Hello.
I am not a programmer at all but tried with AI to create nextcloud application for swimmers and their coaches to track their progress and results.
I do not know how to test this apllication, so I wonder is there a noble person in this forum to help and move further with this application ? I want it to be tested and possibly do some corrections on it in order to be available for everyone on nextcloud app page and be used free.
What do you say ?
I can upload it or email it to person who wants to help, or any other way trough this forum.
Great idea to start getting into programming and learn stuff by doing.
I’d try to make the barrier as low as possible for others to try and interact. In the app store you can put apps with development versions, I’m not sure if you can start a new app in development status first, but this way people can directly install it from the app store.
Second hardest option, link your code archive (github, gitlab, …) directly here, so people can download from there. Then they can directly check the code, give you feedback (by bug reports, pull requests, …).
And if people see the program and the structure, a nice thing would be if you could extend this app to other sports as well in order to enlarge the community around the app…
you started a topic in development category. This category is intended for active developers of the core or apps in the Nextcloud ecosystem.
From the description in your topic, it is not clear if you are seeking help and advice about a concrete problem you have or you want to actually develop the corresponding solution.
Please specify explicitly the required information to help you best. These are:
What you want to achieve
What you have done so far
What is failing
What you expect from the forum community
Without additional information the community members cannot help you in an efficient manner. Please keep in mind that the help here in the forum are mostly based on work of volunteers and thus it is just fair to reduce the burden on them.
Regards,
christianlupus
Yes, you can. Any app is just an upload, and this can be marked as beta or such. So, yeah, you can have only one beta version of your app. But you need a beta NC instance to install then, though. Normal (stable) instances will not show the app in the appstore.
So better be clear and make it some 0.x.y version and clearly formulate you are still not stable.
If you need anything more concrete, come here. we try to give good advice as much as we can .
No, I moved it here. It was a support topic and I thought it would be more suitable here to get a bit of feedback and experience of other app developers (especially once the app is openly available).
What you want to achieve : I want users to have free application that will keep track of club swimmers with their times, paces, scores and competition records. To have some kind of graphical interface showing their progress and failures. Reason for this is non existance of this type of free application because most of clubs and swimmers exists at the edge of their financial possibilities due to non interest of other companies for sponsorship for sport. Just a small contribution to everyone, from a heart.
What you have done so far: I have made something with a help of AI, really and honestly do not know what it real is and is it working, but I have it in zip file. It is done with ch*tgpt .
What is failing: I do not know I am not a programmer at all.
What you expect from the forum community : I would like to give my baby to someone willing to develop this idea and software and put it alive as a part of nextcloud application base. Just , as I said, a small contribution from a heart for everyone.
For my whole life I am living and working by a code of free software, share and care with everyone. That is all I want.
I do have github account but mostly it is used for interacting with other people, creators of other projects for example ESP32, HAM operators, etc. So I dont know even how to upload my zip file there.
That is he main reason I am giving my idea to someone honest and willing to develop it till the end.
There are a few apps that are used by a few people and they lack maintainers. Unfortunately, there are not many people searching for project they want to take responsibility.
You don’t put a zip file, you create a git repository, and then you can sync the code on github. Git does all the version control, and it makes it easier for others to participate. Try to get familiar with git, github etc. this is not even limited to code, e.g. the Nextcloud documentation is also on github (https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation).
It can even be useful for yourself, to track changes. And once the code is public for others, it is much more appealing for others to interact with you, adding new features etc. or not.
I am considering assisting to create a git repo (under whatever name) and publish the code in the first round. Then, the question of a maintainer will soon come up. But, yeah, I am with you, but I am bound by other means until Christmas more or less. After that I would get in touch with the original author of the app to find a way into opening the source code.
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I am not a programmer at all.