Re:Ask HN: What are you hacking these days?
by mustardamus on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:51PM
(#4248793)
Just started to hack on a bookmark (so 90s!) app (tell me more!) I had in mind for quite a while now. While bookmarking a page, it also caches it client side, so even if you're offline, you can view the bookmarked page as you were online.
The first evening was about getting the data from a x-origin page to the localStorage for the app's domain and serve it with HTML5 appcache. Got that. Now it's basically about encoding/decoding and putting back together the original page.
Re:Ask HN: What are you hacking these days?
by mustardamus on Saturday July 21, 2012 @05:37PM
(#4275801)
Good question. I haven't done any research because I am curious about the technology and not to interrupt the market.
But one thing I already noticed is that you don't need to register with my app since everything is done client-side (no plans about server persistence yet).
And, well, the caching of bookmarked sites. That also happens completely without a backend server.
Re:Ask HN: What are you hacking these days?
by ovi256 on Sunday July 15, 2012 @06:31PM
(#4248389)
Building an MVP for an SASS webapp, just me, bouncing ideas of my brother and friends. Basically team-shared and filtered Google Alerts. Learning and applying the principles of lean startup, so here's the launch page: http://signup.alertoid.com
Would love feedback on the concept, name, everything!
PS: Got the idea right here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3475193
PPS: How do I SEO webapp to bring in some visitors ? Baby's first SEO, basically. Reading Kalzumeus religiously, thanks for everything patio11.
Re:Ask HN: What are you hacking these days?
by daveid on Sunday July 15, 2012 @05:25PM
(#4248201)
Just today decided that I'm done with this thing for the time being. Took a whole while. Built with Laravel PHP. It's a marketplace for art commissions (not finished art pieces, but artist services rather): https://artistsnclients.com/
The first evening was about getting the data from a x-origin page to the localStorage for the app's domain and serve it with HTML5 appcache. Got that. Now it's basically about encoding/decoding and putting back together the original page.
When this idea came to me, I build a self caching website to research it: https://github.com/mustardamus/self-caching-offline-website Tutorial: http://usejquery.com/posts/create-a-self-caching-website-rea...
What do you think?
Delicious is not that great anymore and others try to gain the ground. What will be your value proposition? Because there is a competition:
http://historio.us
http://linksandi.com
http://readability.com
http://getpocket.com
...
But one thing I already noticed is that you don't need to register with my app since everything is done client-side (no plans about server persistence yet).
And, well, the caching of bookmarked sites. That also happens completely without a backend server.
Would love feedback on the concept, name, everything!
PS: Got the idea right here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3475193 PPS: How do I SEO webapp to bring in some visitors ? Baby's first SEO, basically. Reading Kalzumeus religiously, thanks for everything patio11.