About vsThis

What is vsThis?

vsThis is a simple website that allows visitors to contribute their opinions on what is better than what. Post your positive or negatives opinions about something and have "battles". A battle is simply a vote against two things, the thing that receives the vote is the winner of that battle.

Why?

Why this project? Well, while browsing the web for a website that compares anything to anything, I only came across sites like Compare-Stuff.com and GoogleFight.com. These websites are good at comparing keywords for popularity, however, there is no user contribution.

My goal is to design vsThis to allow anybody to give their two cents on why something is better than another, or vice versa. If enough visitors contribute, vsThis.com could become the go-to spot to compare anything. Playstaton 3 vs Xbox 360, owning a cat vs owning a dog, MySpace vs Facebook, etc.

Design and Coding

The first version of vsThis was built in two days using Django and Python. This is not exactly a serious project, more of a hobby project. If visitors like the website, I can find time to put into it of course. As of Aug 29, 2008: vsThis is a very basic website with no user registration and basic features. I will be personally working on it to make it more interactive and useful when I have time.

For those of your interested in looking at the code. I will probably release the code after cleaning up all the views, models, and model managers. It's a mess right now and probably would not be very useful to anybody. Djangosites.org has a nice collection of sites powered by Django with source code to look at.

Todo

1. Add comments to each page and post.
2. Allow visitors to submit new descriptions/definitions for each page and vote for the best.
3. Allow visitors to submit images for a page.
4. Add user registration.
5. Improve the design of the user interface. More style and graphics.