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by dickeytk 15y ago
I guess I feel that since it's SO simple and obvious it isn't worth anything. It was more of an itch I wanted to scratch, so I did.
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by dickeytk 15y ago
Maybe the rickroll could start out quiet but just get louder and the other callers get quieter until you pay!
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by dickeytk 15y ago
I do like that they don't charge dev rates, but it does cost 3x as much in production. And twilio works great with ruby, callinwith.us is a rails app. Although if I needed international support I guess that would be an issue. Being a naive
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by dickeytk 15y ago
Most of it is just what you get on a standard Rails app. The interesting stuff is right here: https://github.com/dickeytk/callinwithus/blob/master/app/con...
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by dickeytk 15y ago
ooo! I love it! How could I communicate that though? I don't track emails. I COULD send an sms afterwards, but I don't have a good way to figure out who was the originator of the conference call. Maybe I could just put a side note on the pa
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by dickeytk 15y ago
You are correct. Oddly it looks fine on OSX. Maybe I could just remove the tilt or something? Not sure how to fix it otherwise.
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by dickeytk 15y ago
I saw that one, and it looks great. Definitely the best thing out there I could find. My two problems though: 1. It's in private beta. 2. Not sure I the dinosaur theme is something I would want outside clients to see, although I personally
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by dickeytk 15y ago
Honestly, Twilio's API is so well done I don't believe my code is worth anything. However, it's available here: https://github.com/dickeytk/callinwithus for anyone to take a look at if they're curious how it works.
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by dickeytk 15y ago
From a UX perspective, it'd be great, unfortunately getting advertisers hooked into their system would need much more work than it took to actually build the project in the first place. I was thinking of just putting it out for free until i
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by dickeytk 15y ago
Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill. Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha
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by dickeytk 15y ago
I like it, very straightforward. It is screen sharing though, which isn't quite what I was looking for.
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by dickeytk 15y ago
pollback is definitely not RESTful, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Both methods can work for different scenarios. Also, you could look into long polling using redis or something.
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by dickeytk 15y ago
I made an entire conference call application in like 2 hours. Not for no reason though, I was unable to find a simple conference calling service. Typing 'simple conference calling' into google comes up with crap like this: http://www.freec
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Twilio has an incredible API(callinwith.us)
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by dickeytk 15y ago
Wow I was just about to start going through the pain of using urllib2 for the millionth time right before I read this.
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by dickeytk 16y ago
This is great. I've seen slight issues though. On my phone (iPhone 4) when I was clicking around the todo lists, they responded very slowly to my taps and I was able to highlight todo lists without actually going to them. However, I love th
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by dickeytk 16y ago
I thought rails was a pain to set up until I got a mac. That's not an advertisement for osx though, it's just what rails is catered for. I would love to see better support on other platforms. This includes linux, it's easier than osx, but t
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by dickeytk 16y ago
gotcha! the hosted platform is killer! When I want to take the dive into node, I'll be sure to try this out!
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by dickeytk 16y ago
Love your ninja
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by dickeytk 16y ago
so you need EC2 to use NodeFu? Not a dealbreaker, but I didn't get that from the splash page.
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by dickeytk 16y ago
it's not groundbreaking, but it's something that I've slowly been getting better and better at. It seems with python at least, it's a puzzle and you gotta know about each piece to make it work.
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by dickeytk 16y ago
I would definitely be inclined to go with the Joyent service since that's where Ryan Dahl (creator of node) works. And Heroku pretty much rules this realm. But competitors are good!!
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by dickeytk 16y ago
yeah I freaked out when I first saw how it worked. Everyone was annoyed with me. I don't even want to make webapps that aren't ruby with heroku around.
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by dickeytk 16y ago
right, CI was the wrong term there, just that you're using your automated testing to make sure your deployments won't crash. This really is the way to go for developing software, deployment should be painless. I would like to see some sort
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by dickeytk 16y ago
yeah, I agree. I LIKE it, but for a W3C logo? A standard? It's a bit much.
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by dickeytk 16y ago
I would like to see something like this integrated into 750words now that you mention it
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by dickeytk 16y ago
You sound like a Python guy, but that's exactly how Heroku works. It totally sold me on the idea of just pushing to your production/staging repo to update a server. I imagine to set it up yourself would be a bit of work, but it sounds like
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by dickeytk 16y ago
I prefer uservoice to getsatisfaction, it doesn't have as many features, but it's easier to use. I think that's more important for a social support tool
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by dickeytk 16y ago
Absolutely fantastic welcome page, I got it immediately
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by dickeytk 16y ago
I love the design of your home page, the CTA and copywriting is spot on. The one thing I think you could do without is the "Get e on your phone". It's out of place and too big. If I want to download your app I'm just going to go to the app

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