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Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps
- davedx 14y agoIt looks really nice, I think I'll try and sneak this into my new portfolio website for an experiment. Thanks for posting and good luck!
- dergraf 14y agoThanks for the comment! every feedback is very much appreciated!
- Swizec 14y agoThis is offtopic, but the main admin of a forum I've been on for the past 7 years is called Tambur. Either this is an uncanny concidence, or Hello Tambur!
- Kudos 14y agoA Tambur is a musical instrument. Learn to google, please.
- Swizec 14y agoThat wasn't the point. And I actually played a version of the tambur as a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburica
- Kudos 14y agoThat was the point, your suggestion was that it was either an uncanny coincidence (really?) or someone you know. My contention was that as a word that returns two and a half million results on Google, it was obviously neither.
- Swizec 14y agoTwo and a half million results doesn't make this word very common at all. Even "frolicking" returns twice that. Besides, looking through the first two pages of those results, most are people's last names.
- Kudos 14y ago"Even" frolicking? Frolicking is a pretty common word. If it was called frolicking.io and you knew someone who went by the username, you would similarly assume it was either an uncanny coincidence or it was that person you knew?
- 5l 14y agoThank you, both of you, for such a relevant and intellectually stimulating discussion.
- Kudos 14y agoBlame the lack of a downvote button on my account.
- Swizec 14y agoProbably not because it's a verb. But I might, because finding small relationships between things makes life more interesting. And now I'm very intrigued if there's a database of all or most english words ranked by their frequency. Something like the full Oxford English Dictionary, but with frequency ranks.
- andypants 14y agoDoes this have any special features compared to pusher, pubnub, etc.?
- dergraf 14y agoMaybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans. As pusher we are big fans of WebSockets, afaik pubnub uses some sort of long-polling for their message-handling. I am not sure if pubnub provides a way to trigger presence events. Pusher also provides these features afaik by using separate channels for e.g. presence events (not sure though). In Tambur you enable presence-events, direct- and authenticated messages on the same channel (we call them streams). So we probably have more in common with pusher than with pubnub feature-wise, we just do things a little bit differently.
- 5l 14y agoMaybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans Well it's won you one customer here at least. I'm really sick of companies charging extra for security.
- dergraf 14y agowow, that's great to know! let us know if we can help you to get started with your apps!
- pc86 14y agoTambur.io looks great. Another alternative if someone is looking for hosted SSL on a free plan would be Buddy http://www.buddy.com/pricing/ http://www.buddy.com/pricing/, free for the first half million API calls with unlimited applications. Pretty steep at $250/mo for 500,001-10MM calls.
- dergraf 14y agowe didn't know about buddy.com, but it is good to see a trend towards 'security included' ;)
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- dergraf 14y agoTambur.io started as a weekend project 10 months ago and now faces the (hackernews) crowd
- nagrom 14y agoI love the info bar in the middle of the site; the design is very pretty! I'd like more information (maybe code examples?) when I click on the sections (Publish/Subscribe, Direct Messaging, etc.) without having to sign up. Right now, you're asking me to create an account without having a terribly clear idea of what I am actually signing up to. (actually, I just realised that you have a 'how it works' section...that should be easier to find, I think! It is more or less exactly what I want when I try clicking on your 'publish/subscribe' section on the info bar.) Good luck with your site!
- dergraf 14y agothanks for your feedback.. we really appreciate it!
- Kudos 14y agoIt's nice to see someone using Zurb Foundation for a change ;)
- dergraf 14y agohaha indeed, that's the hidden reason why we switched from a first bootstrap version to foundation.
- illdave 14y agoCongratulations on launching. Really interesting idea with lots of potential, nice work.
- dergraf 14y agothanks for the kind words!
- wodow 14y agoI would love to see a demo linked from the home page.
- dergraf 14y agothanks for the pointer... since it is that simple we definitely have to provide a small demo.
- macspoofing 14y agoLooks nice, but what's the difference between Tambur.io and: • http://www.buddy.com/ http://www.buddy.com/ • http://js.dotcloud.com/ http://js.dotcloud.com/ • https://cloudmine.me/ https://cloudmine.me/ • http://backlift.github.com/docs/ http://backlift.github.com/docs/ • http://www.meteor.com/main http://www.meteor.com/main • https://parse.com/about/index https://parse.com/about/index • http://derbyjs.com/ http://derbyjs.com/ • http://www.kinvey.com/ http://www.kinvey.com/ • http://www.stackmob.com/ http://www.stackmob.com/ • http://www.appcelerator.com/cloud http://www.appcelerator.com/cloud • http://pusher.com/ http://pusher.com/ • http://www.firebase.com/ http://www.firebase.com/ • http://www.pubnub.com/ http://www.pubnub.com/ • https://www.getbridge.com/ https://www.getbridge.com/
- pc86 14y agoThis is an important question I think should be answered
- afaict 14y agoWell, I can't describe all the services you listed - we didn't even know all of them. We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend, but I'm not denying there is similarity to other push services (hope they have tons of customers :)
- macspoofing 14y ago>We started by really focusing on websockets Don't focus on the underlying tech, especially in your marketing material. Your users don't (and shouldn't) care. Devs who are going to use your product, won't be using web-sockets (and in fact, your library has fallback to flash sockets so in fact they may not), they'll be using your library, and if your library, works and gives them good performance, does it matter if underneath it uses, flash sockets or web-sockets or comet or ajax or a combination of all or black magic? >We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend. So is there any reason why someone would choose you guys over the others (most of whom support Web and Mobile clients)?
- saiko-chriskun 14y agoSeeing as pusher offers more bang for your buck, how does tambur differ?