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Show HN: Prompt.im - A simple real-time chat app built in 1 day

18 points by sim0n 15y ago

sim0n 15y ago
My friend, Greg and I wanted to try out node.js to see how we liked the language (we're looking in to using it on http://interstateapp.com http://interstateapp.com in the near future) and so we decided to do the normal thing and build a multi-channel web chat app. So far we've spent about 1 day developing it and it seems to be working pretty well. Feel free to try it out by visiting the main prompt channel here: http://prompt.im/prompt http://prompt.im/prompt. For those interested, the chat completely uses node.js (with expressjs and nowjs) for the server-side code and we use MongoDB to archive all sent messages. Any comments would be appreciated :)
LiamSymonds 15y ago
This is brilliant, you get to meet a multitude of people who are awsome. The UI is nice, simple and achieves the idea! Brilliant :)
erik_p 15y ago
I like the hover over a message for timestamp.
armsteady 15y ago
Love the site. I had some thoughts about creating something like this. Love the UI too. Very simple but still elegant and beautiful. Nice work!
Tycho 15y ago
1 day, huh? Node.js is looking like a cotdamn CV goldmine. Bear in mind that most industry people have never even heard of it (never mind most HR people!), and the stuff it lets you do is pretty appealing. And would take a lot of work in other frameworks. I need to cook up a few of these for myself. Not sure if they'll come out as nice as this though.
- getsat 15y ago
  You could do the same with Erlang or Ruby + eventmachine or Python + Twisted, but Node.js is the current hotness.
  - sim0n 15y ago
    Node.js was great for this because of the nowjs library which let us use practically the same codebase on both the client and the server side of things which really sped up development ;-)
    - getsat 15y ago
      Whatever gets you to MVP fastest is the best in my book. :)
robertboloc 15y ago
really nice UI!
aurora72 15y ago
No one's talked about its twitter/fb limitation. Are we born with twitter & fb?
- sim0n 15y ago
  It helps fight spam and makes impersonation more cumbersome for trolls.
- NewHighScore 15y ago
  I would use this if it didn't have the twitter/fb limitation. I hate being forced to have twitter and facebook to get into other websites. The UI looks excellent though, good work!
ntulip 15y ago
it is simple, looks and behaves nicely. Good job. Any ideas on commercial aspects of it?
abtinf 15y ago
http://wompt.com/ http://wompt.com/ is flattered :)

18 points by sim0n 15y ago

sim0n 15y ago

My friend, Greg and I wanted to try out node.js to see how we liked the language (we're looking in to using it on http://interstateapp.com http://interstateapp.com in the near future) and so we decided to do the normal thing and build a multi-channel web chat app. So far we've spent about 1 day developing it and it seems to be working pretty well. Feel free to try it out by visiting the main prompt channel here: http://prompt.im/prompt http://prompt.im/prompt. For those interested, the chat completely uses node.js (with expressjs and nowjs) for the server-side code and we use MongoDB to archive all sent messages. Any comments would be appreciated :)

LiamSymonds 15y ago

This is brilliant, you get to meet a multitude of people who are awsome. The UI is nice, simple and achieves the idea! Brilliant :)

erik_p 15y ago

I like the hover over a message for timestamp.

armsteady 15y ago

Love the site. I had some thoughts about creating something like this. Love the UI too. Very simple but still elegant and beautiful. Nice work!

Tycho 15y ago

1 day, huh? Node.js is looking like a cotdamn CV goldmine. Bear in mind that most industry people have never even heard of it (never mind most HR people!), and the stuff it lets you do is pretty appealing. And would take a lot of work in other frameworks. I need to cook up a few of these for myself. Not sure if they'll come out as nice as this though.

getsat 15y ago
You could do the same with Erlang or Ruby + eventmachine or Python + Twisted, but Node.js is the current hotness.
- sim0n 15y ago
  Node.js was great for this because of the nowjs library which let us use practically the same codebase on both the client and the server side of things which really sped up development ;-)
  - getsat 15y ago
    Whatever gets you to MVP fastest is the best in my book. :)

robertboloc 15y ago

really nice UI!

aurora72 15y ago

No one's talked about its twitter/fb limitation. Are we born with twitter & fb?

sim0n 15y ago
It helps fight spam and makes impersonation more cumbersome for trolls.
NewHighScore 15y ago
I would use this if it didn't have the twitter/fb limitation. I hate being forced to have twitter and facebook to get into other websites. The UI looks excellent though, good work!

ntulip 15y ago

it is simple, looks and behaves nicely. Good job. Any ideas on commercial aspects of it?

abtinf 15y ago

http://wompt.com/ http://wompt.com/ is flattered :)