Everybody meet Lovd, Lovd meet Everybody March 17th, 2008

Posted by Allan Branch

Last night, after many hours of labor we birthed Lovd. He entered the world around midnight. With 1201 lines of code and 940 words (not lines, words) of CSS. LovdbyLess is an open source social network, written on rails. You can adopt this infant piece of code and mature it into whatever social app you wish. We brought Lovd into the world because we saw a need for an open source social network. While we don’t believe that the world needs another social network, we do believe that most sites can benefit from some sort of social interaction, software is about communication after all. Now everyone has a platform they can write their application on without worrying about these details, you can concentrate on your app. We just want to help people get off on the right foot. We wrote LovdByLess for you.

Here are some of the features:

  • Follow a user, mutual following is friending.
  • User-to-User Messaging
  • Profile Comments
  • User Blogs with Comments
  • Photo Gallery with Captions
  • Site Search for Friends
  • Profile Bio and Information
  • User Dashboard (Recent Activity of Friends)
  • Emailed Activity
  • Flickr Integration
  • YouTube Integration

Here is the Download link.

If you want to see the first website written on the Lovd platform, check out Imitate Life.
Posted by Allan Branch

10 Responses to “Everybody meet Lovd, Lovd meet Everybody”

  1. Karmen commented
    On March 17th, 2008 at 02:27 PM

    Fun stuff! Thanks for commoditizing social network sites. ;)

  2. molly commented
    On March 18th, 2008 at 12:20 PM

    very cool! ;) I’m checking out imitatelife.com right now. right up my alley.

  3. jake commented
    On March 18th, 2008 at 02:16 PM

    i love it !!!

  4. Shaho commented
    On March 18th, 2008 at 02:44 PM

    Fantastic !, Go ahead!

  5. Dr Nic commented
    On March 21st, 2008 at 02:32 AM

    Had a play with it – looks wonderful

  6. On March 22nd, 2008 at 03:19 PM

    a-m-a-z-i-n-g!!

    Are you planning to put it under a version control? How about Github/Gitorious?

  7. Nobody commented
    On March 26th, 2008 at 09:22 PM

    Any chance you are going to make this xhtml compliant?

  8. Allan Branch commented
    On March 26th, 2008 at 09:26 PM

    Hey Nobody, I think there’s a couple br’s that need to be changed in the footer that keep it from validating.

  9. Steven Bristol commented
    On March 26th, 2008 at 10:04 PM

    @Jony: http://github.com/stevenbristol/lovd-by-less/tree/master

    @Nobody: Feel free to xhtml it and submit a patch!

  10. Neil commented
    On March 29th, 2008 at 05:20 AM

    Have you thought about setting up a google group for this? Would be good to have a place where we can discuss hacking the platform, which is kind of the whole point behind Lovd.

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