Beenion is a project that I am builing "in my spare time". I'm using it primaraly for testing new ideas and technologies.
Detail overview of a project architecture
- CQRS
- Event Sourcing
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Express
- React
The goal of the project is to create a system that would help authors receive feedback early on and reach the audience for their work regardless of their popularity. An author can be a developer, musician, writer or pretty much anyone producing some creative work. In short, I’m trying to adapt an old idea of peer reviews and scientific journals to an online medium. Here is a short clip on how “Peer Review” system works for scientific journals.
Of course, the project I intent to build is not the same and it’s not limited to science articles. I first thought about this from a “JavaScript library publication perspective” but the idea evolved and also got simplified in some areas.
Here are the main points:
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Medium consist of publications and projects
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A project (a video, book, blog post etc.) is then submitted in the publication
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Publication is managed as a hierarchy of reviewers assigned in stages
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Reviewers and authors can earn points which helps in refining this hierarchy structure (something similar to stackoverflow ranking system)
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Most famous and acknowledged reviewers have the ultimate decision if a project will be featured in the publication
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Second stage of publication reviewers is defined by the first one, third stage by the second one and so on
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Each assigned reviewer sends his review, comments and his decision on whether he accepts or declines a project submission
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If a majority of project reviews (or similar criteria) in current stage are positive, project is promoted to the next stage
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If the project is declined, an author can apply received suggestions, modify his project and resubmit it again or choose another publication
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If enough projects are accepted, publication editors can publish an issue which is then sent as a newsletter to all subscribers.