Minumum Viable Product (MVP) Tiers

1. New account creation, login, and guest/demo login (1.5 days)

• Registration with email/username
• Login and logout functionality with demo user
• Unregistered users cannot interact with anything outside the splash/session forms

2. Hosting on Heroku

3. Servers (2 days)

• Users can create/join/leave servers
• Server owner can delete/edit the server
• Member list will show usernames of all server members
• Mini-bonus: Server owner can kick members from the server

4. Channels within servers (1 day)

• Server owner can create/edit/remove channels on the server
• At least one channel must remain
• Mini-bonus: Server owner can rearrange channel order

5. Live Chat (2 days)

• Server members can post/edit messages in channels
• Server owner can delete messages
• Page will live-update when other users post messages
• Edited messages will also live-update
• Mini-bonus: "[User] is typing..." alerts

6. Direct Messaging via private servers (2 days)

• Private servers are invite-only
• DMs are special private servers with one channel and two equal members (?)
• Mini-bonus: Group DMs can include more than two people

7. A production README (0.5 days)

Bonus 1. Assignable Roles

• Server owner can assign admin roles to server members
• Admins can use powers normally available only to server owners
• The server owner cannot be kicked from the server

Bonus 2. Private/Temporary Invitations

• Members can generate temporary invitation links that expire after some time
• They can be private (for one user only) or general