Mindwendel

Create a challenge. Ready? Brainstorm. mindwendel helps you to easily brainstorm and upvote ideas and thoughts within your team. Built from scratch with Phoenix.

• mindwendel
  • Features
  • Use-cases
  • Getting Started
  • Contributing
    • Workflow
    • Development
    • Testing
    • Production
      • Note
    • Build release and production docker image
    • Formatting
  • Environment Variables
    • Localization
  • Testimonials
  • Acknowledgements

Features

• 5 minute setup (It is not a joke)
• Anonymously invite people to your brainstormings - no registration needed. Usernames are optional!
• Easily create and upvote ideas, with live updates from your mindwendel members
• Cluster or filter your ideas with custom labels
• Preview of links to ease URL sharing
• Add automatically encrypted file attachments which are uploaded to an S3 compatible storage backend
• Add lanes, use drag & drop to order ideas
• Add comments to ideas
• AI-powered idea generation using OpenAI-compatible LLM APIs
• Export your generated ideas to html or csv (currently comma separated)
• German & English Translation files
• By default, brainstormings are deleted after 30 days to ensure GDPR compliancy

Use-cases

Brainstorm ...

• ... new business ideas
• ... solutions for a problem
• ... what to eat tonight
• ...

Getting Started

mindwendel can be run just about anywhere. So checkout our Installation Guides for detailed instructions for various deployments. The easiest way to deploy and run mindwendel is using our own docker-compose-prod.yml file. For instructions, see Setup for Production. If you want to contribute, jump ahead to Development!

Contributing

To get started with a development installation of mindwendel, follow the instructions below.

mindwendel is built on top of:

• Elixir
• Phoenix Framework
• Phoenix LiveView
• PostgreSQL

Workflow

1. Fork it (https://github.com/mindwendel/mindwendel/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Development

• Startup docker compose setup

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