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by janl 12y ago
This is different from CouchDB’s peer-to-peer or master-less replication where nodes can live all over the world, be offline for arbitrary amounts of time or even be phones or web-browsers.
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by janl 12y ago
CouchDB dev here. PouchDB is an amazing companion to the world of syncing databases and the CouchDB devs couldn’t be happier that the PouchDB devs are going to such great lengths pushing the sync vision of CouchDB to all sorts of browsers a
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by janl 12y ago
BYOBaaS: Bring Your Own Backend as a Service. Open Source, bootstrapped funding model, easy to use, Offline First, private data by default, cute domain name: http://hood.ie — Very Fast [Web] App Development. Previous HN discussi
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by janl 12y ago
works for me™
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by janl 12y ago
Yes, the grunt dependency turns of a few folks, but this is the first iteration and it builds on top of quite some existing grunt tooling. Replacing this would take quite some more time, but this is open source, so please help make this mor
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by janl 12y ago
Good use of emoji in the tl;dr there.
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by janl 12y ago
We are ways off, but my personal goal for http://hood.ie is to be able to allow people to build gmail/gdocs competitors without having to do any heavy lifting. We could use your help, though :)
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by janl 12y ago
@whit537 big fan of Gittip, but inviting misogynists onto your platform is not the right thing to do.
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by janl 12y ago
The default is keeping the data, but app devs can implement a pruning method as well, to make things suitable for shared browsers and such.
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by janl 12y ago
End users only ever see JavaScript in the frontend. Some backend heavy lifting is done in Node and developers can extend that writing plugins in Node as well.
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by janl 12y ago
Yes comma but :) — We have a production app, but we are very comfortable running Hoodie in production ourselves, of course. The app has 10k registered users and some decent, but no overwhelming traffic. For similar scenarios, Hoodie is defi
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by janl 12y ago
No technical reason, we are just lacking the person-power to tackle Android now. It should be straightforward to port from the iOS and web versions and we’d be super happy if someone would take that on :)
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by janl 12y ago
Yeah, it looks like the target audiences squarely overlap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppJet doesn’t look like it had a focus on offline-first. And Hoodie is not a hosted platform but an Open Source project more aki
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by janl 12y ago
Also Gittip: https://www.gittip.com/hoodiehq/ <3 :)
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by janl 12y ago
Cool! Glad to see more of this on the table :)
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by janl 12y ago
You basically nailed it :) — Hoodie is probably further along that it might seem. The team has been working on earlier iterations of this for nearly a decade now, and we have learned a lot along the way, allowing us to be very concise this
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by janl 12y ago
Heya @reconbot, I don’t know if this specific system has a name, but it is something akin to a messaging bus, where clients and servers just exchange messages, if they have a network connection. Messages can carry raw data (a user record),
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by janl 12y ago
Yup: https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-plugin-global-share
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by janl 12y ago
trade secret, sorry :)
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by janl 12y ago
Not that we are aware of. Could you please open an issue at https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-server/issues/new , and post your error messages? We're happy to help
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by janl 12y ago
yeah, my point here is that Meteor gives full-stack (yuck) developers all they need to build quick apps. Hoodie targets UX/Designers/Code-copy-and-pasters. Full-tack devs will be incredibly quick with Hoodie, like they would with
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by janl 12y ago
Yeah, we are working on a website redesign that addresses this. So much to do, so little time :)
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by janl 12y ago
There, I fixed it :) https://github.com/espy/hoodie-plugin-tutorial/pull/13
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by janl 12y ago
An e-commerce platform on Hoodie would also do final validations server-side.
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by janl 12y ago
We also encourage people not to use Hoodie in production, yet :) What @gr2m means: there is no reason Hoodie’s mail feature would work any different from a traditional web app. At some point a server side will validate a client request, and
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by janl 12y ago
Some more infos here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768434
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by janl 12y ago
It’s cozy, and friendly, and comfortable, and warm, and fuzzy: take your pick :)
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by janl 12y ago
Hoodie is Open Source and more like BYOBAAS (Bring Your Own Backend As A Service), you can host it yourself, or pay someone to host it for you. You are not beholden to single company’s VCs. Meteor is about exposing backend and frontend APIs
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by janl 12y ago
Excellent point. We will make this more clear. Conflicts are detected for you, like in version control systems. You need to resolve them yourself, or you can implement a server-wins/client-wins/last-write-wins scenario, if you wan
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by janl 12y ago
I’m a Hoodie developer, I know what Hoodie does and doesn’t. That disclaimer is just there because some of the things don’t yet work as documented. The particular feature is definitely in existence :)

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