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We have a real-time API and we're not afraid to use it. Are you?
- wulczer 15y agoIf you have any questions, I'll be here all day ;)
- qeorge 15y agoReally want to try it out, but I've been waiting for an invite since 6/1/2011. :) Anything you can do? george@illuminatikarate.com
- rwolf 15y agoAfter poking around little bit, it appears you need to poll for updates. To clarify, when you say "real-time" you mean "changes are reflected quickly" and not "changes are pushed to clients"?
- wulczer 15y agoNope, we push changes to clients. The exact workflow is: the initial data is pulled over HTTP, the code connects to our server over WebSockets and after that no more requests are made. The real-time updates are pushed over the WebSocket connection.
- rwolf 15y agoThanks for clarifying. I'm not sure how I missed that when reviewing the example code.
- Swizec 15y agoI think I want to have some fun with this. No idea whatsoever what I want to build, but it might be totally awesome.
- joshu 15y agoAnyone have any thoughts on how to do the display side of this in VERY low power? Are there cheap android tablets or whatever that might be suitable? I want to do something like this but don't need to consume tons of watts...
- wulczer 15y agoWe have plans to make an interface that's less bling-heavy and more power-friendly, but it won't hit production anytime soon. Another way is to simply write your own visualisation. If you're interested in getting early-alpha-unstable-omg access to the read APIs (HTTP and WebSockets), shoot us an email to hello@ducksboard.com
- joshu 15y agoI meant on the hardware side. A PC + display takes up, what, 40 watts minimum?
- dchuk 15y agoOne of these would probably work great: http://www.mimomonitors.com/ http://www.mimomonitors.com/
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- asmosoinio 15y agoDo you have a story for the name? The first thing I thought of was "duck duck go is going real-time?".
- wulczer 15y agoThis photo of two of the founders when they were 12 years and 60 pounds younger should explain it http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18461275/Ducksboard-founders.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18461275/Ducksboard-founders.jpg Go, Anaheim Ducks!
- nickbarnwell 15y agoExcited to test it out with Podio. Will save me writing my own dashboard interface and make customers pretty happy in the process
- thorin_2 15y agoNone of the widgets worked for me in the demo. After researching WebSockets I figured it out: WS aren't supported by IE (or so it appears, using IE9 with all default settings). see them when using my Chrome browser. Seems like IE users are still a pretty big market though, so not sure how this will succeed without support for IE.
- aitorciki 15y agoHm, we fallback to a Flash implementation of the WebSocket protocol when using a non-compatible browser, IE9 included. Could it be that you don't have a Flash-enabled IE?
- aw3c2 15y agoAfter clicking through several pages to find out what on earth ducksboard is it turned out to be NOT a physical screen device. Meh.
- abarrera 15y agoGreat work guys!! Looking forward to see more integration and new widgets! As I said before would love to have more info on the graphing widgets ;)
- pivotal 15y agoNeat idea, although I think you need to make it a bit clearer what the product is on that page. I had to click a few times to get the executive summary. That being said, I'm a bit grumpy I didn't try to develop a similar idea I had a while ago.
- citricsquid 15y agoThe idea isn't a new one, there are other companies doing this (geckoboard is the most popular one that I can recall) -- ducksboard are just doing it differently.
- aitorciki 15y agoA new homepage is coming. We'll try to make it clearer this time.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoContest is a great idea, but doing a contest for a closed beta product is not exactly my piece of pie. Too many hurdles to jump to see if this is going to be what I want to use in the first place. No word on pricing on your launch page either, except for "buying widgets"
- dmarinoc 15y agoOoops... I think we have a wrong message in our site: it's not in our plans to sell widgets (or put limitations on the # of them you can use). Probably the word "marketplace" isn't appropriate. Calling it "directory" suits better our intentions. Also, it's not really a contest. For us is to have fun, play with cutting-edge technology, make interesting things and just hack. I see your point about pricing, but we can only say at this stage that we are validating the final one and it will be affordable. Hope this helps to explain our view.
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- 8ig8 15y agoSo Ducksboard is free? Are there any details about future plans to charge for services? I hate signing up for services when there is no indication about the future.
- dmarinoc 15y agoIt's free during the beta... and someday we'll start charging. There's nothing more I can say you now except: - We are validating the pricing, and it will cost like any other SaaS (different plans segmented on features and affordable [monthly fee like 1-2 hours of typical salary outside SiliconValley :D] - If you are in the Hackathon, we will forget to send you any invoice during some months ;)
- Sukotto 15y agoInstead of not sending an invoice I think it might be smarter to send one and have a line item "Early adopter bonus -$xx". That way once the bonus runs out, it won't be quite as surprising for the user.
- aitorciki 15y agoWe are in a closed beta, the final product will require a monthly fee. People participating in the hackathon with funny ideas will get a discount though. The plans will be announced as soon as we feel the product is ready for daily use, which we expect to be really soon.
- ultrasaurus 15y agoI just applied for an API key, but there's a deadline of the 4th or the 7th? I'm not optimistic this particular project will percolate to the top of the stack that quickly.