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So I made an overnight prototype of this about 2 years ago as a side project from my day job. It has since grown into a startup and I'm proud to be associated w
by lrvick 15y ago
So I made an overnight prototype of this about 2 years ago as a side project from my day job. It has since grown into a startup and I'm proud to be associated with a great team. We have been working very hard the last few months to build a beta search and analysis tool and to show off a good public sampling of the capabilities of the platform we have developed. We hope to gain some exposure to secure second round funding for upcoming offerings and some commentary we need to improve.
It still has some rough edges which we very much hope you all can help us work out. As we obviously want to monetize parts of our platform in time, we want to listen to the community to create the best tool possible. To that end, we have already open sourced some of the libraries behind Tawlk via http://github.com/Tawlk http://github.com/Tawlk and we welcome any contributions or forks. We very much believe in the "Open source -Almost- Everything" model.
Also worth nothing about this demo, is that to make good use of our current limited server resources and to avoid hitting API and CPU limitations, we are utilizing many relatively new techniques including combinations of WebSockets, HTML5 localStorage, HTML5 App Caching, and direct browser-side data collection to make it work.
I hope you find the beta interesting and intuitive. I look forward to your comments or questions.
If you find bugs, please screenshot them with steps to reproduce so they can be taken care of quickly and please be nice to our servers :-)
EDIT: If you see connection errors you can dismiss it with the "x" in the top right. Search should still work, you just wont get any of the websocket supported sidebar stats (which i very much encourage you to try out on another network). We are working on some fallback connection methods to resolve this for firewalled and otherwise unable-to-connect users.
In the mean time, here is a reference rendering:
http://dumpon.us/media/uploads/TAWLK_GUI_HORIZONTAL_V18_1.jpg http://dumpon.us/media/uploads/TAWLK_GUI_HORIZONTAL_V18_1.jp...
- x3c 15y agoHey Irvick, I think the timestamps on some content is coming out wrong. I saw a facebook update which had timestamp 42 years ago. I'm guessing Unix timestamp of 0 seconds. Also, I saw another tweet which showed 'a few seconds ago' but was actually posted a few days ago. Great product BTW. [Edit: Added a missed word]
- lrvick 15y agoThat date conversion mainly happens here https://github.com/Tawlk/hyve/blob/master/hyve.js#L208-211 https://github.com/Tawlk/hyve/blob/master/hyve.js#L208-211 which is fairly straight forward. I will have to do some more poking around to see whats going on. If you find any specific items that trigger this, please let me know so I can debug them individually.