Now that I’ve decided Kinetic should have a web interface, the next question is: What features should it have?

I’m learning towards just creating a Minimum Viable Product. I’ll be able to get early feedback on my ideas. Plus it’ll force me to resist my natural tendency to be a perfectionist. Ok, so what might a bare-bones, no-fluff app look like?

1. The user enter texts which describes a diagram.
2. Kinetic then generates the diagram (in PNG image format) from that textual description.
3. Kinetic then displays the generated PNG diagram to the user.

That’s as basic as it can get, and it all fits on a single web page:

So that’s my plan for the next several weeks–to get version 0.0001 up-and-running. It’ll be pathetic and primitive, but at least it’ll be something. What do you think?