#steemgigs: I want a new "home" interface, with categories I can create to put users and tags in

I just found #steemgigs! I've been discussing features that I'd like to see with others, for several weeks. One major pain point for me with the Steemit website is that when I click the "home" link, I'm overwhelmed. So much so, that I made a post about it a month ago.

Perhaps I've followed too many people, but I don't want to unfollow or mute anyone, merely as a means to find those I want to see more easily.

Extend the five links with user-created categories

Right now as I'm typing this, I see just under "Steemit beta" a list of links, "home new hot trending promoted". I would like a sixth link after that, with a box around it to indicate it's different, labelled "create".

Click that, and the user is given two fields: one to name the new category (normal single-line text field), and one to specify what goes in it. The second field will be a full text field. Now, since tags and usernames can't have spaces in them, it doesn't have to be "one entry per line", they can be separated by any whitespace, so keep that in mind when writing the parsing algorithm. Also, the category name can have spaces in it, in fact can have any characters, since it's just something the user enters in order to remember what's in it.

For instance, I'd want a category for my wife, so I would put this text in both fields: "@countrylover". There are several people I follow who help others with their gardens, so for that one I'd use something like "garden helpers" and for the second field, "@grow-pro @aunt-deb @bchick" etc; or:

"@grow-pro
@aunt-deb
@bchick" etc.

Once the category is created, it'd be added before the "create" button. So, for instance, with the above two additions, I'd end up with "home new hot trending promoted @countrylover 'garden helpers'" -- I put single quotes around the one with a space in it, but they're separated by something like 5 spaces in the display, so it'd still look good in the interface.

Each category should have a number next to it

That number should indicate the number of posts that were created since the last time I clicked that link. The number could be in a circle, similar to one's reputation score in a comment header:

Other pre-defined categories:

1. "Number of comments to me by follower" -- a way of seeing who is most interactive with me, and continuing that.
2. "Frequency of comments to me by follower" -- similar to the above, but the number would be calculated such that someone who commented to me twice yesterday would be higher than someone who commented once, even if those were the first commenter's only comments to me (i.e., so they'd be at the end of the above list).
3. "Total upvotes given to me by follower" -- similar to number of comments.
4. "Frequency of upvotes given to me by follower" -- similar to frequency of comments.
5. "Total resteems" and
6. "Frequency of resteems", just like the above pairs.

Technologies? I don't know!

Now, I don't know exactly which technologies will be required to make this happen. I would like the result to be open source, that way anybody can make use of it, and there won't be any ownership questions in case others combine their funds with me (not sure whether #steemgigs has a provision for that; seems like it'd be useful).

Will this require a full steem node? I don't think so. I've looked at the steempython tutorial but alas, am recovering from concussions and can't write code (hopefully, temporarily) -- but when I found #steemgigs, I realized that I can pay someone else to write code for me! :)

Anyway, from the look I gave the steempython tutorial, I saw that it could download the blockchain with a fairly short program. And, while running it wouldn't need to have the entire blockchain saved to disk -- only since the last time it checked. It could even, when it starts up, only look back a week in time to get the initial "circled" numbers -- thus, never needing a large portion of the blockchain. Once it calculates new numbers, it could then discard the beginning portion of the blockchain -- meaning, we'd want to save it in separate files or something so that operation is easier (because normally, deleting something from the beginning of a file means writing out the entire rest-of-the-file, which could take a lot longer).

Local implementation?

With that in mind, would it be possible to make a local implementation, so that users can run a script on their machines which is constantly gathering from the blockchain, and updating what they'd see?

It's also possible that this should be implemented at http://steemit.com instead of as a plugin or something.

If it's a plugin, I'd want it to be widely-accessible, in other words, not only for Firefox. I've heard of greasemonkey and tampermonkey, not sure if those are cross-platform or not.

Server implementation?

Another way to do it would be to have a server, which is configured with the users to watch, and it'd update its database, and then the local implementation would pull from there, rather than pulling from the blockchain. This might reduce the total amount of blockchain download -- in other words, it only downloads it to the server, and then shares a tiny subset of it with each local implementation.

What should this cost?

I don't know; this is my first #steemgigs post, and I haven't bought code before.

I'm willing to spend 50 SBD on it right now. If you can do it for that price, let's talk. If you think it'll take more, let's also talk. And if you like this idea and want to aggregate your funds with my funds, leave a comment as well! :)