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We think it's a hugely underserved market. I've written a little about where we think Gomix fits relative to other similar products: https://medium.com/gomix/gomix-and-the-evolution-of-paas-362...

Many of the example apps have a step-by-step guide embedded in the project (see the Setup.md file) e.g. Alexa: https://gomix.com/#!/project/alexa-skill Parse: https://gomix.com/#!/project/parse-server Slack: https://gomix.com/#!/project/slack-bot

But we'll be sure to work on some video examples - I appreciate people learn in different ways. For a quick overview of Gomix, see https://gomix.com/about/

It does - here's an example using Jade (Pug), Stylus and Coffeescript: https://gomix.com/#!/project/hello-coffee

For a fuller example, the Gomix site is also built using those technologies, and you can view their code too: https://gomix.com/#!/project/community

ah cool - if you're new to Node.js, then be sure to check out our free interactive course: https://gomix.com/#!/project/node-beginner

We'll be adding some type of super simple 'branching' type functionality allowing people to develop without breaking production.

Here you go: https://gomix.com/about/

You could write it off as 'just' a web-based Node JS IDE. That is a large part of what it technically delivers. But here's a few points that we think makes it more useful and accessible to a much larger group of users than would ever typically use such a thing: https://gomix.com/about/

Here's a brief text overview: https://gomix.com/about/

We looked but nothing like that came up. From what we can gather it sounds like the term, but isn't exact.

cool, pleased to hear it! The “tell me your hopes and dreams” bit came from an early user test we did. We literally just took the app they made and turned it into the welcome project.

thanks! We really appreciate this

The new name's intended to be a little friendlier for people who might not necessarily see themselves as "devs" but still want to make stuff.

I'm going to point you in the direction of this https://blog.fogcreek.com/hyperdev-tech-stack/ just in case you came across it yourself. As I wanted to make clear that it's now out of date. While a lot of the front-end bits are still true, we've re-done the backend from scratch, so it definitely needs an update.

Down for me - it still works in their iPhone app though.

Thanks torkalork! Node.js is definitely just a starting point for us - we plan to support all major backends.

Oh nice, pleased to hear it!

We've ported the Javascripting workshopper to HyperDev too for those interested: https://hyperdev.com/blog/learn-javascript-nodeschools-javas...

(useful for those working on locked-down School PCs etc.)

For the speedy first 1,000 we also have free copies of The Node Beginner Book in PDF/ePub/Mobi to giveaway: https://hyperdev.com/help/free-copy-node-beginner-book/

Direct download links:

* Full-color PDF - https://blog.fogcreek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/MakeBet...

* iPad (ePub) - https://blog.fogcreek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/make-be...

* Kindle (mobi) - https://blog.fogcreek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/make-be...

As long as HyperDev keeps going, but it doesn't lock you in - You can get a zip of your code, or export it to directly to GitHub, and it’ll work without any changes on other services.

It shouldn't be more than a couple of seconds between you making the change and it being updated in your live app. And projects remain up permanently if you log in (projects by anonymous users are removed after 5 days).

That's right remixing gives you your own copy of the project that you can then edit.

I think you’re underestimating the addressable market. StackOverflow has 45M unique users [1], and yet Evans Data [2] and others put the number of developers at around 20M. So there are tens of millions of people looking for help with programming issues who aren’t professionals. I think a lot of them, and professional developers with side-projects and quick scripts to write, will find utility here. The typical Git workflow best-practice is something of a one-size-fits-all at the moment, and we think it’s not a great fit in some circumstances. So this is just another option.

On persistence - each HyperDev project gets a DynamoDB. It’s definitely trickier to use than we’d like, so we’ll be getting to that, but for now here’s an example project you can remix that uses it - https://hyperdev.com/#!/project/typhoon-pine. Or there are other options like one that uses a free mlab MongoDB - https://hyperdev.com/#!/project/navy-flower that’s pretty easy to get going with.

But I think you should just try building something with it - here’s a good excuse: https://hyperdev.com/blog/developer-contest-get-back-nature/. From what I remember from Aavardk’d [3] you’re a keen photographer so it should be your thing!

1 - https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com 2 - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483690/it-careers/indi... 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg

Sorry about that - a lot of the same detail on that page is included in the blog post at https://hyperdev.com/blog/hyperdev-open-beta/

To be fair, he does. Fog Creek has been going for over 15 years. Trello started with a similar model - only free use at the start as they figured out the best way to monetize, and now they are making $10M+ a year [1]

1 - http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/05/23/trello-get...

HyperDev is a little different - it has the editor and isn't, or at least won't be, Node.js specific - there will be support for several programming languages.

c9 is a way to put a more traditional development environment in the cloud. HyperDev is a developer playground, like JS Fiddle, but for quickly creating full stack web apps.

Hah - yeah, I don't know what's up with that. They edited away from my original title as part of publishing.

Anyone else have any experience of Developer Happiness teams? This was my first time hearing about one and I wonder how well it works in practice and how other non-dev teams react to it.

348 according to http://www.quora.com/Airbnb-in-2015/How-many-front-end-engin..., assuming all 'nerds' are engineers, which usually isn't true of course, but http://nerds.airbnb.com makes me think maybe they are.