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What have you built with Elixir, HN?

rubiquity 12y ago
Personally, in production I've used it for basic web apps, WebSockets and background workers that do the heavy lifting for a web application written in another language such as Ruby. I've also talked to several others that are using Elixir for mobile game and Internet of Things back-ends. Now that I'm more comfortable with the language I'm looking to use it for something more ambitious, such as a messaging layer that's specific to a cluster of application's needs.
jtmoulia 12y ago
Not product-y, but I've built a PEG interface [1]. Long term goal is to use it for parsing in an IMAP library. [1] https://github.com/jtmoulia/neotomex https://github.com/jtmoulia/neotomex
chrismccord 12y ago
We're working on Phoenix, a highly connected web framework that aims to serve as a backend for all devices, whether your web browser, native mobile client, or smart oven. https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4132-elixirconf2014-rise-of-the-phoenix-building-an-elixir-web-framework http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4132-elixirconf2014-rise-of-...
DoggettCK 12y ago
I'm playing with replacing my Python analytics system with Elixir, piece by piece. Working on a little tool with it that'll convert our XML and JSON from two separate parts of the system to a common format.
wut42 12y ago
I'm writing (professionally) a backend for the "internet of things".
- peregrine 12y ago
  I've written a custom url shortener for a client.
- polskibus 12y ago
  Wow! I had the same idea not so long ago. Are you by any chance targetting Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity? If so, can you share a bit on how are you going to interface BLE with Elixir? If not, what kind of IoT connectivity are you targetting ?
  - wut42 12y ago
    Actually i'm not targetting any specific kind of devices — the core server is extensible, you add your own sources (tcp, udp, whatever) and your encoder/decoder. The original scope of the project was GPS beacons.
devinus 12y ago
Several web services in production right now.
Cyranix 12y ago
Ultimately didn't move past the proof-of-concept phase, but I wrote an implementation of distributed latent Dirichlet allocation for NLP.
evgen 12y ago
Packet creation and manipulation library I hope to open up soon.
slogsdon 12y ago
Professionally, we built ChatBlend[1], a live chat system that incorporates SMS conversations as well as standard web chats. Personally, I've built a few projects, most recently a HTTP REST toolkit [2]. [1] https://www.chatblend.com/ https://www.chatblend.com/ [2] https://github.com/slogsdon/placid https://github.com/slogsdon/placid
Scramblejams 12y ago
I wrote an RSS feed aggregator.
bismark 12y ago
We are using Elixir to build the first server implementation of our new decentralized communication protocol. Hit me up if that sounds interesting, we are looking to hire. Based in London/SF. ryan@spatch.co
edgurgel 12y ago
A Pusher server clone: https://github.com/edgurgel/poxa https://github.com/edgurgel/poxa

Personally, in production I've used it for basic web apps, WebSockets and background workers that do the heavy lifting for a web application written in another language such as Ruby. I've also talked to several others that are using Elixir for mobile game and Internet of Things back-ends. Now that I'm more comfortable with the language I'm looking to use it for something more ambitious, such as a messaging layer that's specific to a cluster of application's needs.

jtmoulia 12y ago

Not product-y, but I've built a PEG interface [1]. Long term goal is to use it for parsing in an IMAP library. [1] https://github.com/jtmoulia/neotomex https://github.com/jtmoulia/neotomex

chrismccord 12y ago

We're working on Phoenix, a highly connected web framework that aims to serve as a backend for all devices, whether your web browser, native mobile client, or smart oven. https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4132-elixirconf2014-rise-of-the-phoenix-building-an-elixir-web-framework http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4132-elixirconf2014-rise-of-...

DoggettCK 12y ago

I'm playing with replacing my Python analytics system with Elixir, piece by piece. Working on a little tool with it that'll convert our XML and JSON from two separate parts of the system to a common format.

wut42 12y ago

I'm writing (professionally) a backend for the "internet of things".

peregrine 12y ago
I've written a custom url shortener for a client.
polskibus 12y ago
Wow! I had the same idea not so long ago. Are you by any chance targetting Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity? If so, can you share a bit on how are you going to interface BLE with Elixir? If not, what kind of IoT connectivity are you targetting ?
- wut42 12y ago
  Actually i'm not targetting any specific kind of devices — the core server is extensible, you add your own sources (tcp, udp, whatever) and your encoder/decoder. The original scope of the project was GPS beacons.

devinus 12y ago

Several web services in production right now.

Cyranix 12y ago

Ultimately didn't move past the proof-of-concept phase, but I wrote an implementation of distributed latent Dirichlet allocation for NLP.

evgen 12y ago

Packet creation and manipulation library I hope to open up soon.

slogsdon 12y ago

Professionally, we built ChatBlend[1], a live chat system that incorporates SMS conversations as well as standard web chats. Personally, I've built a few projects, most recently a HTTP REST toolkit [2]. [1] https://www.chatblend.com/ https://www.chatblend.com/ [2] https://github.com/slogsdon/placid https://github.com/slogsdon/placid

Scramblejams 12y ago

I wrote an RSS feed aggregator.

bismark 12y ago

We are using Elixir to build the first server implementation of our new decentralized communication protocol. Hit me up if that sounds interesting, we are looking to hire. Based in London/SF. ryan@spatch.co

edgurgel 12y ago

A Pusher server clone: https://github.com/edgurgel/poxa https://github.com/edgurgel/poxa