Here you will find ideas, concepts, future upgrades, and proposals that apply to the technical, architectural, visual, performance, and navigational aspects of this website's infrastructure. We have a lot of awesome ideas that come to our heads all the time, and you'll find them in the pipeline below. But, if our brilliant minds have forgotten something, or you think that you have a great idea that you think would improve this website, let us know! Good happens... great takes a little more. And we're putting everything we find/come up with on this page so that we can refer to it when the moment is right. Think of this as a trustworthy notebook that you keep to jot down your thoughts. Sure, some ideas may be a bit more crazy or ambitious than others, but the only unfortunate idea is the good one that's forgotten.
Mobile website/Android/iPhone app
Full, interactive development
Log in with location, beer, review/rating, pictures
Check into events, venues based on location
Photo identify: use camera to take a picture of a logo, bottle, or barcode to identify a beer in our database
Recommendations based on historical and recent beer check-ins and corresponding ratings
Full access to user accounts and communities on app
Online Beer Database
Sortable HTML
Search function with instant results
Includes content from Excel sheet
IBU, color specs included
Beers' characteristics quantified on a matrix set by aspects of feel, look, taste, aroma, and overall rating on a 1-5 scale (see below); this data is used in both a filterable search and the beer matchmaker
Sort/search/filter by style, rating, abv, brewery country of origin
Online Brewery Database
Search/Sort/Filter by category and location
Timeline by establish date
Interactive map of global brewery locations
Navigate by name, category, location, date established, average rating of products
Upgrades to Brewery Pages
Average ratings
Updated addresses/multiple addresses for multi-facility
Contact info including phone and e-mail
Direct link to website URL
User Accounts and Content
Create account with protected login
Link account with Facebook, twitter, etc.
Profile with basic information, comments history, reputation
Upload content including pictures, videos, and reviews
Reviews based on similar model, taste, feel, aroma, appearance, and overall
Info including pictures/videos, dates, locations, applicable history and user stories
Online community including profile search, database, location, interests, favorite beers, reputation
Messenger, e-mail, comments, Up/Down rate
Custom Dynamic Database Search
Instant search results including drop down recent/predictable search
Filter results by beer characteristics matrix (slider 1-5 on aspects of look, color, feel, aroma, and overall rating) (see below)
Results include logo/picture, location, category for breweries; style, rating, picture, abv, and link to brewery or review for beers
Filterable by usual data input variables
Affiliated Sponsorships
Contact Company/Brewery
Inquire about traffic, leads, clicks
Official logos, branding
Sales and Merch
Updated contact info
Home Brewing Section
General education center
User recipe submissions
Tasting events
Community/Forum
Upgraded Visuals and Appearance
Flash, live content
Better overall feel and appearance
Better general flow
Upgraded Navigation
Easier nav
Drop down/hover menus
More accesibility
General Initiatives
Newsletter and e-mail lists
An events and news section
Interactive calendar with attendable, commentable events for community members
YouTube Channel
Facebook focus - more members
Affiliate Links and Info
Full Social Media Updates
Instagram Updates
Activate RSS Feed
Twitter Feed
Character Profile Matrix Variables
Look - Color, Carbonation Action, Foam Head, Lacing, Clarity/Haziness or Cloudiness, Smooth/Choppy Pour