proposal: Create a dedicated Github repository for Haystack demos

[masci]

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Proposed Changes:

NLP applications showcasing Haystack's capabilities can be an invaluable learning resource
for its users, but at this moment we don't fully take advantage of the only one demo we have
as a documentation source.

This proposal aims at overcoming that limitation in two ways:

• Define better requirements for a demo application so that users can learn from it.
• Make it easier to add more demo applications showcasing Haystack.

[TuanaCelik]

All in all I love this proposal. As @bilgeyucel has been working on the REST API tutorial we've had the opportunity to learn a lot about how our demo + rest api works and currently the fact that the rest api and our own specific demo are so tightly bound to each other is not great from a developer experience imo. So this proposal is great.
I have one main open question about how we would move forward in technical terms about how the rest api would be spun up for each demo.

[TuanaCelik]

We could also think of how to communicate this on HSH

[bilgeyucel]

Agree. Also, before we begin, we need to establish how we will differentiate demos from the concept of showcases that we were talking about.

[masci]

@TuanaCelik I'll mention HSH but will stay generic to avoid any commitment in terms of delivery

[masci]

@bilgeyucel I don't want to derail the conversation too much, but if that helps - to me a "showcase" is a pointer to something cool made with Haystack. A demo might well be the subject of a showcase, but not necessarily.

[bilgeyucel]

I loved this idea! IMO, having a separate repo will make the demos more visible (we can directly share the link to the demo folder) and set the barrier lower for beginners to run them locally as there will be less distraction in terms of code 💯
I left two small comments about our approach, other than these, LGTM!

[bogdankostic]

I very much like the idea of having a central place collecting all kinds of applications that can be built with Haystack!

I think this will allow us more effectively demonstrate all the potential use-cases that can be solved with Haystack and I hope we will see many contributions to learn how the community builds solutions using Haystack.