node.js ko
Josh Nielsen
Contestant on SomethingCoded.
I'm a web developer living in Boulder, CO. Currently a building http://soundkeep.com.
Votes (31)
pretty neat idea. It would be really cool to have soundcloud integration so you didn't have to worry about uploading tracks.
fun idea. seems like with more time and polish you could make it more interesting.
looks nice and seems useful if you have data to track like that. I kinda wish the graphs were animate smoothly instead of hitching over when new data points come it. All in all it seems like you could maybe spin it into a business, though there are similar competitors in the market.
bluemoon
contestantYeah there are many competitors but its something that could be expanded to provide potentially more value than the others. The animation on the graph is a bit hard because you don't know when the next data point is going to come in, ideally it would be something adaptive so it would be continuously scrolling.
joshontheweb
contestantMaybe once the datapoint comes in you could ease animate it to the new location.
only used it solo but made a cool gif. Pretty fun. cool use of webRTC.
We literally almost built this for our submission. There is an a bar in my town with a multiplayer pacman arcade game, it's super fun. But yeah, it is challenging to corral people into one place at one time online. I wasn't actually able to play it. You might consider putting some gameplay into your video.
Cool idea. It was pretty hard to control though. I think I would have preferred to use my phone as a trackpad instead of tilting the accelerometer. It was just not responsive enough to be playable. kudos for tying all the tech together though.
Fun Idea. Cool use of webRTC in concept but In reality it was pretty difficult to use.
jeffreybiles
contestantYea, we knew going in getting the tracking algorithms right would be the trickiest part. Our AI guy (who's a rails guy IRL) did a hell of a job, and it works great... when on localhost. I'm afraid an overloaded server fracks up the responsiveness, and that was a bad choice of my part to not include client-side feedback.
Thanks for your response!
webaudio ftw! this seems a bit primitive but could be cool. Main gripe is that I can't hear the synth loop as I'm creating it but have to wait until I've drawn with it. It would be cool if I could sculpt a waveform with the drawing that governed the tone of the synth output. Why the flash popup? browser apis exist for that stuff now.
thattommyhall
contestantwe went back and forth, think we will revisit getusermedia and maybe do the direct web audio api rather than the wrapper. cheers for looking in
barisbalic
contestantHi Josh, so the APIs exist, but they are much further behind for recording than they are for playback. We started out trying to support all browsers, which is why we went with the flash fallback (for recording only). Thanks for taking the time to provide a comment alongside your rating.
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yeah, I feel you. I'm just kinda bitter about flash and excited about web audio + webRTC. web midi is looking pretty sweet as well. can't wait til its all mature and reliable.
actually a very cool idea. unfortunately it didn't work for me. kept getting this error: Cannot GET /auth/undefined
low score for design for using unmodified twitter bootstrap.
Gif streams ftw!
Love the design. I think the nature of the Werewolf game really lends itself to being in person since so much is based on body language and reading facial expressions but I think you could do it online if you had video stream of the players perhaps. I'd be interested to try and play through this but haven't had enough people to play. let me know when I can join and try and play with you guys. nice job!
thekevinjones
contestantThanks!
Yeah. It's much better in person, but like online poker, it can still be played. Once the competition is over we'll be adding matchmaking and a few more things that will help. Thanks for your vote!
looks really nice. kind of hard to control but cool project.
seems to be pretty incomplete... Hooray for box2d!
I'm not sure I totally understood the point. Big fan of Julian Assange though!
seems like it could be useful although it isn't a pain point I have personally. the design seems nice from what I saw which wasn't much since it errors out on facebook auth.
awesome design. addresses a real pain point for me. I hope this turns into a real business. I would likely use it.
Neat idea. In my experience these business model diagrams are great for getting initial ideas out and organizing your thoughts. They usually have a short lifespan of usefulness once the concepts are internalized. maybe an app like this will help them stay useful for longer. I found myself wishing I could just type directly in the boxes instead of pasting sticky notes that took up a lot of space.
julianduque
contestantThanks for the feedback!
We need to improve the UI. Stay tuned canvasmodel.co coming soon!
very simple but fun. I got a kick out of hearing you do the voices.
really cool application. I love the idea a sandbox programming game. Sadly it was crashing and hanging sometimes but a refresh fixed it. I'd be interested to see what else you could do with more time.
fun idea. couldn't get it to work though. would have been nice to have chat to fall back on as well. I kinda doubt i would use this during work, maybe for meetings or something but irc seems ideal otherwise.
had some good fun playing with this. the audio chat never worked for me but the text to speech was fun. always a bit painful to see a default twitter bootstrap design.
Pretty cool tool. almost seems like something you could offer as a service and allow CORS or jsonp for frontend apps to feed off of.
so, I definitely have this pain point but it is already so easy to deploy node projects to nodejitsu. It would be way more useful to me if you could deploy other types of projects. A common use case for me is trying to quickly host a static app that has a frontend js demo i want to check out and play with. pretty cool idea but not hugely useful in its current form. looks nice and clean.
niallo
contestantThanks for your vote. Yeah I was hoping to get DB provisioning and also configuration (via env variables and/or editing config files) done but ran out of time. Your idea for static file serving is good.
Plan to continue as open source project.
I can definitely see how this could be useful. low innovation score since it doesn't appear to really leverage node in a meaningful way and has been built many times before. Seems like you could easily build this with any web technologies.
oivoodoo
contestantHi. I know that I can definitely build using Rails for example. but I haven't developed for nodejs about 1.5 years :) and decided from the simple app just to get knowledge back) Thanks for vote!
I think this had a lot of potential but there were a lot of bugs. I couldn't leave a player behind because then I couldn't see where I was going. It was also randomly declaring winners. I really wanted to be able to chat and trash talk. I think with some work this could be a really fun game. Needs to be easier to control somehow. maybe try having the car follow the mouse cursor or something.
I thought the way you can change rooms was cool. theres a lot more you could do with this. I wanted to build something like this during the OWS protests where you could wander between protest locations and virtually attend the event and see tweets from that geo location. I liked the art style. I found it quite annoying that I couldn't hit enter to submit the chat.
very nicely designed and runs smoothly. Low innovation score since it is pretty much the same as Observer which won last year. It would be cool if you could jump into a webRTC video/audio chat between the user and administrator.
It didn't work for me since I don't user pivotal tracker but I think its an interesting concept. I used to do scrum/agile and could see this being fun.
I couldn't get anything to work but I watched the demo. Im not sure I like the idea of 'judging' your friends with other people but the photo drop design and effects were very nice. It would be nice to have some explanation along with the video. It was difficult to follow what was happening.
freehaha
contestantHi, thanks for voting. It's probably my inaccurate words that lead you to the idea of judging your friends. We want people to share their friends, and want others to find friends here. Originally, we want people to rate on the 'tags' you provide describing your friend so it is 'confirmed' and become a quality that really describing your friend and other people seeking friends can find friends they like. but it's a little bit too complicated that we couldn't implement it in 48 hrs. However, we'll probably continue working on that and hopefully get it running sometime. when it goes up please do drop by and share your friends =)
hmmm, sounds interesting but its broken after twitter auth: internal server error. I'm happy to re-score if you get it working.
Great design! In the end it was only a chatroom though...
fun take on an board game. I couldn't get in to the game since there weren't other players. seems like without chat or interaction with others, it could get a bit monotonous.