creating a blog that would be successful would take a lot of time by a small amount of people or a lot of people willing to write fairly regularly. I know I don’t have the time to do that right now. I think the people are out there to get it done, I just need to track them down and get everything organized.
Anyway, there’s been a lot of ultimate content being created in the past year. Lots of blogs, photos, videos and more and more ultimate related news stories from lots of different places. Also, people are getting tired of the spam and ridiculousness on RSD. The one thing that was missing was a place to organize all of that content, which is how I came up with the idea for BananaCut. The plan so far is to get the ball rolling with a closed invite only format for now. Then when things start getting updated more frequently, to announce the site to the masses via RSD and go from there. If anyone reading this wants to join, just leave a comment and I’ll send you along an invite.
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