Want to make it easier to build news apps quickly? Vox Media has opensourced its solution, Autotune by Justin Ellis.
From the post:
Making a beautiful app for news is great; making a beautiful reusable app for news is better. At least that’s the thinking behind a new project released by Vox Media today: Autotune is a system meant to simplify the creation and duplication of things like data visualizations, graphics, or games.
Autotune was designed by members of the Vox Media product team to cut down on the repetitive work of taking one project — say, a an image slider — and making it easy to use elsewhere. It’s “a centralized management system for your charts, graphics, quizzes and other tools, brought to you by the Editorial Products team at Vox Media,” according to the project’s GitHub page. And, yes, that means Autotune is open source.
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Sounds like a great project but I will have to get a cellphone to pass judgement on apps. 😉 I would have to get a Farraday cage to keep it in when not testing apps.