[Sweepstakes] Share your ideas on improving the Initial Developer Experience!
Hi Community!
We’re excited to announce a brand-new sweepstakes. This time, the theme is:
💡 Initial Developer Experience 💡
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We want to hear your thoughts on how we can make the very first steps with InterSystems technologies smoother, clearer, and more inspiring. Whether it’s documentation, onboarding, setup, or tutorials, your ideas can make a real difference!
To take part in this sweepstakes, follow these simple steps:
- Be a member of the Ideas Portal, just log in using your SSO.
- Create a new idea
- Select the category Initial Developer Experience.
- Describe your suggestion in as much detail as possible, highlighting exactly how this will improve the Developer Experience of new users.
- Share the link and the title of your idea in the comments below so others can see it too.
That’s all! At the end of November, we’ll use a randomizer to choose one lucky participant who will receive a special prize 🎁
We’re looking forward to your creative and practical ideas! Good luck ☘️
Notes:
- Duplicate ideas will not be accepted. Make sure your submission is unique.
- InterSystems employees are welcome to participate.
- We reserve the right to moderate the ideas - the moderators' decision is final.
- Here's a short guide on how to submit an idea.
- Pst, the more ideas you post, the higher your chance of getting a prize 🤗
Comments
Here's my small but useful contribution:
@Hisham Yoosuf added the idea Ready-to-Use VM for Learning and Experimentation
Added a new idea Add a "mentor mode" to Management portal
Hello everyone, there's still time to come up with something that would've made your life so much easier when you started using IRIS. The sweepstakes are open till the end of November!
This isn't a new idea, but we have a full onboarding guide for anyone new to InterSystems IRIS, including an online learning program for developers! https://community.intersystems.com/post/onboarding-intersystems-iris-co…
My idea is a docker image with all the materials to let newcomers learn properly how to code in objectscript and work with InterSystems IRIS
Create a Docker image with material for | InterSystems Ideas
(P.S. because of a connection issue I posted the same idea three times, the first two without a description. I couldn't see any of my posted idea so I tried multiple times to post it. Is there any way to remove the drafts?)
I met a similar issue.
A new IDEA might be to fix the interface for IDEAS 😉
Great idea Robert! 😁
Hi @Pietro Di Leo, I took care of the duplicates 😉
Thank you Irène!
Hello everyone, it's almost time to choose one lucky winner of the sweepstakes!
Here's the list of ideas that we have received so far and that will take part in the draw:
| Idea | Author | Date added | Votes |
| Bring back the wizards | @Iryna Mykhailova | Nov 16, 2025 | 5 |
| Add an "Add Server to VS Code" Option to System Tray Icon | @David Hockenbroch | Oct 30, 2025 | 4 |
| Ready-to-Use VM for Learning and Experimentation | @Hisham Yoosuf | Oct 30, 2025 | 4 |
| Interactive LLM-Powered Assistant | @Hisham Yoosuf | Oct 30, 2025 | 3 |
| Add a "mentor mode" to Management portal | @Iryna Mykhailova | Nov 1, 2025 | 3 |
| Create a Docker image with material for InterSystems IRIS onboarding | @Pietro Di Leo | Nov 24, 2025 | 2 |
| "Run in Postman" Button for IRIS for Health FHIR REST APIs | @Vishal Pallerla | Oct 31, 2025 | 1 |
| AI Interface Builder (AskISC): Generate full Productions from specs or Excel | @Tirthankar Bachhar | Nov 24, 2025 | 1 |