Everybody meet Lovd, Lovd meet Everybody

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.

11 Comments

Karmen said on March 17, 2008

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

molly said on March 18, 2008

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

jake said on March 18, 2008

i love it !!!

Shaho said on March 18, 2008

Fantastic !, Go ahead!

Dr Nic said on March 21, 2008

Had a play with it – looks wonderful

Jony dos Santos Kostetzer said on March 22, 2008

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

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

Nobody said on March 26, 2008

Any chance you are going to make this xhtml compliant?

Allan Branch said on March 26, 2008

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

Steven Bristol said on March 26, 2008

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

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

Neil said on March 29, 2008

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.

ronan said on May 28, 2008

very very nice. thanks a lot!