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by sgrove 14y ago
I didn't design Kandan, but I do think it's beautiful. And as I said, that's because of Sacha Greif's amazing work. Design in open source is - in general - sorely lacking. We want to correct that, and help herald in a new era of apps that a
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by sgrove 14y ago
Use promo-code hn-preview on http://cloudfuji.com/promo for a 50% discount on the team package - 3 apps and 6 teammates. But make sure to give us your awesome feedback :)
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by sgrove 14y ago
Not everything needs to be beautiful, but we wanted to Kandan to be. We had a prototype of Kandan we called Kogo initially, but it was pretty ugly. We went out of our way to make sure that Kandan was as pleasant to use as possible, visually
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by sgrove 14y ago
Talk about a nice user experience! :) In all seriousness, fixed. Thanks!
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by sgrove 14y ago
I personally would love to see it be a self-contained irc/xmpp/jabber/faye server, but all in good time. We want to make open-source beautiful, easy to access, and easily extensible. So we're releasing what we have now, with plenty of momen
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by sgrove 14y ago
Credit card info is only required for the second app launch, or when you invite more than two people. We have to do that to manage our resources, but we definitely didn't want it to be the first thing you see. If you send me your account em
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by sgrove 14y ago
The beautiful part of Kandan is courtesy of the design by Sacha Greif. He wrote an ebook about how he went about designing it, and it was discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3731135 The amazing implementation is from a lot
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Bushi.do is now Cloudfuji.com, launches Kandan - beautiful open source chat(cloudfuji.com)
129 points by sgrove 14y ago|60 comments
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by sgrove 14y ago
It goes without saying that if you've ever met these two, you know they're in a league of their own. They have the same kind of unstoppable, world-be-damned nature that I've seen in the Justin.tv and Airbnb teams, which is inspiring and hum
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by sgrove 14y ago
Congrats to Michael and co. The success that Socialcam is enjoying makes me laugh - given the amazing hard-work the justin.tv team put in for years hustling, building, learning to deal with crazy unbelievable challenges, it just feels ri
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by sgrove 15y ago
First, this is a bullshit article behind a paywall. Second, it leads with: "We're talking to every car company to see what their level of excitement is," said Anthony Levandowski, head of ... So it certainly seems that Detroit has not b
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by sgrove 15y ago
David Lee (and all of the SV Angel team, in fact) is really an amazingly interesting figure. The integrity, responsiveness, and genuine interest was completely mind-blowing, and I don't know that I've experienced anything like it elsewhere
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by sgrove 15y ago
Sounds awesome. I've been complaining about the lack of AST-awareness in VCS for a few years now, though I haven't done anything about it. Please be sure to keep everyone up to date, even if it's only with the problems you discover about th
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by sgrove 15y ago
Haha, I appreciate the sentiment. And yeah, Amazon's marketplace is pretty exciting for us as well - their approach is obviously quite different, but it's very cool to see movement like this higher up on the stack.
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by sgrove 15y ago
One thing I'll say about Locomotive, besides it being just an awesome take on CMS and being incredibly powerful under the hood, is that the quality of code just completely blew me away. Didier, and later other members of the team like Mar
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by sgrove 15y ago
I actually agree with the OP in general. I have a mistrust of MongoDB overall, and avoid using it in big, data-intensive situations... BUT, in LocomotiveCMS and a few others, it make brilliant sense. Like you mentioned, it's very lightweigh
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LocomotiveCMS Approaches 2.0 Release(locomotivecms.com)
21 points by sgrove 15y ago|19 comments
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by sgrove 15y ago
I'm actually working on a websockets implementation in emacs to be able to connect to a sharejs server, so multiple parties can edit the same document regardless of where it's hosted or with what editor - but I ran into a snag with some of
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by sgrove 15y ago
http://kandan.me is a backbone app, as well as a few others we've developed at Bushido so far.
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by sgrove 15y ago
It looks like vmware is really starting to figure out 'the open source way'. There were a lot of problems at the beginning - disparity between cloudfoundry.com vs .org distributions, inability to pull community features, lack of .org docume
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CloudFoundry.org launches - Fully Open Source PaaS(blog.cloudfoundry.org)
5 points by sgrove 15y ago|1 comments
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by sgrove 15y ago
This made me chuckle. Dropbox was one of the least creative or original startups I know. But it was born out an immediate unfulfilled need and a subsequent deep fury, and then executed and refined insanely. Before and since Dropbox there ha
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by sgrove 15y ago
Talk about tenacity! And there's such a huge amount of disruption to be had anywhere in the insurance industries - looking forward to them earning the 'hipmunk for insurance' title.
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by sgrove 15y ago
I felt your comment about civility in discourse to be spot on. What would some of the denser communities of highly-educated people look like if this were hammered on for the first two years of university? I'm certain hn would benefit from i
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by sgrove 15y ago
I actually couldn't tell if you were being satirical or not for a bit into your rant. Up until #4 (and then #6, and a few others), everything seemed to me like shining examples of the midwestern attitudes. Surly, 'hardened', bitter, negativ
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by sgrove 15y ago
(cross-posted from a dup of this story...) Although the move to the cedar stack introduced a lot of complexity, Heroku's flexibility is really starting to shine through - I've seen work on a smalltalk buildpack as well. Long-term this trend
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by sgrove 15y ago
> don't be a cynic, be a builder. Beautifully put.
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by sgrove 15y ago
Although the move to the cedar stack introduced a lot of complexity, Heroku's flexibility is really starting to shine through - I've seen work on a smalltalk buildpack as well. Long-term this trend is only going to accelerate, where we can
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Common Lisp on Heroku(github.com)
4 points by sgrove 15y ago|1 comments
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by sgrove 15y ago
Any chance we'll see a retrospection? You've been building Loopt for 7 years - I'd love to hear how you managed team morale, the high points, the lows, etc. There's bound to be some amazing stuff. And congratulations, I'm personally excited

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