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by olegp 13y ago
We tried this with the web app launcher at https://starthq.com . Visitors could create their app launcher before signing up. It did not work as expected as users were confused and few completed the process. Right now we ask for t
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by olegp 13y ago
If you want to get some of the benefits mentioned in the article with Node, check out my Common Node projects which uses fibers to emulate threads and a synchronous environment: https://github.com/olegp/common-node Her
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by olegp 13y ago
If you're catching exceptions all over the place, or worse using them for flow control as part of normal operations, you're doing it wrong. Exceptions should indicate a major error that you can't easily recover from and as su
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by olegp 13y ago
Where are you now? It might be easier if you were to visit Finland first on a tourist visa and apply from here. There's also been talk of having the Startup Life program ( http://startuplife.fi/ ) take interns from abroa
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by olegp 13y ago
Finland is also an option and the market for good developers is hot right now. Drop me a line via Twitter - my username is in my profile - and I can do some intros if you decide to come here. Edit: more info: http://www.migri.fi&
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by olegp 13y ago
One of the comments in the original article said that developers use MongoDB because they're too lazy to use RDBMS. I don't see anything wrong with that - laziness is a virtue among developers! Seriously though, we are using Mongo
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by olegp 13y ago
@rmlewisuk Are you OK with us including this data and a link back to your site in our web app directory at https://starthq.com ? Edit: Also, you should try to collaborate with the TOSDR guys, they have a pretty active IRC channel
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by olegp 13y ago
If all you want to do is make existing async methods synchronous, it's easier to modify the function prototoype like this: https://github.com/olegp/mongo-sync/blob/master/lib/mongo-sy... or jus
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by olegp 13y ago
Here's mine, a new tab page replacement: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/starthq/ilcpdgfepi...
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by olegp 13y ago
Agreed, that's why we're using fibers and common-node ( https://github.com/olegp/common-node ) at https://starthq.com
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by olegp 13y ago
We launched https://starthq.com , not sure if it qualifies as large though as its currently at 2KLOC of JS for the front end code.
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by olegp 13y ago
What are the sites where one can find SaaS coupon codes and offers? AppSumo, F6S, TNW Market - any others? We would like to aggregate them at https://starthq.com
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by olegp 13y ago
You can use fibers. We are doing that via common-node ( https://github.com/olegp/common-node/ ) and are very happy with the choice at https://starthq.com
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by olegp 13y ago
Callbacks and CLI apps aren't a good fit in my opinion. I do like writing command line tools using Common Node though: https://github.com/olegp/common-node
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by olegp 13y ago
Can you name these companies? I would like to add them to the StartHQ SaaS directory, if they're not there already: https://starthq.com/apps/?category=creative
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by olegp 13y ago
We've been using almost the same stack at StartHQ ( https://starthq.com ) with great success. Mongo and Angular make it easy for us to iterate quickly. Performance hasn't been an issue with up to 300 concurrent visitors
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by olegp 13y ago
At https://starthq.com we use Angular. Here's a talk I gave that's both an introduction to Angular and a summary of our experiences: http://video.yandex.by/users/fdconf/view/4/ (sli
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by olegp 13y ago
Have you looked at https://github.com/olegp/common-node ?
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by olegp 13y ago
Not at all. Let me know via the feedback form (available via the dropdown in the upper right when you sign up) what format you need the data in and I'd be happy to provide it as JSON. Also, if there's some data missing that you wa
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by olegp 13y ago
Having put the list together myself, I'm certain that 99%+ are B2B. It's true though that there aren't that many "enterprise" players, although Marketo is there.
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by olegp 13y ago
Here's a list of SaaS companies sorted by popularity: https://starthq.com/apps/ Popularity is calculated using a combination of the number of likes of the profile page and Alexa reach, so the first few pages aren&
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by olegp 13y ago
Here's a talk I gave on the topic: http://vimeo.com/32507674 and here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/olegp/js-everywhere-2011 Feel free to message me on Twitter (@olegpodsechin) and I&#
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by olegp 13y ago
In my experience there's very few libraries that would require generators that could run on both the server and in browsers.
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by olegp 13y ago
Alternatively you could use fibers. We've been using them together with Common Node ( https://github.com/olegp/common-node ) at https://starthq.com with great success - running smoothly on an EC2 micro i
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by olegp 13y ago
At StartHQ ( https://starthq.com ) we've added the country and hosting company, as well as a list of alternatives, to every SaaS provider in our directory. So, while we're still hosted on Amazon in the US ourselves, we a
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by olegp 13y ago
https://starthq.com - a web app directory and browser new tab replacement
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by olegp 13y ago
The automatic alternative detection kind of failed there. I'll update the list manually. In the meantime, you can find all the Reader alternatives just by searching: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=reader
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by olegp 13y ago
I agree that it seems a little premature, but it's a good thought experiment: could you move off Google if you wanted to? At StartHQ we provide a list of automatically generated alternatives, in case anyone wants to give it a go: http
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by olegp 13y ago
Here is another one that I'm working on: web apps for building sites https://starthq.com/apps/?q=Web%20development
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by olegp 13y ago
We've also had a lot of traffic to https://starthq.com/apps/?q=reader as people look for Reader alternatives. Google should do this more often.

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