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Why do these kind of tools have tendency to appear on HN about a month too late? :)

by tzaman 13y ago

slukehart 13y ago
Hey Tzaman, we wish we could have brought it to you sooner, I'd like to believe it will make you so efficient, you'll make up ground :)
- tzaman 13y ago
  I will certainly give it a shot - right now we are using pusher and manually pushing updated object both ways. Not very efficient but it works.
kops 13y ago
WebSocket book(oracle press) at the beginning of this month, TogetherJS a few days ago and now GoAngular/Instant. For me the timing couldn't have been better. TogetherJS has references to hosting your own server, but I couldn't find something similar on GoInstant. I am still digging around on their site though. BTW, what did you end up doing? Did you build something of your own? Any gotchas you would like to share? I am investigating if Nginx will co-operate with the websocket connections and what will be the price of maintaining live connections to a bunch of clients. I am kind of inclined to build and run my own server...
- ianl 13y ago
  You don't need a server, we offer our realtime collaborative stack as a service. We're cooking something up right now similar to TogetherJS, if you'd like a sneak peak drop me a email (in my profile). If you want to build and host your own realtime application take a look at HAProxy (tcp mode in 1.4) for load balancing the incoming websocket connections to your application stack. There has been a lot of success using Node.js with engine.io, socket.io, or take a look at the meta Primus module.
  - kops 13y ago
    Thanks a lot for all the pointers. Really appreciate it. BTW any plans to zero-in on the pricing anytime soon? I saw that for one app you will always keep it free, but it will be nice to know what happens beyond that..
    - ianl 13y ago
      We're working on pricing now. No timetable at the moment, but you do get 1 app for free. We know its really important and we're working on it now. We'd be happy to talk to you further about it and get your feedback.
      - kops 13y ago
        No worries. I will keep following it up on your website. Thanks,
- egeozcan 13y ago
  Check out Nombo[1]. I'm looking forward to trying it at the weekend. [1]: http://nombo.io/ http://nombo.io/
ma2rten 13y ago
Because you didn't post them a month ago.
wmf 13y ago
I think DerbyJS appeared on HN a year ago.

Why do these kind of tools have tendency to appear on HN about a month too late? :)

by tzaman 13y ago

Why do these kind of tools have tendency to appear on HN about a month too late? :)

Hey Tzaman, we wish we could have brought it to you sooner, I'd like to believe it will make you so efficient, you'll make up ground :)

tzaman 13y ago
I will certainly give it a shot - right now we are using pusher and manually pushing updated object both ways. Not very efficient but it works.

kops 13y ago

WebSocket book(oracle press) at the beginning of this month, TogetherJS a few days ago and now GoAngular/Instant. For me the timing couldn't have been better. TogetherJS has references to hosting your own server, but I couldn't find something similar on GoInstant. I am still digging around on their site though. BTW, what did you end up doing? Did you build something of your own? Any gotchas you would like to share? I am investigating if Nginx will co-operate with the websocket connections and what will be the price of maintaining live connections to a bunch of clients. I am kind of inclined to build and run my own server...

ianl 13y ago
You don't need a server, we offer our realtime collaborative stack as a service. We're cooking something up right now similar to TogetherJS, if you'd like a sneak peak drop me a email (in my profile). If you want to build and host your own realtime application take a look at HAProxy (tcp mode in 1.4) for load balancing the incoming websocket connections to your application stack. There has been a lot of success using Node.js with engine.io, socket.io, or take a look at the meta Primus module.
- kops 13y ago
  Thanks a lot for all the pointers. Really appreciate it. BTW any plans to zero-in on the pricing anytime soon? I saw that for one app you will always keep it free, but it will be nice to know what happens beyond that..
  - ianl 13y ago
    We're working on pricing now. No timetable at the moment, but you do get 1 app for free. We know its really important and we're working on it now. We'd be happy to talk to you further about it and get your feedback.
    - kops 13y ago
      No worries. I will keep following it up on your website. Thanks,
egeozcan 13y ago
Check out Nombo[1]. I'm looking forward to trying it at the weekend. [1]: http://nombo.io/ http://nombo.io/

ma2rten 13y ago

Because you didn't post them a month ago.

wmf 13y ago

I think DerbyJS appeared on HN a year ago.