Meja

Project at a glance

Meja was a platform to share ideas and receive feedback. It pivoted into a Twitter bot before being shut down.

It was my first real attempt at building something — the MVP is open-source.

Context

I always wanted to make a space for ideas — a place where everybody could share what they were thinking, get feedback, and maybe find someone to co-build it with.

I was 17, and I’d been programming since I was 8. Back then we were afraid about sharing product ideas: “Somebody’s going to steal our idea and build it faster with more money”. After reading on Medium, I discovered everybody was in the same situation and one idea leads to different products. Pitching to family wasn’t useful either — they’d always say “Love the idea, you should build this” or “Awesome!”.

We had the idea years before, around the end of 2015, but didn’t act on it. Then we discovered a great product doing the same thing — and sadly it closed in early 2019. I had nothing to share my ideas with and get constructive feedback, so we built a new product. We started with an MVP, and two weeks later there was a new version of the platform.

Being able to find new team members or just get in touch with people like us, sharing their ideas, is one of the most important things.

Tech stack

• Node.js for the API
• AngularJS for the website
• PHP for the MVP