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Welcome to CrowdUp, the platform for connecting people, ideas, and opportunities. This wiki contains everything you need to get started, use features, troubleshoot issues, contribute to development, and deploy the platform.
CrowdUp is a social platform designed to foster collaboration and engagement. Users can:
- Create and share posts across various categories
- Vote and comment on posts to signal importance and drive engagement
- Connect with others through user profiles and messaging
- Discover trends with an intelligent feed ranking system
- Build credibility through reputation and community recognition
- Explore apps and companies integrated within the ecosystem
CrowdUp emphasizes community-driven content and engagement, with algorithms that surface quality contributions and foster meaningful conversations.
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New to CrowdUp? Start here → Getting Started
- 5-minute setup
- Create your first account
- Post your first idea
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Explore features → Features
- Posting and engagement
- Messaging and follows
- Profiles and settings
- Apps and companies
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Troubleshooting issues → Troubleshooting
- Login & signup problems
- App loading issues
- Feature-specific help
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Developer setup & contribution → Contributing
- How to set up development environment
- Project structure overview
- How to submit code changes
- Development best practices
-- Development conventions & standards → Development Conventions
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Deployment & operations → Deployment (restricted access)
- Deploying to production
- Environment configuration
- Database management
- Security and monitoring
- Start here: Getting Started — 5-minute quick start guide
- Then explore: Features — learn about all available features
- Having issues? Check Troubleshooting for common solutions
-- Creating posts: See "Creating Posts" in Features -- Voting and engagement: See "Voting & Comments" in Features -- Messaging other users: See "Messaging" in Features -- Using profiles: See "User Profiles" in Features -- Settings & privacy: See "Settings & Privacy" in Features
-- Check Troubleshooting — covers common issues and solutions
- If your issue isn't listed, consider reaching out to the community or opening an issue on GitHub
- Set up your environment: Contributing — step-by-step development setup
- Understand the project: Contributing → Project Structure section
- Make changes and submit: Contributing → Making Changes & Submitting PRs
- Technical deep dive: See full developer documentation in the repository (referenced in Contributing)
For coding standards, conventions, and the review checklist see: Development Conventions
-- Architecture overview: See Contributing → Project Structure
-- Full technical docs: Check docs/ folder in the main repository
-- API reference: See API in the repository
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Open an issue on the GitHub repository
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Or discuss in community channels
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Issue labeling guide: See Labels Guidelines for how to categorize issues and apply labels consistently.
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See: Deployment (administrator access only)
- Step-by-step deployment guide
- Environment variable configuration
- Database migrations
- Security checklist
- Monitoring and maintenance
- GitHub Repository: CrowdUp-org/crowdup
- Issue Tracker: GitHub Issues
- License: See LICENSE
All CrowdUp community members are expected to follow our Code of Conduct. See Contributing → Code of Conduct for details.
Last updated: December 2025
