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by Cherian 14y ago
You are right. The best solution is separation of services. But for a startup than runs 7-2 services like this – it’s a close call. You’ll often have to run 2-3 services together, else $100 * 7 machines is too much burn
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by Cherian 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Corrected. Call this a hacker’s laziness + Yahoo chat room era slangs.
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This is wonderful feedback. We’ll definetly look into this.
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by Cherian 14y ago
Cucumbertown co-founder here. Actually I dislike this idea though we should have been better prepared. At my previous firm we had this culture that whenever traffic peaks we spin up new instances. And tools like RightScale & Chef make i
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by Cherian 14y ago
Agree, this was the Achilles heel. It was total blunder not testing full text. In our defense this page was supposed to be HTTP cached and that didn’t happen which led to this domino effect.
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by Cherian 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Cucumbertown is very UX focused and from our research we came to a conclusion that our “aha” moment is to get you to the fastest possible way to write a recipe and give you that bout of joy. Now being hackers, we’d
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by Cherian 14y ago
When we did the beta, I posted the launch details on HN and you’ll be surprised by the amount of constructive feedback and users that we got. Cucumbertown now has users from devs to CEO’s who came in through HN and are now engaged users. Cu
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by Cherian 14y ago
We use DataDog - http://www.datadoghq.com/ . It’s a statsd, graphite manifestation but with much more capabilities. Stack is Python, Django, PostgreSql, Redis, Memcache etc.
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by Cherian 14y ago
Cucumbertown co-founder here. Nginx was serving the cache and our sense was it was caching. But then the day before we put in csrf validation to the login form and it was bypassing the caching. So in theory we were positioned to serve from
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by Cherian 14y ago
Couldn’t agree more. This is one of those reasons why I desist have lawyers, media gurus, MBA (just business) as bosses of “Tech” companies. They just don’t have it in them to jump in and out of situations to think through the most trivial
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by Cherian 14y ago
My startup cucumbertown.com is hit with similar issues. Initially we blocked all Ec2[1] & spamhaus ip list. But then realized Flipboard proxies[2], some blog aggregation proxies etc are based on Ec2 machines. What would be a good way to
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by Cherian 14y ago
It’s a UX battle that we’r trying to conquer. We are just getting started!.
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by Cherian 14y ago
Sorry, HN traffic crashed us. Back up now.
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by Cherian 14y ago
No
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Talk about cultures. We are a team of 4 people in 3 continents, none of whom have seen each other http://www.cucumbertown.com/humans and all through our dev process this never struck us. Guess we are the angels on earth. There is a story
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by Cherian 14y ago
Sorry about that. We just launched and is testing waters. The site is in beta state and we approve people along the way. I’ve approved on HN folks in queue now. I didn’t see Tucker there. Hop in…
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by Cherian 14y ago
For the hacker in us, we’ve built a short-hand notation for writing recipes http://dnhk.me/xSkc I always wanted this as a cook & hacker. Not spend too much time writing a recipe from scratch. More importantly DRY.
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by Cherian 14y ago
You don’t see it since the post recipe is for the users under login. But here’s a peep. http://d.pr/i/DB3L When you try to write a recipe, we figure out if the recipe exists and suggests a “Write a variation”. The variation is essentially
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by Cherian 14y ago
Execution truly does. The name bit is a bit surprising to me. As an Indian the name struck with everyone. But when I came over to the US, the feedback for the name from the average user was – I’d say not so great.
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by Cherian 14y ago
Dear community, We just launched http://tcrn.ch/REN2RU our public beta.
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by Cherian 14y ago
Sorry, if it’s confusing. What we meant is Cucumbertown allows recipes to be forked and changed upon.
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Show HN: Fork recipes on the "Github for food"(cucumbertown.com)
28 points by Cherian 14y ago|23 comments
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by Cherian 14y ago
I run this as a combination of monit timestamp checking and stdout to a file. Is there anything this does that I cannot do this without monit? e.g. MAILTO=email@ops.com 1 23 * * * /home/cron/backup.sh 1> /backups/backup and monit doing
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by Cherian 14y ago
Not to discourage the project (love the interface), but isn’t this far easier to do client side than to send it to a server all the time? If there is a js lib that makes use of canvas then I am ready to buy a license. Also do you provide ad
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by Cherian 14y ago
Mumbai is an excellent case for dissection.
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by Cherian 14y ago
AngelList Docs user here. The docs make it pretty much a tabular affair. Choose the cap, the money, the discount, acquisition multiples, etc and you are done. This makes for easy work, both with your lawyer and the investors.
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by Cherian 14y ago
Cherian from Cucumbertown ( http://www.cucumbertown.com/ ) here. I think we were among companies to do the AngelList Docs online. Can answer related questions. Edit: First
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Githubs hutbot: Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space(speakerdeck.com)
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by Cherian 14y ago
YQL is an amazing piece of technology with robust infrastructure to support it. I was first introduced to it at a Yahoo Hackday in Bangalore and since then I’ve used it to to hack up a lot of small scripts. Like this http://userscripts.org
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by Cherian 14y ago
One of the tricks I’ve learned and I think it stands vindicated now is to use the English translation of my vernacular language words as passwords. They stick on to your memory unlike "My first car was a 1972 Monte Carlo" I come from down-s

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