About Tinypug

Tinypug is a system for building portals that enable innovation communities and customer inquiry. The idea is to go beyond one-off statistical surveys (which tend to only verify an existing paradigm) to foster real collaboration, scalable two-way communication, and anecdotal feedback from users/customers.

Features and Uses

A company seeking to gather more feedback on its products usually has to resort to a few existing stand-alone mechanisms such as polls and comments on product listings. But Tinypug puts all of these tools together in one place. It's not a content management system as much as it is a feedback and collaboration system.

Tinypug provides in-browser message boards, polls, surveys, and user-submitted ideas with voting. There's also a basic content system that enables you to upload and publish pages and images. You can customize the look of the site using themes and extend its functionality using add-on libraries.

Technology

Tinypug is written in PHP and uses the CodeIgniter framework.

Documentation that describes Tinypug's functionality in more detail is available on the wiki. You can view a screencast that shows how to set up Tinypug on your own server.