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> 1) They kept saying that they were refreshing the project page to say when it'll hit 1M. Surely a company like Kickstarter has created visualization tools tha
by Aqua_Geek 15y ago
> 1) They kept saying that they were refreshing the project page to say when it'll hit 1M. Surely a company like Kickstarter has created visualization tools that create nice, real-time graphs of selected projects. No?
I found that odd as well. Where's the websocket goodness?
- acgourley 15y agoThis just in: Web-socket powered dashboards not necessary for success.
- Aqua_Geek 15y agoYou're right - they're not. I'm not trying to argue that they are, though. I just assumed that a company that's dependent on projects succeeding to make their living would have something more than "keep hitting refresh" in place to track big projects like these.
- VikingCoder 15y agoWell, a web-socket dashboard could potentially lower their bandwidth costs, when people start refreshing the whole page every 10 seconds, just to watch one number change.
- untog 15y agoWell, given that this is the first time it's happened, I'd imagine the need for such a thing was small until now.
- Aqua_Geek 15y agoThe need to track up to a million dollars was small, sure. But if you're revenue is based on these projects, wouldn't you want some sort of real-time counter of $$ being pledged? Maybe I'm just being a statistics nut...
- untog 15y agoOh, don't get me wrong, I am too. But I don't know how stretched Kickstarter's team are- while I'd love to see a stats counter like that on my own project, I rarely have the time to put one together.