node.js ko
Nate Smith
Co-founder and CEO of Lever, creating the next generation of talent software. Also, co-author of Derby and a former Google Product Manger
Votes (25)
Impressive level of completeness. Was a bit confusing how to move at first, since I tried arrow keys until i tried WASD. Not super original, but very solid implementation
Seems like it would be super useful, though it is not totally intuitive at first. Reminds me a lot of Light Table, but love being able to just quickly hack away at an api to explore it in a browser
Interesting idea, but not clear how this should work when playing and not enough fun for the amount of effort
Cool to get a hardware hack working in a short bit of time, and I laughed a ton watching the video. Mostly I just really want to be friends. :-)
Really pretty and a cool game concept. A little bit buggy, but overall awesome work!
All around solid game. Works surprising well with a lot of people playing. One thing that would make it a lot better would be a high score that persists across dying
Been done before many times, but well executed. Would be nice to know whether you are in sync with the presenter as a viewer and to be able to choose to stay on a different slide
A little hard to figure it out at first and there are a good number of bugs, but it is still a lot of fun once you get it. Solid game, and I'd love to see it more complete.
Very cool looking, seems to mostly work, but it is hard to figure out that you are supposed to sync the timing. Also unclear how multi-player works
Like the basic game mechanic a lot. It is hard to figure out what happens when someone makes an invalid move, and it would be nicer if you could see what other boxes people filled in as it happens.
Unique, consistent, and attractive visual design. Solid level of completeness, though being able to tweet directly from the demo would have bene nice. Very fun, though concerned about actually using this in practice. :-)
Clean looking design, but not clear what it does or what the colors mean. Feel like this could be useful, but not really sure how it works. Wish that it pulled package.json from NPM based on a package name.
Good idea to have an IM interface to task management tools, though would prefer to have this connect to an existing tool like Asana and focus on making the chat UI really great. Good work getting a number of different UI pieces done in a short time!
tttp
contestantHI,
Yes, that's the idea, timekeeping by itself, isn't that useful, we want to connect to external broader CRM/invoicing, but thought that for a 48 hours thing it would be easier to judge as a standalone.
Cool idea for a push-to-talk style web app. Definitely could see the use case for this with remote team members or when working from home.
Good start on a number of basic components to an application. Hope you had a great time using Node!
Works pretty well, though I am not sure what the intended use is. Good demo of a few different components of an interactive game, but hard to judge at the moment. Nice start!
Solid work. Probably don't need to require authentication and were a few hiccups in trying to use the app, but overall you got an impressive amount done in a short amount of time!
iapain
contestantThanks! You're absolutely right about authentication, it was a silly idea. We put 5 hrs into it and still it doesn't work sometimes. We're going to re-release it after nko with some refactoring.
Good idea, though not very complete. Hope you had a great time using Node!
caulagi
contestantThank you. Yes, nko was a lot of fun!
Very cool demo, and impressive level of completeness. Would be good to have voting buttons on the popular video viewing page and would put views stats on the list page. Swirl effect on the recording page is a bit jarring. Overall, impressive work.
Cool idea. Pretty fun to explore and check out places that I typically don't think about. Somewhat difficult to watch for incoming updates, so not sure if this is the best view for realtime information. Overall, good prototype and seems to be working well!
Love how simple this is to use locally and remotely alike! Impressed by how much functionality is implemented already. Very much hoping you continue to work on this project as I could see using it on a regular basis.
Great illustrations and attractive visual design. Card flipping UI is hard to use, and it is somewhat confusing how the collaborative process works. I like the general concept of collaborative online cards, but it's not clear enough in trying the demo. It's a good start!
FaisalAbid
contestantThank you very much for your feedback and vote.
What did you find wrong with the collaborative process? How would you like it so it could be more clear for you?
We are working on the beta version of the site to launch next week and your feedback would be very valuable.
Thanks again!
- natepsjudge
Mostly it is not clear when you choose a card and fill in the message how else other people can get involved. On the home page you have a description that says other people can sign, but other than that it mostly looks like a normal e-card site. Would be great to have the list of people that you want to have sign the card on the page below the card all the time so that it is clear how this is different from other e-card sites up front. Currently you don't see that until the very end. I also wonder if people would like to have others help with the message or choosing the card.
Awesome work! I Love how easy it is to just create widgets and start sending data to them. The design is slick and intuitive. Would be nice to have URLs for secondary dashboards and somewhat confusing how user login works with an already customized dashboard.
fenguin
contestantThanks for the comments! You're absolutely right - we will add some indicators in the future that the demo page is just that, along with much more documentation. We have a lot of functional improvements planned for the future as well!
Implementing an entire game like this in a weekend is a huge effort, and it's great to see that you got a good chuck of it working! Next time might focus on something a bit more simple but more engaging.
Super awesome! If this just had a queue and the ability for multiple people to choose songs this would be amazing.