node.js ko
Don Morrison
Contestant on We're Probably Wrong.
Votes (23)
Really, really neat. Would love to see this coupled with the Dex project (also done during this Knockout). the multiple endpoints and hosted code along with the web/dom scraping would be killer.
Evangenieur
contestantI have also a nice live coding website scraping and hacking project I have to deploy, which is called HackTheWeb ;)
elskwid
contestantHave you played around with ScraperWiki at all? These things need to know about each other. Keep me posted how things go. Nice work!
Would love to see the game being played. What about doing something like this for GitHub issues as well?
Animated GIF in a README. The humanity!!
I saw the Cloudsnap team playing this near the end of tje Knockout. Looked like lots of fun with a bunch people online.
Embedded streams could be quite fun. There's a place for this where you want to get the content out there and Twitter isn't practical or desired.
I'm the lucky one, I got to see this in person during the hackathon. Great job guys!
Anything that makes APIs easier to deal with is a good idea. What are the security concerns with having a proxy handling this communication?
Very, very nice! I hope you have plans to continue this work. Couple a service like Dex with ScraperWiki and you would have civic hackers everywhere drooling!
A few thoughts:
A display of the html source on the page, maybe toggle with the json results. Would really help with testing and finding the right combinations of selectors.
Saving endpoints for later use and editing.
Indicator that content is being refreshed from the source URL (just a little UI feedback)
Please put me on any sort of update list for this service. Great job.
Nice work guys. I wish I could have gotten on with other people to see the multiplayer aspects. I did get confused by the whitespace on either side of the board - kept trying to put blocks there. ha ha.
Super cool idea! I wasn't able to get it to work and would have really liked to get a touch of feedback when it is fetching the sounds (I thought it might be broken or stalled).
I don't live in a tweet heavy area so I didn't get a chance to see this work. Reminds me of some of the screens in early twitter clients for iOS.
Simplicity++
I like the idea a lot. The time side scrolling was a pleasant change from the normal drop-down list crap. It was unable to find my twitter followers so I couldn't actually send a tweet invitation but nice work otherwise.
cainvommars
contestantHey elskwid! Thanks for the vote!
Usually you just need to tab "Search for friends" right under the timechooser. Sometimes, if you have a huge number of followers or twitter is somehow broken, it needs a moment to load your followers. We decided to just write "loading your followers" in th input area and disabled it during loading.
Cheers Peter
Could be cool to have a little more collaborative task organization than I do now. I am a little confused as to where I put my tasks. The home page says to input tasks but I only see the ability to add the what I have done and what I will do to the weekly status.
I haven't had a need for this while freelancing but I can see the appeal. My concern would be that there is a lot of data entry for something that should be very quick. I like being able to save the items for reuse (eventually that would help with entry) and I like the category system. Ballpark view is nice too.
Would like to have seen someone updating while I was on the site. Fun stuff.
Looks great guys. A couple of browser tabs and I was able to see how it would be if people were playing. Great use of the map by the way!
The idea has merit. Being able to provide critical feedback to organizers and speakers is really needed.
I saw that there was a way to leave comments but no ratings. Is that missing?
Not being interested in exchange rates I can't quite figure out when I would use this. That said, it's an interesting comment. I like the idea that the chats line up with the time-series data. I am unclear as to how I see the historical messages in line. They all seemed to just list below the chart.
abendigo
contestantAye, if you dont trade currencies, either as an investment, or as a hedge, this app really has no use for you. To be honest, even for serious traders, I think it has little real use. But, it was fun to make.
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This model might be cool against inherently time-series data. Reminds me of comments on Soundcloud - being able to comment at a time in the song is fantastic.
I like this idea. I can see how the notetaking portion would really help with group learning. I wasn't able to try out the app - what happens when you're done with a session? Does it autosave the information then give you a URL? Are there user accounts where you can see all your notes?
Nice work.
This actually looks like a neat idea. The ability to chat with people you know on github without adding them to any of your other accounts is pretty cool. What about HubChat? Am I correct that it will be kind of like a campfire room?
caulagi
contestantThanks. I have not used hubchat or campfire, though I have seen them on github service hooks. I will take a look.
Sorry I couldn't be more thorough. I wasn't able to login to test it out. Getting an Express error about the Twitter token. I tried logging in and logging out without any luck.
Are you going to keep working on it after the voting?
iapain
contestantIt's some weird problem with twitter response but we are planning full fledged demo once nko is over with full source code available on github. We are keen on standardizing it into a library as well.
Sorry you weren't able to get this done. I know how rough the weekend can be now. Would have been nice to see how the application does more than I can already do with Stripe.
Cool idea. With the GitHub analogy it did make me wonder how you could then pull good recipes ideas back into yours after someone forks it. Is there a way to see who has forked your recipes? Or which of yours recipes were forked from someone else? Could be really fun. (Wonder if you could use Gists to get the Git love on this?)