andy_gayton

Re:Show HN: Simperium, a realtime data layer on Thursday May 10, 2012 @11:25AM (#3953992)

Important question saurik! Our primary store is mongo. All data is replicated in different availability zones and at least one additional replica which is kept in a different ec2 region. A running snapshot backup is also taken at least every 30 minutes. Simperium isn't a messaging service. Every change is persisted and versioned. So for the Simplesmash demo, you could have a slider that would allow you to go back in time and replay movements. A note on versions: they are stored in an RRD like fashion. At first every version is kept, and as they accumulate; older versions are compacted and become less granular. We plan on making what level of granularity is kept an adjustable option in the future.

Re:Lean Startup Machine Team Needs Feedback on Sunday May 22, 2011 @05:22AM (#2572948)

For sure EECS, all the ideas we are trying to validate are focus on growing plants. The way you didn't fill out the form was just right.

Lean Startup Machine Team Needs Feedback

Posted by andy_gayton on Saturday May 21, 2011 @09:37PM
from the self-post dept.

We're in the middle of the Lean Startup Machine this weekend here in SF.http://sf.theleanstartupmachine.com/We're scrambling to try and get validation around a couple of ideas. If you could complete this survey, it'd help us a bunch!http://goo.gl/s2AdG

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Re:Ask HN: Am I insane for competing in this space? on Friday May 06, 2011 @04:18PM (#2522319)

There are a lot of people in this space. By specializing your sign up is slightly more streamlined than groupme .. but only slightly -- http://groupme.com/ -- how do you see yourself comparing with them?

Clickable link: http://textmyfamily.com/

Show HN: Instant hosting solution for designers

Posted by andy_gayton on Friday May 06, 2011 @01:19PM
from the show-hn dept.

StatiCloud is an instant hosting solution for simple static websites. We've just added password protection for websites, so designers can privately host prototypes to show clients.http://staticloud.com/help/how-to-password-protect-your-website/

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HOWTO: host open source web templates instantly and for free

Posted by andy_gayton on Monday April 25, 2011 @05:20PM
from the staticloud.com dept.

http://staticloud.com/blog/how-to-host-open-source-templates-instantly-and-for-free/

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Super simple hosting solution, StatiCloud just released custom domain support

Posted by andy_gayton on Friday April 22, 2011 @02:50PM
from the staticloud.com dept.

http://staticloud.com/

One of the first of the new breed of super simple hosting solutions for static web sites, StatiCloud released custom domain support this morning. Like everything else at StatiCloud, setting your custom domain is pretty much instant (except you still need to jump with CNAME hoops with your domains DNS settings with your registrar, erg).

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Re:Free hosting for static websites on Friday April 08, 2011 @02:17PM (#2425011)

Nice, coralrift is slick. It does look super similar to http://staticloud.com

I wonder how much inspiration they have taken from there. It looks like they have uploaded their demo site to: http://dane2.staticloud.com/

Who would be the target market for this sort of service. It is potentially quite niche. Is it targeted towards users technical enough to be able to write html, css, and javascript. But not technical enough to use say Amazon's new static web site options on S3 http://bit.ly/h1rcJ8 or github's static hosting option?