Catalyst - Facilitating Commissions
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- How you can Help
- Roadmap
- Known Bugs
- Feature List
- Basic Features
- Additional Features
- Potential Optimizations
- Contact Me
- Special Thanks
Introduction
Short Blurb
Catalyst serves to facilitate the process of commissioning through a simple, unified, and mobile-friendly way for artists to easily list their prices, recieve and track commissions, and much more.
What Sets us Apart
We are aware that there are many current and planned competitors to us. However, we plan to provide an excellent service in a way no one else does with some of the following features:
- Easy to search system
- Responsive, mobile-friendly interface
- Messages on various events such as opening of commissions
- Message delivery to E-Mail
- No social media aspect - this allows for us to focus on what matters and cut the crap
- Easy integration with other social networks
- Character management
- No fees
- And much more!
How you can Help
Follow us! I ask for help often in the Discord and Telegram!
- Discord: https://discord.gg/EECUcnT
- Telegram: https://t.me/catalystapp and https://t.me/catalystapp_announcements
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/catalystapp_co
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/catalyst
- Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/catalystapp
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/catalyst.app
- DeviantArt: https://catalystapp.deviantart.com/
- Weasyl: https://weasyl.com/~catalystapp/
- Fur Affinity: http://furaffinity.net/user/catalystapp
- FurryNetwork: https://beta.furrynetwork.com/catalyst/
- Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/102762464787584663279
- Reddit: https://reddit.com/user/catalystapp
- Tumblr: https://catalystapp-co.tumblr.com/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/catalystapp.co
- GitHub: https://github.com/catalyst-app/Catalyst
- Email: catalyst@catalystapp.co
Feature List
- Easy to find artists and their listings
- Artist and user profiles will contain social media information, including streaming indication
- Searchable artist profiles with simple formatting (colors, markdown)
- Examples! Lots of examples for you to gaze upon before you commission!
- Reviews - commissioners can leave an anonymous rating/comment
- Additionally, you can view recent commissioners and contact them to ask about their experience
- Characters
- Easily create a profile for your character full of art, refs, bio, etc and share it with an artist!
- Commission management - easily keep track of commissions and their status, possibly with trello integration
- Intuitive, simple design which is fully mobile-friendly!
- Strong security - two factor authentication and constant verifications site-wide
Known Bugs
Basic Feature List
Additional Features
See our Trello for a general idea! However, we now use Conveyor for real management so the Trello may be inconsistent, inaccurate, or otherwise outdated.
Developer Notes
This project adheres to PSR-1 and PSR-2 with the following exceptions:
- Indentation is a tab, not spaces,
- Opening braces go on the same line, and
- Closure
function
keywords must not have a space following them.