It’s awesome to see that more Dead Dops come in every day! We are counting 20 Dead Drops worldwide now, which equals ca. 40 GB of file-sharing storage ;-) Thx to everybody participating in this project! Keep up the good work!

In the meanwhile I want to share some thoughts on our database plans. First a disclaimer: Yes, we are all spoiled with high end Ajax/Java real time platforms of the social web. Dead Drops is not a start up nor a VC funded project etc. Right now there is only Anrew K. (thx man! you re awesome!) dedicating his free time coding PHP/Mysql to build up the DD database while already in use. This is not the usual way to go public with such a project but all you guys out there made me/us jump into cold water :-) This means all the features listed below will be added step by step. It also might be necessary that you ll need to re-submit at a certain point etc … please bare with us! (We’re not FB or Google but maybe will take over their data centers in the future ;-)

Our plans for the database / site are:

• Basic user sign up (just screenname, email and password. we don’t want to collect any personal data!)
• After sign in you ll be able to submit, edit and update your babies (DDs)
• More and also large images. (Images are important! W ll have competitions! :-)
• Dead Drop status field: up/down/gone. Editable by all signed in dead droppers
• Comments
• Search

Nice to have for the future would be:

• Multiple language support ( I got already many translation offers!)
• Open Street Map instead of Google Maps
• Support for mobile devices
• Open API for integration in other platforms
• Rating: best spot, best pictures, best cementing job, best story …

Now it s your turn! What do you think? Proposals?
I opened up a pad where we can dicuss and extend the wishlist!
If you’re a coder and want to be involved hit me up!

Discuss here!