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Show HN: Bootstrappers.io – A community for business bootstrappers
- konradb 12y agoDo you guys have a different audience/different emphasis than bootstrapped.fm? Either way, I saw some interesting links there. Thanks and best of luck!
- nickhould 12y agoThe audience we are targeting is very similar to Bootstrapped.fm. However, the type of community we aim to build is somewhat different: we want to be the Hacker News for bootstrappers, the site you go check on a daily basis to get the latest news of the community. Bootstrapped.fm discussions are a bit more forum-like.
- koomerang 12y agoLooks interesting :) What did you use to build site?
- danvoell 12y agohttp://www.telesc.pe/ http://www.telesc.pe/
- notduncansmith 12y agoLooks like Telescope (http://www.telesc.pe/ http://www.telesc.pe/), a Meteor framework for building HN-style community sites.
- nickhould 12y agoWe used telesc.pe. It's a great open source project. For this initial version of Bootstrappers.io, the site is basically what you get out if the box from telesc.pe. Major props to the makers of this open source project.
- sideproject 12y agoWould also check out postatic.com - there are quite a few startup-related communities on it already http://news.fwdkc.co http://news.fwdkc.co http://buildupnews.postatic.com http://buildupnews.postatic.com http://southstart.postatic.com http://southstart.postatic.com http://thenordicnews.postatic.com http://thenordicnews.postatic.com http://kwstartups.postatic.com http://kwstartups.postatic.com http://lawhackers.postatic.com http://lawhackers.postatic.com http://newsfintech.postatic.com http://newsfintech.postatic.com
- sschueller 12y agoLooks like it is built on Meteor.js. Has anyone used Meteor.js in production? What are some of the cons to watch out for?
- sgdesign 12y agoThere's quite a few production Meteor apps. One of my favorites is https://respond.ly https://respond.ly. There are a few more examples here: https://www.meteor.com/gallery https://www.meteor.com/gallery (although that page seems a little out of date)
- ahref 12y agohttp://spotting.meteor.com/ http://spotting.meteor.com/ by design will be more up to date.
- dnprock 12y agoWe use meteorjs in production. Check out https://vida.io https://vida.io.
- davidw 12y agoThere's also this: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
- sgdesign 12y agoI'm the main maintainer of Telescope. Great use of the app! I'm always excited to see a Telescope site make the front page of HN :)
- nickhould 12y agoSacha, awesome job on Telescope. Looking forward contributing to the project.
- henrygrew 12y agoi'm afraid i gave up on telescope once i tried it on a mobile browser, i was dissapointed.
- sgdesign 12y agoWhy? What happened? I worked a lot on the mobile version recently, is it better now?
- junto 12y agoOut of interest, can Telescope do standard paging rather than "endless mores"?
- sgdesign 12y agoNo, because "standard" paging doesn't work well for real-time apps (or even non-real time, imho. Anyway it's a complex topic…). That being said, Telescope's pagination is reflected in the URL. So if you page 4 times and you refresh the page, you won't lose your place.
- ahmadss 12y agounrelated, but are you still actively maintaining Folyo?
- mijustin 12y agoI know Sacha is still working on it, yup! His recent post on the $5 logo got a lot of traction: http://blog.folyo.me/the-5-dollar-logo/ http://blog.folyo.me/the-5-dollar-logo/
- untothebreach 12y agoLove it! Only gripe is the plaintext HTTP login form. Any plans to support HTTPS?
- nickhould 12y agoThanks for the feedback! It's in the plans to add HTTPS support.
- DoubleMalt 12y agoSorry guys, but there is no excuse not to use https at this day and age. No SSL no dice. Other than that I'd be super interested in your site :)
- rosspanda 12y agoDoes it have a lag or admin approval on the stories, i just posted a blog post and it does not show.
- rosspanda 12y agoits just popped up :-)
- nickhould 12y agoI'm looking for moderators of the community. Please reach me at nick.hould [@] gmail.com.
