joshowens

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by joshowens 13y ago
Meteor.js is built on top of node, connect, and socket.io... Not really much magic here either, once you dig into it - just like any framework.
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by joshowens 13y ago
Have you tried a ShowHN post? Relevant reddit channels?
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by joshowens 13y ago
It may be an issue with data loading slow? Works for me on my iphone...
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by joshowens 13y ago
Nice, I fell into this very trap with http://follower.io.. . We let our first 10 customers or so drive our feedback and direction picking. It was only when we stepped back and started using our own product that we came out with
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by joshowens 13y ago
Can't wait to read more, great start!
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by joshowens 13y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this list. I wrote an app, http://follower.io/ , which identifies people to "cold tweet". Very interesting stuff.
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by joshowens 13y ago
The blog post is gone... guess that sums up the counter-argument? :)
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by joshowens 13y ago
Try to break it into smaller pieces and take the "debt snowball" approach of killing off the smaller pieces first. Celebrate your wins.
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by joshowens 13y ago
Perfect, I am at this exact spot! My startup launched and we got around 100 signups, but none of them are coming back. I guess I should push hard to really talk to as many as I can. Thanks for putting new context on the lean startup metho
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by joshowens 13y ago
Yeah, good point, I didn't even mention Microsoft. I've used open source to live without them for decades, I guess.
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The 'deeper why' of open source(thoughts.unicoder.io)
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by joshowens 13y ago
Yes, and you can control a list of user agents that it activates for.
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by joshowens 13y ago
Without the drama, this post with a different title would have fallen off the front page in about 15 minutes.
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by joshowens 13y ago
A day we didn't spend for Meteor, for sure. Tradeoffs.
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by joshowens 13y ago
Great idea!
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by joshowens 13y ago
I'd be willing to go toe to toe on building a clone in Meteor while you build it in rails.
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by joshowens 13y ago
Sure they could. Maybe we could just switch to assembler?
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by joshowens 13y ago
I see realtime as a great side effect coming with the framework, to be honest. Meteor itself makes it easier to write clean client side JS code where I care much less about the backend when I start.
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by joshowens 13y ago
Perhaps I should write a quick event to highlight words as they get fixed in realtime :)
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by joshowens 13y ago
Sure: http://www.shinglecentral.com/ http://assistant.io/ http://lister.io/ Are just a few from the last 1.5 months.
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by joshowens 13y ago
Wow, thx for sharing! I would love to talk to you more about what you are building - josh AT differential.io
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by joshowens 13y ago
We generally build MVP apps for clients, we are a venture shop. I do think Meteor could be used for most web app cases and the ones it doesn't fit for now will be taken care of in the near term.
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by joshowens 13y ago
So it is ok to go build a node.js REST api and slap Angular.js on it and somehow that is better? You really should care what language/framework the server side is built in because someone has to work on it...
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by joshowens 13y ago
Insecure is there to help speed development when you are getting started. All frameworks can do their best to compensate for security holes, but ultimately people need to pay attention to it. That being said, Meteor offers a call method an
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by joshowens 13y ago
I am sitting at a Meteor unconf today and we are talking about scalability of Meteor... There are some very interesting pieces coming out in the next month to really push the envelope on handling a lot of users at once. I would agree, we a
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by joshowens 13y ago
You should really read up on autopublish and turn it off for your app. Don't make bold claims unless you try a little harder!
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by joshowens 13y ago
There are plenty of easy to install unit-test packages. Laika, Chai, etc.
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by joshowens 13y ago
It is built in Meteor, we just switch our whole site to use it. We switch from rails because we have much more Meteor knowledge on our team.
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by joshowens 13y ago
I'm cool with the heat. I am not perfect, don't pretend to be. I welcome the conversations and I am seeing interesting responses.
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by joshowens 13y ago
This isn't just fashion. We launch client apps in 6 weeks, time isn't negligible for us.

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