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by shutton 12y ago
A comment about the appspot.com domain. I did look at getting a dedicated TLD (i.e. icsconverter.com) for this but with Stripe (quite rightly) requiring SSL when I did the sums for getting a custom domain on SSL with Google App Engine it wa
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by shutton 12y ago
This is a quick commute time project I did because I had some data in Google Calendar and wanted to get at it but I could only export it as iCalendar (.ics). I used Stripe for payments and found it gloriously simple compared to previously d
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Show HN: ICS (iCalendar) file converter(icsconvert.appspot.com)
1 points by shutton 12y ago|2 comments
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Sleep sensor breaks through $1m on Kickstarter(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by shutton 12y ago|0 comments
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by shutton 12y ago
This is a commuter time project I've been working on. It uses nodejs (on Azure) and backbone on the frontend. I've really tried to make the UI work well across screen sizes. Let me know what you think!
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Show HN: Convenely - A simple way to schedule meeting up with friends(convenely.com)
1 points by shutton 12y ago|1 comments
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by shutton 12y ago
This is a commuter time project I've been working on. It uses nodejs (on Azure) and backbone on the frontend. I've really tried to make the UI work well across screen sizes. Let me know what you think!
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by shutton 12y ago
Sometimes people take TDD to mean Test Driven Design
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by shutton 12y ago
It has it merits and there's some pieces of code I would not want to write without it but those cases (at least of a front-end dev) are remarkably few.
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by shutton 12y ago
Some interesting conversations between DHH, Kent Beck and Martin Fowler. DHH can be quite outspoken at times but I think he's right to have this discussion and to have it in public so we can all learn something.
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Is TDD dead?(martinfowler.com)
84 points by shutton 12y ago|93 comments
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by shutton 12y ago
Looking at the winners there doesn't seem to be anything massively inspiring and only one dedicated OSX app. I'm not sure how much of a big deal these awards are.
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Apple Design Awards 2014(developer.apple.com)
76 points by shutton 12y ago|41 comments
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by shutton 12y ago
Looks really good, very nice design.
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by shutton 12y ago
Basically the same problem as my other site Meetifyr - a group of people figuring out which day to do something on. Everyone votes on which days work best from them. The difference for Convenely is the calendar view and every event has it&
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by shutton 12y ago
http://www.meetifyr.com/ - been around for 6 years, haven't touched the code in years, gets around 3k page views and 100 active events a month. http://www.bookmarks.io/ - working but mothballed. http:
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House of Lords debates the web's 25th birthday(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by shutton 13y ago|0 comments
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by shutton 14y ago
Fair point. Which free bookmarking services do you know that provide full content search?
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by shutton 14y ago
Thanks for the comment, good to know you can see the potential. You can use the voucher code HNTRIAL for a two month free trial, please let us know what you think. About the price. We've kept it high while we wait for Google App Engine to
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by shutton 14y ago
Yeah, we just search the pages you've bookmarked. If you Google search for 'fish recipe' you'll get millions of results, if you do the same search on your bookmarks you'll get just the fish recipes you've previously bookmarked. It's no go
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by shutton 14y ago
We've using Google App Engine and their Text Search feature ( https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/o... ). It's still experimental and slightly buggy but very easy to use and obviously scales well. They haven't announ
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by shutton 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. I know what you mean about the call to action being camouflaged, I think we're trying to be too clever, we should make it more obvious. I don't think we're doing a good job of showing how the servi
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by shutton 14y ago
Looks good. What's your plans with the site, are you going to start charging?
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by shutton 14y ago
Our mobile version is based on cheeaun's http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/ project but we're still working on it. We tried jQuery mobile but found it too slow, that was 6 months ago, maybe its improved.
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by shutton 14y ago
No problem, just let us know what you think.
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by shutton 14y ago
Yeah we do store a copy of the site (just HTML not other assets) but we don't really offer archiving of the site at the moment. Currently any page gets re-indexed when someone edits the meta data (title, description etc) that we store with
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by shutton 14y ago
There's no free trial from the site but I've just created the voucher code HNTRIAL which should give the first 50 Hacker News readers a two month free trial. Enjoy!
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by shutton 14y ago
This is my commuting project, looking for some feedback to see if my 'me too' project has any chance of standing out. Thanks. Edit: Use the voucher code HNTRIAL for a two month trial.
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Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)(bookmarks.io)
25 points by shutton 14y ago|31 comments
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by shutton 14y ago
Looks really nice, like the idea of visually laying out the survey, I guess this is what people do with pen and paper anyway. Some way of customizing the style of the survey would be useful for embedding on your own site.

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