May 23, 2013

profileapps - create a profile page with Google ID

I was thinking about designing a web application which can be used as a profile of us. A profile page which describe ourselves. What I had in mind was a single page profile. Not a social networking portal like MySpace.



I came across a portal which provides this service - about.me, which is pretty good service.
I thought of an app which uses Google sign-in and create a profile page with the Google ID. As Google has got single sign-on for different web apps and Google provides a nice platform Google app engine for web app development. I decided to user Google app engine platform for development.

And I created a portal profileapps.appspot.com. And here is my page http://profileapps.appspot.com/arunkumarv31

With this app anyone with a Google ID can signin and create a profile page.
profileapps.appspot.com/username
iprofil.es/username
The second one I have registered this site for one year. May not be there after an year.

The source code of this development is there in Github. It is developed in python.
my profile page in profileapps

I coded it in a rough way. I just wanted to make a working prototype first.
This one is using Google App Engine. If you are interested in creating something like this from scratch, like configuring apache, python, mysql from scratch check this post.

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