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by bobfunk 13y ago
Tip: you can host apps like this for free on https://www.bitballoon.com without the bandwidth limits you might run into on DropBox. It'll also minify your scripts and CSS and serve all assets with cache-friendly URLs from a
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by bobfunk 13y ago
So, Tara from YC told me that the problem was that the post set off the voting ring detector. We don't have anything like a voting ring, but we obviously did tell people about launching BitBalloon in a Show HN. Seems we shouldn't
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Thanks, that script is really neat. Installed now.
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Sometimes getting voted on is not enough. Posted a Show HN for BitBalloon yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6285205 ). Got up-votes enough to go on the front-page, but a few minutes after it hit front-page, it
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Good suggestion. We'll definitively do something to give more control over the "Thank You" page.
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Founder here. Some background: We've been working on http://www.webpop.com , a powerful cloud-hosted CMS aimed at designers and agencies, for some years now. One thing we noticed was that people would sometimes use it to get
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Show HN: BitBalloon, insta-deployment of static sites with forms that just work(bitballoon.com)
24 points by bobfunk 13y ago|7 comments
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Working on a product for dead-simple CDN backed hosting for static websites with performance optimizations built in, called BitBalloon ( https://www.bitballoon.com ). Shoot me a note at mathias@bitballoon.com if you're intere
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Mentioned it further down in the thread, but working on a really easy way ( http://www.bitballoon.com ) to get a static site online and backed by a CDN (and we do support uploading a .zip). What kind of control do you feel you lac
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S3 works for static websites but in general the latency without Cloudfront in front is not that good. I'm actually working on something that'll make it incredibly fast to get a static site up and running with a powerful CDN and ge
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by bobfunk 13y ago
I don't think it's funny because it's racist, I think it's funny because it reveals what kind of embarrassing data a security hole like this brings out.
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Heh, Power4Home System ordered by "I.hate.niggers@microsoft.com" ... https://www.clkbank.com/orderDetail.htm?rcpt=504d78866YCRFEF...
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Mozilla Persona: Say goodbye to passwords(webpop.com)
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Yeah, been doing it that way for the signup form on Webpop for a while now (albeit with a different animation).
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Found out about external fonts not showing up in FireFox (or Safari) the hard way myself. So thought I would share the solution :)
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Speeding up your Webfonts(webpop.com)
20 points by bobfunk 13y ago|2 comments
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John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell(twitter.com)
330 points by bobfunk 13y ago|137 comments
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If you're not super keen on spending time on this yourself and don't want to give up any convenience of a fully dynamic site, that's part of what we built Webpop ( http://www.webpop.com ) for... Of course tweaking web servers and playing wi
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Our recent post on the Webpop blog about a/b testing a puppy photo ( http://www.webpop.com/blog/2013/04/16/can-a-puppy-sell-a-cms ) got to #2 as well. Sat at a pretty constant 250 online visitors for hours. Pretty sure the brief peak must
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Had the same experience, found it easier to just read the code .
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Well, it's worth noting that while we're interested in the general science of puppies and conversions, our end goal with this test was not to determine the exact value of the puppy picture, but just generally finding the best way to get peo
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Great suggestion - would be interesting to put a smiling person against the doggy
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Can a Puppy Sell a CMS?(webpop.com)
177 points by bobfunk 13y ago|65 comments
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Webpop announcing Compass support for their cloud code editor(webpop.com)
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JS: How to Function?(mathias-biilmann.net)
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Pushed a fix - should work in IE10 as well now.
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Waypoints is more mature and can do much more complex stuff, but as with my earlier response about affix, for our use-case of pinning an unpinning the descriptions of the screenshots in our gallery, Waypoints didn't really come with anythin
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by bobfunk 14y ago
The Network tab in my inspector shows that the Neuton font family from Google fonts that you're having problems with is a whooping 649 Bytes. I'm OK with that...
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The difference is being able to specify a containing element, so the pinned part gets unpinned once you scroll past the bottom of the container. We first developed the plugin for the Webpop gallery page ( http://www.webpop.com/gallery ) to
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Show HN: jQuery.pin – a plugin for making stuff stick(webpop.github.com)
65 points by bobfunk 14y ago|36 comments

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