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Show HN: Houston – Zero-config Admin for Meteor

37 points by AlexeyMK 13y ago

AlexeyMK 13y ago
We've been working on Houston since originally building it for the Meteor hackathon this summer, and it's starting to be fairly robust and presentable. Would love more Meteor hackers to try it out in their projects and send feedback/requests. Also, I'll be at the Meteor Devshop this afternoon - come say hi!
- ajre 13y ago
  Looks nice, will try it on the web app I am currently building with Meteor. Does it or will it support migration of MongoDB data from different instances. Say for example, I've deployed onto <some_domain>.meteor.com and next want to deploy to a production instance at modulus.io, then migrate my data.
  - AlexeyMK 13y ago
    Houston doesn't currently handle that natively, but it just so happens I wrote a script that handles migrating (or at least downloading) for you recently. See https://github.com/AlexeyMK/meteor-download https://github.com/AlexeyMK/meteor-download
marbemac 13y ago
Very cool! I'll give it a go in my project over the weekend and shoot you some feedback.
- AlexeyMK 13y ago
  Looking forward to it. My email is on my profile
seiji 13y ago
My initial thought at the name: We're naming projects after Internet famous founders now? I call dibs on Projects Altman and Collison.
- 10char 13y ago
  Houston continues the tradition of "Meteor" puns - see Galaxy[0], Atmosphere[1], etc. [0]: http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-million-development-budget http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-millio... [1]: https://atmosphere.meteor.com/package/houston https://atmosphere.meteor.com/package/houston
markrickert 13y ago
"Houston" is already the name of a popular open source project by Mattt Thompson - https://github.com/nomad/houston https://github.com/nomad/houston
- benologist 13y ago
  It's the name of many things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_(disambiguation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_(disambiguation) https://github.com/search?q=houston&source=cc https://github.com/search?q=houston&source=cc
  - plcancel 13y ago
    I love the name choice.
    - AlexeyMK 13y ago
      Thanks! Yeah, it's always tough. FWIW, Drew Houston is pretty cool too.
sebkomianos 13y ago
Very nice to see the Meteor community really producing stuff, I think the success of such frameworks depends at least 50% to this.
hhorsley 13y ago
Isn't Greg involved with this?
- Eon_Cyber 13y ago
  Yeah, I think so. What a swell guy!

37 points by AlexeyMK 13y ago

We've been working on Houston since originally building it for the Meteor hackathon this summer, and it's starting to be fairly robust and presentable. Would love more Meteor hackers to try it out in their projects and send feedback/requests. Also, I'll be at the Meteor Devshop this afternoon - come say hi!

ajre 13y ago
Looks nice, will try it on the web app I am currently building with Meteor. Does it or will it support migration of MongoDB data from different instances. Say for example, I've deployed onto <some_domain>.meteor.com and next want to deploy to a production instance at modulus.io, then migrate my data.
- AlexeyMK 13y ago
  Houston doesn't currently handle that natively, but it just so happens I wrote a script that handles migrating (or at least downloading) for you recently. See https://github.com/AlexeyMK/meteor-download https://github.com/AlexeyMK/meteor-download

marbemac 13y ago

Very cool! I'll give it a go in my project over the weekend and shoot you some feedback.

AlexeyMK 13y ago
Looking forward to it. My email is on my profile

seiji 13y ago

My initial thought at the name: We're naming projects after Internet famous founders now? I call dibs on Projects Altman and Collison.

10char 13y ago
Houston continues the tradition of "Meteor" puns - see Galaxy[0], Atmosphere[1], etc. [0]: http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-million-development-budget http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-millio... [1]: https://atmosphere.meteor.com/package/houston https://atmosphere.meteor.com/package/houston

markrickert 13y ago

"Houston" is already the name of a popular open source project by Mattt Thompson - https://github.com/nomad/houston https://github.com/nomad/houston

benologist 13y ago
It's the name of many things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_(disambiguation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_(disambiguation) https://github.com/search?q=houston&source=cc https://github.com/search?q=houston&source=cc
- plcancel 13y ago
  I love the name choice.
  - AlexeyMK 13y ago
    Thanks! Yeah, it's always tough. FWIW, Drew Houston is pretty cool too.

sebkomianos 13y ago

Very nice to see the Meteor community really producing stuff, I think the success of such frameworks depends at least 50% to this.

hhorsley 13y ago

Isn't Greg involved with this?

Eon_Cyber 13y ago
Yeah, I think so. What a swell guy!