I’ve been working on a new kind of software platform since about 2011, and it is just now turning into an MVP (tech startup speak for: “minimum viable product”). A week or so ago, I gave my first shot at writing a message forum app. It can be found here (it should run in any reasonably up-to-date version of Chrome or FIrefox). It uses the google app engine infrastructure on the backend. My thought was to have direct programmatic read access to the ILP database, and hook it all in somehow.