This is my first attempt at making a real website. When I say a real website, I mean without using bootstrap, or copying templates. I'm trying to build this from scratch using HTML, CSS, some jQuery, and now I'm deciding whether to use Ruby on Rails or PHP / MySQL to get the backend working. I am leaning towards ROR because of the team treehouse course on how to build a social network.  Basically the idea here is to let people post their ideas like you would post a question on Quora. After typing in your idea, you pick a category & click Submit. The idea will appear in the feed to the right, where members can click "Collaborate", and leave a comment. Then the idea maker can accept the collaborator into his /her "group". Once the idea maker has enough collaborators, he / she can then "close" the group, so that they may begin collaborating on the idea in the "group section". It's a fairly simple idea and I hope to create it over the next few months.