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Re:Weekend project - kicker.io by bcardarella on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:18PM (#3757650)
Very simple app, more of an excuse to play with a particular tech stack than anything (Heroku, Redis, MongoMapper, Sinatra and running multiple threads on Heroku)

There is a demo video on the site which does a good job of explaining the app. Please feel free to leave comments.

It's a complete code spike, so YMMV on the stability. If there is enough interest I'll put some time into making it better.

Re:Weekend project - kicker.io by cmaxwell on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:35PM (#3758019)
I wonder if there is anything malicious I can do with this... :-)
Re:Weekend project - kicker.io by cmaxwell on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:55PM (#3757818)
I still don't get it....why would I want to do this?
Re:Weekend project - kicker.io by bcardarella on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:58PM (#3757832)
It would be better if I had a usecase. It's basically a callback app. As long as you have a HTTP endpoint that responds to GET you can hit that endpoint at any time over Twitter.
Re:Weekend project - kicker.io by cmaxwell on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:00PM (#3757851)
Or I could just kick off the HTTP endpoint with a browser favorite (even on mobile)
Re:Weekend project - kicker.io by bcardarella on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:20PM (#3757941)
where is the fun in that? :D

This was basically a fun app to hack on for the weekend, throwing it out there.