Dinnertable.chat

A debate platform for the general public

In today’s polarizing environment it can be hard to have thoughtful discussions between different ideologies. DTC is a debate platform that matches you with your political opposite to playfully challenge perspectives.

Jonathan Dunlap Founder

October 4, 2018

Show IH: Dinnertable.chat - live matchmaking debate platform!

Hey folks, I just launched our landing page! https://dinnertable.chat I've been a long time stalker of Indie Hackers and finally got inspired to work fu...

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October 1, 2018

Splash page launched

We've officially launched the new home page with the new branching and marketing. We also took some time optimizing and reduced the page load time by nearly 3x compared to the internal beta last week.

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Dinnertable.chat

DTC is a virtual debate platform that matches you with your political opposite to playfully challenge ideas and perspectives.

dinnertable.chat

September 5, 2018

Multi-language support added

We're starting to move from hard coded text into an Google Spreadsheet can can be turned into i18n spec files to be dynamically loaded.

August 30, 2018

Reworked splash banner

Decided to make the home banner be a full page animation. It looks fantastic now, however we do suffer a bit of a performance hit on mobile. We may want to resist this so that on mobile the banner animation gets replaced with a static image.

August 29, 2018

Authentication added to website

I decided to run with AWS Cognito authentication using the Hosted UI flow. It took some time to implement because AWS Amplify library can be buggy and is actively a work-in-progress currently. However, we did get it working finally.