node.js ko
Arnout Kazemier
Extraordinary JavaScript Hybrid, founder of Observe.it and Lead Software Engineer at Nodejitsu. Loves real-time, Node.js, NoSQL & other bad-ass technologies.
- Second place solo NKO 2010
- First place solo, overall, utility NKO 2011
Votes (11)
Innovation:
Finally, a hardware based entry. Node Knockout needs more like these. Sweaters, xmas, node, awesome.
Completeness:
I'm missing a store that ships those awesome xmas sweaters ;)
Utility/Fun:
It's only fun if you actually have the sweater, sending messages is fun, but it doesn't keep you attracted to the project.
Design:
I loved the design and the overall execution of this. I don't really see why on earth you would need to include bootstrap for this.. Plain html and really basic css would have been just as good.
Utility/fun:
I can see how this can be useful for a distributed team and just scream random things at each other when actually have something useful to say.
Design:
I like the design, it's simple and and not in the way. I would have given 5 stars if you took some time to customise the bootstrap.
Innovation:
Def. the first time that something like this was done in NKO. I love the whole idea behind it.
Completeness:
Seems pretty complete to me. Some small browser issues here and there. But that's about it
Innovation:
5 stars, never seen anything like this during a hackatron.
Design:
To bad that you are using poopstrap as base framework for the site, it has been so whored that I cannot give you any design points for that. Having that said, you did took the time to at least implement it a good an appealing way. So no big fat 5 points for design, but 3 ;)
Utility/fun:
It can definitely be useful for some people, but it would be to annoying to setup on a day to day use. But great demonstration of different technologies
calvinfo
contestantThanks!
Yeah, CSS is still something I'm really bad at. I thought about going with one of the themes from wrapbootstrap, but ran out of time. It's definitely one of my weak points :.
Observe.it looks really sweet - I'm sad I missed last year's prototype of it. Excited to see your full version!
Utility/Fun:
Had some fun creating an ASCII Nyan cat: http://comorichweb.nko3.jit.su/view/w5EVBZnC but that's it. There isn't any thing that makes me come back to the site.
Completeness:
It works, but it doesn't automatically fetch the frames from an animated gif for example, which is quite silly ;9
Design:
The design is really simple, I would have expected more from 3 people strong team. But it's not horrible, and it's not looking so bootstrappy.
Innovation:
Generating ASCII's is not thing new, same as displaying them on a website. So I can't really vote high for that..
aaronm67
contestantThank you for your feedback -- though to be fair, it's not really "Quite Silly" we didn't parse out the frames from animated gifs, that's a pretty huge feature, and it was a decision we made to not include it.
Utility/fun:
As pointed out by Tzeskimo, client side errors are still a really big issue in browsers and nobody managed to solve it yet. This is a great step in to the correct direction.
Design:
I really loved the login form, so good job on that. But I'm gonna substract one star because of the overuse of the whored bootstrap theme. Instead of using the stock bootstrap theme you could easily create your own or downloaded a new theme for it..
Innovation:
Logging errors on the client side is nothing new, I still remember having a some old code that spammed everything to a PHP file and send it to my e-mail.
Completeness:
It has some features, but I would love to see a more indepth debug-ability. What you could have done is fetch the javascript file and display the line where it actually happend and provided a way to step through it based on the stack trace for example.
But if you consider that this is a solo entry, I think you did a great job on it.
Swaagie
contestantThanks mate, awesome and extensive feedback. You just gave me an awesome idea, no stacktrace, but backtrace ;) Like you said fetch the file, backtrace possible callers all the way to the root, display them in a tree graph (or something similar) and let the developer decide themselves which is the most likely branch that created the error.
Innovation:
Doing rock paper scissors isn't innovate. And sprinkling it with some real-time doesn't make it more innovative.
Design:
The design is alright, you took the time to implement something custom so you score some extra points here. But it's really simple.
Utility/Fun:
It is fun, but it misses an addiction factor. It's fun to play it once or twice but that's it. So it get boring really fast, even if you battle against multiple players.
Completeness:
It's complete-ish but it would be nice if had a rock paper scissors score board for example to see how many times someone has won or lost etc. But if you look at the scope of the overall idea, it's pretty complete.
Utility/Fun:
Had a lot of fun testing out this application. Viewing the gifs doesn't work that good in chrome, but at least you guys put up some information about it on the site. So after swapping to FireFox the chat was fun. But it's odd that recording in Chrome does actually work.. with working animated GIF's.
Design:
Yay an entry without a bootstrap theme. The design looks solid and works for your concept. Providing the main information above the fold as expected and those who need more information about the concept can scroll down for more information.. It would be nice if it just featured one live gif on the front page.
Innovation:
Using animated gifs is nothing new, the interest was probably spiked by
gifsocketsbut it's a great idea to use animated gifs instead of flash or the latest HTML5.Completeness:
Feels complete, couple of things missing and some bugs when broadcasting (like not being able to see the chat's)
masylum
contestantThanks for the long review! I have to admit that we were inspired by
gifsockets. The challenge was to create the individual frames clientside. We had to implement a gif encoder wich I'm going to open source soon.
Utility/Fun:
I just took it for a test run and tried to send you a kazillion dollars!!! And it worked like a charm. So good job on that, worked as advertised!
Design:
I love the design, it's simple but still stylish. I gave you 5 stars for it because it's not a default bootstrap theme.
Innovation:
There are already a couple of projects that use tweets to pay with cash, but this makes it dead simple. So still 4 stars from me.
Completeness: Worked as advertised, I can understand the reason why you use a demo server for this because nobody want to "test" an application and lose cash in the process ;).
Overall:
Great solo entry, one my favorites so far.
Innovation:
As a frequent traveler, I already have an wide array of applications that give me updates about my flight status. For example Tripit. But also Google is displaying this information.
Utility/fun:
So I tried to search for a trip, KL0605 which is a trip from Amsterdam to San Francisco and it was unable to figure this out.. Google however did find it: http://cl.ly/image/0S453H0a2o3x same as KLM status page: http://cl.ly/image/1h2z2S1e0B1w
So It might work for AA1811 but definitely not for all (international) flight numbers.
Design:
The design is quite minimal as well, it doesn't really provide you with much information of what is actually expected from you as user, which data format it needs. Also with such a minimal design I expected it targets small screen devices, but unfortunately this is not true. So it's basically just a form with a bootstrap theme.. No actual design..
Completeness:
If it's only job is to show flight data, then it's complete.. But you could have taken this concept much further than just a form that submits an id and shows data.
Quite funny this is presented to me as the first entry to judge as I build a simular application last year that won :p.
Utility: I can see that something like this is useful for users.
Design: Everything above the fold looks really nice, but once you start scrolling down on the main page it get's really nasty. I understand that you guys used this to display the capabilities of your entry, but it could have gotten more love. But I like the color scheme and the admin area seems mostly done.
Innovation: It's not innovative if something like this has already been build in NKO, so I can't give you much points for that.
Completeness: It works on site, but it would great if it actually could work on your own site. It's a full admin party, so i'm guessing that stuff like user account's isn't implemented either etc. So it's a nice demo of what is possible with the current technology, but nothing more than that.
Utility/Fun / Innovation:
OMG A CHAT APP.. Let's innovate and add a speech type.. I'm sorry but I can't really give any utility and innovation points for this..
Design:
Finally a team that understands the importance of a great custom design. 5 stars.
Completeness:
It's a working chat app.