On shuffleDB, we encourage users to subscribe to help support the platform, but understand not everyone has the cash, so we offer an alternative exchange of value: users complete "Missions" to gain points, and points give access to site content. If you can't pay, but got the moves, we got you covered. This way, we have the best of both worlds: the power of the almighty dollar and the power of crowdsourced value. This is how we will rapidly expand and populate our database.
After Signing up, the quickest way to get started is to go to the missions page. Check out the active missions, select one you like, and it will step you through the process of providing all the requirements of the mission.
We know the shuffle community loves challenges, so we designed all of our missions as such. Not just dance challenges, but the ability to provide the database information it needs to help it thrive. You will be provided with, and asked for some combination of: Names, Descriptions, provide video links to comparable content, to provide requested video perspectives of the move(s), to identify stances, center of gravity, weight distribution, thumbnails, and everything else our team thinks will help us become the best we can be. Don't panic: You choose what missions to complete and can view its requirements beforehand. Points awarded are a reflection of the quantity of value provided. You're going to do great.
Mission Creation Page → Mission Submission Page → Mission Administration → ShuffleDB Content.
Users or Administrators use the mission creator to create a mission of a type: A Stance, Move, Simple-Cycle, Transition, Combination, or Choreography.
Then, once an administrator sets the mission to active, it appears on the missions page. Users then follow the mission submission process to complete a mission. Sometimes missions might be created just for you.
After submission, Admins review submissions in the mission administration page: they can lock, add criteria, make modifications, duplicate, reclassify, all possible changes to a mission are available to them - but you'll be eager to see if your submission got approved or rejected for those sweet sweet POINTS.
Category Creation
Fragmented information, scattered resources, inconsistent quality, and naming standards predominates social media where Shuffle dancers share and exchange. There are excellent content creators out there sharing free moves for all, but it might be mixed in with a mountain of other content. One creator might use different names, or sort their content different from the next, have inconsistent media standards, or content might disappear one day to the next.
You might lack the cash for access, and you are giving up the power of the crowd. Run by one or a few people, there is a limit on how big they can grow as they must draw from their own labor pool, rather than leveraging the entire shuffle community. Without a unified platform, dancers navigate through fragmented information, inconsistent quality, and mixed content. The art of shuffle dance demands more than piecemeal tutorials and disconnected advice; it requires a cohesive, organized, and standardized reference.
We are building a system designed so efficiently and effectively populate our site, we are declaring it before we have it: ShuffleDB will be an unparalleled collection of shuffle dance moves, simple cycles, transitions, combinations, and choreography. We don't just plan on working hard to achieve this, but how it's designed. The structure of the site, its database, how it all works is the answer we all need.
This project is planned, designed, coded, revised, and marketed with the help of multiple AI technologies. The iterative conversation that we have and oversee produces the documents that serve as the prompts that are used to further build out our site's features.