Announcing...
I’m proud to say my recent efforts have brought me to a public beta release of my secret project, brightlamp!
brightlamp is a daily scripture reading service. The whole thing is designed to work via e-mail to the highest extent. Meaning, the readings come to you sometime around 4 AM whenever you’ve done a reading the previous day. If you don’t read, you don’t get new e-mails. You can read your passage within the e-mail if you choose, or you can click a link to read it in the translation of your choice on Bible Gateway.
When you’re finished, you just click on the brightlamp link in the e-mail to record your progress. This logs you into the site automatically, and you have the chance to write a journal entry regarding the passage, record any prayer requests, and select your next reading (with an emphasis on sequential progress).
Features to come are community-oriented: commenting, keeping up with the progress of other people, and even following the reading progress of someone else.
Let’s keep this in “the family” for now, meaning primary readers of this blog. I think whatever is there is generally okay (and I have unit tests to prove it), but I’m not feature complete or heavily tested at this point, so I would like to wait before any significant growth happens.
And please follow instructions if/when you get the “white screen of death,” and send me an e-mail with the crash report. And more importantly, file all your ideas and requests on my shiny new feedback site. I’m using this as my bug-tracker as well, so posting a crash report there also works. You don’t even have to register with the site to post.
So, hope you enjoy it, and that something good comes from it! I’m sure I’ll have more updates as the second tier of features begins to develop.