Gameplan

Open Source Discussions Platform for Remote Teams

Gameplan

Gameplan is an async-first discussions tool for remote teams. It encourages thoughtful communication and deep-thinking.

Motivation

We've been remote first since day one, but as our team grew, chat tools like Telegram fell short. Missing out on crucial conversations became a major issue. We needed a better way to keep everyone connected and in sync. That's how Gameplan was born - to solve the problems of modern remote work!

Key Features

• Thread-first discussions: Gameplan lets you start a discussion and have people comment on it at their own pace, encouraging thoughtful conversation and deep thinking. No more feeling obligated to be online all the time.

• Spaces for organization: Spaces help you categorize conversations by project, team, client, or topic – whatever makes sense for your team's workflow. This keeps discussions tidy and easy to find.

• Customizable profiles: Get a better picture of who's on your team with profiles that let everyone showcase their personality: cover images, short bios, and profile pictures.

• Pages for note-taking: Use pages as digital notes to jot down meeting minutes, proposals, ideas – whatever sparks creativity! They can be private by default or shared with just your team or specific spaces.

Under the hood

Backend

• Frappe Framework: A full-stack web application framework written in Python and Javascript. The framework provides a robust foundation for building web applications, including a database abstraction layer, user authentication, and a REST API.

• Frappe UI: A Vue-based UI library, to provide a modern user interface. The Frappe UI library provides a variety of components that can be used to build single-page applications on top of the Frappe Framework.

• Redisearch: A powerful text search and secondary indexing engine built on top of Redis. It powers Gameplan's fast search capabilities.

Production setup

Managed Hosting

You can try Frappe Cloud, a simple, user-friendly and sophisticated open-source platform to host Frappe applications.

It takes care of installation, setup, upgrades, monitoring, maintenance and support of your Frappe deployments. It is a fully featured developer platform with an ability to manage and control multiple Frappe deployments.

Development setup

Docker

You need Docker, docker-compose and git setup on your machine. Refer Docker documentation. After that, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/frappe/gameplan
cd gameplan/docker
docker-compose up

Wait for sometime until the setup script creates a site. After that you can access http://localhost:8000 in your browser and Gameplan's login screen should show up.

Use the following credentials to log in:

• Username: [email protected]
• Password: 123

Local

Currently, this app depends on the develop branch of frappe.

1. Setup frappe-bench by following this guide
2. In the frappe-bench directory, run bench start and keep it running. Open a new terminal session and cd into frappe-bench directory.
3. Run the following commands:

   bench new-site gameplan.test
   bench get-app gameplan
   bench --site gameplan.test install-app gameplan
   bench --site gameplan.test add-to-hosts
   bench --site gameplan.test browse --user Administrator

4. Now, open a new terminal session and cd into frappe-bench/apps/gameplan, and run the following commands:

   yarn
   yarn dev
   

5. Now, you can access the site on vite dev server at http://gameplan.test:8080

Links

• Report Bugs: If you find any bugs, feel free to report them on GitHub Issues tab.
• Discuss: Join if you have a feature request or hangout with other Gameplan users.