espylaub

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   by espylaub 14y ago

   Let me refer to a great answer Lazare gave further up (more generally about sync, but very useful nonetheless): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5517632
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   by espylaub 14y ago

   No problem :) There are actually more than three of us working on Hoodie, one (actually two by now) of them an Irish national. The about section just lists the core team, if you will.
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   by espylaub 14y ago

   You have the option of requiring user confirmation via email (right now users are auto-confirmed by default). Non-confirmed users only write to their localStorage (so they can still use the app pre signup), but nothing (apart from their tin
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   by espylaub 14y ago

   Ah, sorry, I was referring to couchDB (which does sync and offline for us), not Hoodie itself. That's still very much under construction, of course.
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   by espylaub 14y ago

   Wow, thanks a lot for that, spot on!
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   by espylaub 14y ago

   "Moment of clarity" is a great cue. To me, Hoodie is enormously empowering (which is why I'm part of the Hoodie team). As a self-taught, non comp-sci frontend dev with a humanities degree I can get all the backend/DB stuff sorted, definitel