Buckets primary goal is to help people manage content and websites better. It strives to be simple and friendly, both to everyday content contributors or web designers and developers.
- Content management should be de-coupled from web publishing.
- Managing content should not feel like administrating a database.
- Open Source software can have the same level of polish and detail as world-class social services.
- Delight plays a critical role in the user experience. Speed, animations, and intuitive interfaces are all major priorities.
- Leverage and expose portions of the technical stack with a simple interface to keep the architecture light, but consumer-usable.
- Building Buckets (or building on Buckets) should be just as enjoyable as using Buckets
There are several high-level features we are considering after we deliver on everything mentioned above:
- Version control for posts
- Smart Buckets which can import content from a variety of social sources, IFTTT-style
- @@Built-in tooling for web designers: This means supporting things like Sass/Compass/CoffeeScript compilation, image optimization, etc. through a synced file-based system.@@
Buckets will include a built-in marketplace for plugins/extensions, even in its open source version. This will allow developers to monetize plugins (with Buckets taking a percentage) and foster an ecosystem which we control. Additionally, post “1.0” status, we plan to allow users to sign up to Buckets as a SaaS app with monthly paid accounts.