clemesha

That comment is in response to the parent comment's worry of "being trapped". By definition, Distributed Version Control solves the "being trapped problem" by being distributed.

Check out my app: http://thewikigame.com that is of a "similar" type. The "Hitler Wikipedia Game" is a "game type" that is a favorite of a lot of people. Another instance of that type is "N clicks to Hitler / N clicks to Jesus", etc.

Live example here: http://live.codenode.org, homepage: http://codenode.org, and the source code (BSD license) is here: http://github.com/codenode/codenode

Edit: An example of plotting is here: http://codenode.posterous.com/livecodenodeorg-is-back

That's pretty awesome. So similar to the general idea of the Wiki Game, yet different in practice.

Thanks for the great feedback!

I'm the guy making this game, thanks for playing!

Got any feedback? Thanks.

I'm aware, thanks. A little competition is a good thing I reckon.

Awesome!

People really love the game for a while, the word "addicting" comes up a lot. But, the long-term retention is pretty low, and understandably so, there are no variations or other features except the main game.

I'm working on making more features/game types/etc to make the game players have better retention, and make it overall more enjoyable for long-time players. Specifically, I'm working on the top voted requests here: http://wikipediagame.uservoice.com

The site that sold for $90,000 - please do tell which one.

Ideas monetizing this game I built: http://thewikigame.com? It has ~1500 players per day, w/ average time on site ~10mins.

I'm currently starting on a iPhone/Android app. I've thought about virtual goods and adds, but so far I have shied away from adds, and virtual goods I'm not sure about. There is also that upcoming Chrome app store which might be a possibility. Any other ideas?

Anyways, good luck spicyj, you're not alone in your quest.

During the California gold rush, it was those who sold tools and supplies to the miners that saw the most success.

That's a good vid, one that I've watched several times, but each time I'm left with the following dilemma.

Should my takeaway be: "Geez, we live in a computer based society, and everyone is so insanely clueless".

or should it be: "Cool, people are getting along just fine with their daily tools, not needing to know the 'details' of them".

Which one is it?

Yes 1, 2, 3! Avoid 4 :-)

Seems that mojombo practices what he preaches. First commit by mojombo (from march 29, 2010) of Github's Gollum wiki reads "readme driven development!"

http://github.com/github/gollum/commit/c7875704971be998a5399...

Cool, hopefully will make it.

(btw, did anyone else from San Diego attend the YC 'Work at a Startup'? I went: http://clemesha.org/blog/2010/jun/22/my-experience-at-ycombi... and would love to talk more about experiences, etc. It was a very cool event.)

Very cool stuff, hopefully.

To quote the beginning of the "What about my web app?" section

  This ten step tutorial shows how a client can interact with Hookbox. 
  Adding web app integration is also trivial.

I can tell you, combining a real-time component with your existing web app framework is not trivial; hopefully Hookbox might change this. In general, a framework that eases this pain is very needed.

I experimented with these ideas with my project "Hotdot" (http://github.com/clemesha/hotdot), which is mostly a "big example", not a framework or whatever.

Hotdot uses Orbited (which was originally authored by Michael Carter, and who is also the author of Hookbox). Michael did contact me with the Hookbox project a while back, and it looks as though he has made significant progress on the project since.

See if http://codenode.org (http://github.com/codenode/codenode ) interests you. It's BSD license, and a very cool project imho. Someone good at JavaScript / jQuery is needed.

No shame man, we're all in this together.

Why is it develop and have announced?

I have a (couple) side projects that I haven't "announced" on HN, was going to submit, but then I noticed the required "HN Announcement URL".

Maybe my problem is that I just haven't "announced it on HN" formally, and that's what this is all about? Is that the case? Thanks for clarification.

Google's "Parisian Love" ad is an extremely potent, real world example of using similar emotions to sell a product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU

What about the 2nd comment on the post, by "Sean O"?

Javascript/Ajax has been fundamental to "new-age" tech giants. See Google's Gmail.

Does dropbox.com take offense (legally or otherwise?) that this app has the exact string "dropbox" in it's name?

EDIT: I'm interested in the trademark implications mostly, are there any?

This type of generalization are what language wars are made of.

What about geolocation or using the phone's built-in camera, is/will this at all be possible from HTML5 apps?

Those features are a huge incentive to create mobile apps, imo.

My Dad does awesome work: http://davidclemesha.posterous.com

Plus it's Father's Day, so if you send him an invite he would be very happy. Email: dclemesha@gmail.com

A "little" slow on my android as well ;)

Is this actually true? Or is it more that we "hear" (listen and remember) about this type of "great" companies?

(This is definitely more of an honest question than some sort of inadvertently negative response.)

Loved the inside of the hoodie moment. Very interesting, and a bit creepy.

Good point. When a project is clearly going no where, it's worth it (but not easy) to fail it and move on.

I've personally have had this experience, and although failing a project hurts, it ultimately frees up time to move on to bigger and better things!

Damn, I really, really agree with this:

  I know that while it’s important to write quality software,
  it’s equally important to just fucking finish it.