DEV Community: Subham Sahu

OneSocial: the ultimate super app for creators and their audience

Subham Sahu — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:58:00 +0000

Overview of My Submission

The problem

We all have the potential to be creators and service providers, but it's true that we currently don't have a single platform that satisfies all our needs. Creators are currently forced to work with multiple websites; for example, they need a dedicated site just to manage a blog with a newsletter, a website to chat and have online meetings, a platform to sell digital products and services, a portal to broadcast all events & meetups, and the list goes on. 😢

Because of the use of multiple websites, any creator's followers are scattered across many social media platforms, and to ensure that the latest announcement reaches them, the creator has to post the same thing repeatedly on various websites. This is very time-consuming and can also be seen as cumbersome and destructive, asking loyal followers to create an account on different platforms and subscribe. Since we're repeatedly feeding the same info to faithful supporters on different websites, it might lead them to unfollow you or even hate you.

On the other side of the aisle, if you only post on popular social platforms, some of your followers are likely to miss the critical update. This is a huge concern, and clearly, there are tradeoffs to be made.

Another problem from buyer's perspective is content discovery. There are so many nice creators, professionals, and consultants on the Internet, but we never get to know about them.

Presenting One Social

It's the super app for creators and their audience. With OneSocial, you can share your thoughts on blog, manage an active newsletter, organize events with people, and do much more.

Have some digital offerings you want to offer to users? No worries, you can sell digital products on the platform, like notion templates, design illustrations, stock images, etc. And if you offer services like video consultation, mock interviews, or resume reviews, you can list them on the app as well. Plus, with integrated chat and video streaming, you can communicate securely with anyone on the platform, including your clients.

Content discovery is a big problem. There are so many nice creators on the Internet, but we never get to know about them. OneSocial platform's discover section ranks the content from all the creators and enables users to find the thing they want.

So you, as a creator or service provider, can chill out a bit and focus more on your work instead of managing a website and having marketing campaigns.

Submission Category:

MEAN/MERN Mavericks and Microservice Mavens

Architecture Diagram

Video Explainer of My Project

Language Used

Typescript/Node.js

Link to Code

subhamX / onesocial

🚀 The super app for creators and their audience.

OneSocial

It's the ultimate super app for creators and their audience. With OneSocial, you can share your thoughts on blog, manage an active newsletter, organize events with people, and do much more.

So you, as a creator or…

View on GitHub

Live Deployment: http://onesocial.vercel.app/

onesocial.vercel.app

Application Screenshots

The following are few of the screenshots of the application.

Discover Screen

Integrated Messenger

Add new Product Listing Screen

Messages Dashboard

User Dashboard

Integrated Messenger

Collaborators

@subhamx

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[GitHub Actions] IBM Cloud Foundry Deploy

Subham Sahu — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 20:38:21 +0000

Hey there, this blog post is my submission for the actions hackathon. I will be explaining the problem at first and then will reveal the GitHub action which solves the problem. Happy Reading!

Problem

I use IBM cloud foundry to host my cloud-native applications. Every time I changed the code, I had to re-deploy it again to cloud foundry via the CLI. I wanted to automate this process. My code is hosted on GitHub, and I was surprised to see that there were no GitHub actions available to deploy to Cloud foundry.

My Workflow

To solve this problem I built IBM Cloud Foundry Deploy which is a GitHub action. It allows you to deploy 🚀 the application to IBM cloud foundry seamlessly. We can deploy runtimes of Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, ASP.NET, Tomcat, Swift and Go to Cloud Foundry.

What is Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is the industry-standard open source cloud application platform for developing and deploying enterprise cloud applications. Get started today!

For more information on IBM cloud foundry, please visit here.

Features Overview

The action supports both authentications using API key and using Username and Password.
Now you can seamlessly deploy your application to the IBM cloud foundry on every push.
The action's logic is independent of the trigger event. More precisely, most of the events that trigger the workflow like cron, push etc all are supported.

Submission Category:

DIY Deployments
Maintainer Must-Haves

Yaml File or Link to Code

Here is an example YAML snippet for the workflow to be run

name: Deploy to IBM Cloud Foundry
on:
  push:
    branches: [master]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Deploy MyApp
      uses: subhamx/ibm-cloud-foundry-deploy@master
      with:
        # For Users who have opted for auth using Email & Password
        EMAIL: ${{ secrets.USER_EMAIL }}
        PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.USER_PASSWORD }}
        # For Users who have opted for Authentication using API KEY
        API_KEY: ${{ secrets.IBM_API_KEY }}
        # Cloud Foundry API Endpoint
        CF_API_ENDPOINT: ${{ secrets.CF_API_ENDPOINT }}
        # Path to manifest.yml
        MANIFEST_FILE_PATH: './src/manifest.yml'
        # Cloud Foundry ORG Name
        ORG: ${{ secrets.ORG }}
        # Cloud Foundry Space Name for the specified ORG
        SPACE: ${{ secrets.SPACE }}

GitHub Repo

subhamX / ibm-cloud-foundry-deploy

🚀 A Github Action which allows developers to deploy the application to IBM cloud foundry seamlessly.

IBM Cloud Foundry Deploy

A github action which allows developers to automate the deploy 🚀 process to IBM cloud foundry.

What is Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is the industry-standard open source cloud application platform for developing and deploying enterprise cloud applications. Get started today!

For more information on IBM cloud foundry, please visit here.

Pre-requisites

You need to have an IBM Cloud account and a cloud foundry instance.
You can create a free IBM Cloud account here and create a new cloud foundry instance here.

Checklist

This action allows you to deploy applications built on runtimes of Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, ASP.NET, Tomcat, Swift and Go to Cloud Foundry You need to define your deployment details like number of application instances to create, the amount of memory and disk quota to allocate, and other environment variables in the manifest.yml…

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Workflow in action

Head over to this repo which hosts a simple NodeJS application, and uses this action to deploy the application to IBM Cloud on every push to master branch.

Thank You!