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Oh poop. I'm the ezl from the github repo where that source lives. Was hoping we'd have more time to fix it before being embarassed. HNOH was intended to be
by ezl 16y ago
Oh poop. I'm the ezl from the github repo where that source lives. Was hoping we'd have more time to fix it before being embarassed.
HNOH was intended to be a quick weekend project (famous last words). We didn't quite make it in the weekend, so we just let it hang out in his half complete state.
rguzman, smalter, and I have been meaning to put some love into it, but we've been slammed working on what we think will be our real startup, http://www.leasely.com http://www.leasely.com, so we've not really carved out the time.
Its broken and buggy, the calendar features don't work right, and there are issues with creating/canceling recurring office hours. We'd LOVE for this to be used in real life, but its not in a state we can really say we're super proud of yet. We want anyone who wants to be involved to get involved, so if you have hours to donate, please get in touch.
The heavy lifting was done by HN users: rguzman, deuterium, C Allen from NYC (github.com/bitemyapp/, http://bitemyapp.com http://bitemyapp.com), and a few others.
So we f-ed up, there are still bugs, and its been on the backburner since we're trying to work on leasely but now we've been embarassed into fixing the bugs so we will.
[edit: linked to C Allen's github and personal page]
- sahillavingia 16y agoOops, my bad. I saw it in your profile and thought it would be useful to others (I hadn't heard about it before). My apologies!
- davidw 16y agoI don't care so much about the bugs: the big problem with these HN+ sites seems to be that they get an initial boost and then sort of fade away because people forget about them and new people don't find them.
- znt 16y agoMaybe we can start weekly office hour threads here and we'll all upvote the thread so the newcomers eventually see the service.
- ghotli 16y agoFor something like this it's not a maybe. I hear about services like this all the time and never hear about them again. If you want this thing to become a part of the hn community someone's going to have to put work into seeing that it hits the front page from time to time. Otherwise it's often just a flash in the pan. Good luck!
- chr15 16y agoYou may also want to set DEBUG=False on the production machine. With DEBUG=True I can see the application's internals.
- xtrumanx 16y agoJust wondering, why'd you opt to only allow those with hn accounts to use the site? I've been lurking here for a long time and had no intent of creating an account (mostly because I blame antics like mine for the decline of reddit so I vowed never to create a hn account, but I digress) but was forced to now to be a part of hnofficehours.
- alnayyir 16y agoWe wanted people who were serious about being involved in the community. Lurkers and trolls weren't exactly a high priority user target for us.