Brief competitive analysis

[mairin]

We should conduct a brief competitive analysis of websites similar to the ChRIS Store. GitHub and DockerHub should be two of the sites we look at. We should try to look at 4-5 total.

[EUGINELETHAL]

https://pypi.org/,
djangopackages.org,
https://readthedocs.org/dashboard/
@mairin I think these sites are also similar to the ChRIS Store and are worthy to look at or what do you think?

[aryabyte21]

@mairin I tried to do the analysis, here are some of my findings:
DockerHub has a captcha to prevent botspam on the signup. We don't have it yet.

• We haven't set up terms and conditions and their respective checkboxes in the signup section.
• I think if we have a bigger sigin/register button at the top right which when hovered upon changes it's color just as in dockerhub it would look better.

• I think the sort by button is not useful as it isn't doing any kind of sorting anyhow as of now.

• If our project has some social presence then we can also give social media tags in the footer page.

[jennydaman]

Hey there @AryaArunB these are some nice finds.

• Regarding captcha, terms and conditions, these are not important at this point in time since we are a small project.
• We don't have a good reason to require captcha. Docker Hub offers free storage (of container images) which can be abused, The ChRIS Store can only store ChRIS plugin metadata. There's no good way to abuse it, and there's no intention to spam a ChRIS Store other than trolling.
• Terms and conditions are not super important for the ChRIS Store, since it doesn't require personal information to use nor does it store independently meaningful data. The data inside the ChRIS Store is metadata about (typically) open source projects: this metadata can be said to belong to the public domain.
• About "Sort by": Sorting of plugin search results #135
• We've played around with the styling of the "Sign In" (implicit "register") button before, we can revisit the issue — if you have any fleshed-out ideas you would like to discuss, open an issue.
• Social media presence is an interesting concept. Maybe we should do a weekly blog of recent developments. @mairin kind of like the meeting minutes you used to keep. @rudolphpienaar it would also help us track our own growth