- faizshah 12y agoOne thing I like about the way subreddit's pages are is they often have a sidebar wiki that contains a recommended book list, some recommended reading, beginner tutorials, related communities and forums etc. It might be a good idea to add something similar, just an idea.
- nickhould 12y agoGreat idea. Any specific ressources you are thinking about?
- junto 12y agoThere are loads of classic startup / lean books out there. You could monetize those with amazon affiliate links.
- faizshah 12y agoThat's a great idea! You could pay for server costs with that, I doubt you could make a lot of money doing that though.
- Rainymood 12y agoThe Lean Startup - Eric Ries Essays (any) - Paul Graham I personally enjoyed "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards as well.
- jusben1369 12y agoAlthough 2 out of 3 of those mentioned are really bootstrapped focused but rather funding focused people?
- wj 12y agoStart Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
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- fookyong 12y agoNot sure why but for me (Mac/Chrome) the page keeps jumping to the top every 5 seconds when I'm viewing a comment thread on Bootstrappers.io
- nickhould 12y agoWill dig into this. Any other persons experiencing this issue? The project still might have a few glitches. By the way, thanks for the feedback.
- j21 12y agoExperiencing the same issue on Android/Chrome. Nice site btw :)
- mikeleeorg 12y agoI'm getting this on Chrome/Mac too. And like everyone else said, great site!
- instakill 12y agoI usually experience this with Firefox and it has to do with forms having focus set to true/default.
- basher 12y agoditto on mac safari.
- sgdesign 12y agoThat's actually my fault, it's a Telescope bug. It was fixed in one of the recent updates, but I guess the site was probably running a slightly outdated version.
- hotgoldminer 12y agoNot sure, I believe HN has choked the site? Trying to register and hangs.
- nickhould 12y agoShould be fixed. My current setup doesn't really support the load of HN + ProductHunt
- samsolomon 12y agoHey Nick, cool to see one of your projects pop-up! I've been wondering what you've been up to. A bit of feedback—Unfortunately, it appears that the site is continuously loading. I'm sure its because you're on the front page. Also, having the user manually add callbacks for Twitter seems odd.
- nickhould 12y agoHey Sam, I did a few fixes that should enable the loading of the site. Wasn't expecting 10K+ page views in a few hours. I will look into the Twitter issue. Thanks for the feedback!
- sgdesign 12y ago> Also, having the user manually add callbacks for Twitter seems odd. That does sound very odd. Can you describe the problem? When did that happen?
- enriquegonzalez 12y agoAwesome job Nick! I've been meaning to get into Meteor.
- nickhould 12y agoThanks for the feedback Enrique.
- lquist 12y agoFirst: Thanks for creating this! Second: IMHO, I really do think this suffers from being a single page app. It's essentially an HN clone. Would HN be better if it was a single page app? No, it would probably be worse.
- sgdesign 12y agoTelescope creator here. You're not wrong, there's definitely some downsides to Telescope being a single-page app. The two big ones are a longer initial loading time, and making it harder to cache the app. That being said, there are also advantages: for example, once the initial load is done, the next page loads are pretty much instant. In any case, I'm hoping that Meteor eventually implements server-side template rendering. When that happens, Meteor apps like Telescope will in theory benefit from the advantages of both static and single-page apps.
- jargonster 12y agoGetting spammed by a 4channer
- cheepin 12y agoRemove the unsafe package asap, and do database operations the safe way. edit: For downvoters, the author has the 'development mode' package still in the project which allows you full read/write to the database without any credentials from the web console. All that is necessary is for someone to guess the name of one of the collections.
- sgdesign 12y agoWhat made you say that? Maybe it's changed now but I don't think the site had that package? Were you able to modify content through the browser console?
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- himanshuy 12y agoNice site Nick. I am learning meteor these days. Good use of the Telescope application.
- nickhould 12y agoThanks for the feedback.