Nemex – A tiny app that helps you to track and curate ideas and projects

There&#x27;s some negativity in the early comments here, but I&#x27;d like to applaud the effort of making this a dead-simple self-hosted, FTP-friendly solution. We need more experiments around federated self-owned networks which are appealing to end users.<p>Is the code hosted somewhere on a VCS?

A fun idea, a perfect name and I like the user experience. Take the advice about security and structure seriously, but you have something worth finishing here. Pop this up on GitHub, and I expect you&#x27;ll find helpers with the code refactoring and feature requests.

Great idea, great that you shipped, now improve, improve, improve. Put the code on github and let people file issues and pull requests. Yes, many things in the code can be cleaned up, but kudos that you got it out there instead of having it run on just on your personal VPS.<p>We need more dead simple-to-install open source webapps, especially with a modern look!

The site looks nice, cool intro video and all - but when I tried it out locally (my PHP has &quot;display_errors = on&quot; and &quot;error_reporting = E_ALL&quot;), I saw error messages all over the place. &quot;A session had already been started, ignoring session_start()&quot; shows repeatedly, and various &quot;undefined variable&quot; &#x2F; &quot;undefined constant&quot; messages. Not so pretty.<p>I too applaud the author for embracing the spirit of open-source; but I think now would be a great time for him&#x2F;her to learn the super-basics of PHP (and programming in general) best practices. Develop with all errors being tracked and displayed! Don&#x27;t use undefined variables or constants! Use tutorials &#x2F; books that were written in 2014, not in 2003!

After reading the site, I&#x27;m not really sure what this is.

An idea. Okay so generally we can all agree that PHP is a very bad language, but you can use PHP to build great things too like &#x27;&#x27;dokuwiki&#x27;&#x27; for example.<p>So the idea is to package all the necessary parts of &#x27;&#x27;dokuwiki&#x27;&#x27; and make it installable by simply throwing or wgetting it into a PHP enabled dir. The first rule of software development is &quot;don&#x27;t write code, because there is already someone who solved a similar problem before you.&quot; Instead of writing a whole new blogging platform, see what you can build starting from a stripped-down &#x27;&#x27;dokuwiki&#x27;&#x27;. Using the fs as the data store is a good pattern for usability.

1. plz remove junk files from the zip file:<p><pre><code> inflating: nemex&#x2F;php&#x2F;zipProject.php inflating: __MACOSX&#x2F;nemex&#x2F;php&#x2F;._zipProject.php &lt;--- </code></pre> 2. provide a real download link --- I want to copy paste and wget from my server but when I right-click copy link I got <a href="http://beta.nemex.io/#download" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.nemex.io&#x2F;#download</a> ... I had to manually deduce the correct url is <a href="http://beta.nemex.io/php/download.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.nemex.io&#x2F;php&#x2F;download.php</a> ...

Looks like HN traffic overwhelms once again - I&#x27;m getting a 503. The cached copy isn&#x27;t particularly helpful since many of the main site images don&#x27;t display.

<a href="http://neonelephant.de/webprinter.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;neonelephant.de&#x2F;webprinter.html</a> &lt;- Use this tool to send feedback :)

&gt; nemex doesn’t need a database. This means that you can easily download the zipped package, fire up your ftp-client of choice and copy the files to any directory on your web server. As soon as you successfully uploaded them, navigate to the &#x2F;projects folder and set the permissions to 777. Open config.php in your nemex-folder and change USERNAME and PASSWORD to anything you want.<p>Ugh.

I&#x27;ve been having a change of heart when it comes to PHP recently. This kind of projects is exactly what PHP is for and is perfect for it. As ruby dev, before you start you need to do so much hand-waving that it kind of kills the joy of creation.<p>So congrats for this project and this messy creative code.

Thanks for using video in place of GIFs!

Great project. I&#x27;m definitely going to give it a shot as a Raspberry Pi hosted thing.<p>One comment on the site though - it would be really cool to be able to see a demo. I get a good vibe from the description&#x2F;images, but a demo site would be great.

The site is officially broken from an overload of HN requests.

I think it may be a good thing, but all these boggy unrequested animations are destroying my eye. Where is the play button? I don&#x27;t want animations!

I like the idea and can&#x27;t wait to try it. I was using Evernote to track down projects, but this one might be a better fit! Thanks!

This looks cool. I wonder if it could be made to run on Heroku? I gave up my personal server awhile back to run everything virtually.

&quot;As soon as you successfully uploaded them, navigate to the &#x2F;projects folder and set the permissions to 777.&quot;

Can&#x27;t upload images unfortunately. Something goes wrong with the session.

I can&#x27;t get it to upload any images, from either mobile or desktop.

Servers should be back shortly ._.

You guys are douchebags for shaming his ambitious effort. This tool is awesome in concept.

I have just downloaded and started using the &quot;app&quot; 10 minutes ago. It sounds like an app I have been searching for for a long time. After downloading I checked the codebase, as I usually do with every open source project I consider using - I have to agree to the other users: The code is really messy. I would suggest you to rewrite the whole app using an object oriented approach and dividing between HTML- and PHP-Code. Probably you can make use of something like Twig[1]. Do not create a file for every function of your system: Create a class for every object like &quot;Dashboard&quot;, &quot;Project&quot; and &quot;Node&quot;, then write an API to make their methods accessible from your apps javascript parts.<p>After checking out the code and realizing that it might have just been written by a beginner, I &quot;installed&quot; it locally: From a users point of view I have to say it is exactly what I need. I am able to post small snippets (called &quot;nodes&quot;) to a project (kind of a category&#x2F;idea). Thats all. Drag &amp; Drop works - awesome. The design is simple but really neat! However to make this system perfect for me it needs to implement multi-user functionality, where I can chat with my friends about our current projects.<p>I think I would give this project another try, when you were able to refactor the whole code basis and add multi-user functionality.<p>Good luck anyways.<p>PS: This post lead me to create a HN account.<p>[1] <a href="http://twig.sensiolabs.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;twig.sensiolabs.org&#x2F;</a>

Oh god, the code is awful

dat XSS: <a href="http://yournemexurl/nemex/index.php?view=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22XSSTEST%22%29;%3C/script%3E" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yournemexurl&#x2F;nemex&#x2F;index.php?view=%3Cscript%3Ealert%2...</a><p>Looks like it was written by designers...