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Anyone else notice the company name - CYNK. Cynic?

This may go against the popular opinion around these traps, but does anyone else feel like the premise of success arising from the pursuit of "not X" a little flawed in that for every AirBnb story that makes frontpage, a hundred other "not X" ventures never see the light of day?

Was this submission flagged down? If so, why? Because it kinda disappeared off the front page for me.

I guess side-projects may not always have a coding element to it, or maybe someone wants to showcase the end-product without necessarily showing the source code.

Hi. MakeDock is a project that I've recently started working on. It lets you quickly create a profile page for a side-project your working on and share it with other side-project enthusiasts.

What do guys think?

Anyone keen to discuss this issue further? Join the live chat at http://twich.me/twitter360k

I've created a forum for the twich project

http://forum.twich.me/

No proxy. Just apache running on 80 and node running on 443

I wasn't very good at node, and I wanted to get it up and running quickly. So I used node for the message passing and php for serving up the client files and routing the rooms.

I'd put it to technical incompetence more than anything else.

This is the source code for the app I've been working on. It was featured in HN awhile back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1590173

This is the first time I'm open sourcing my code. Please be nice. Any feedback is welcome.

And a twich for the occasion http://twich.me/opensource

Color scheme is homage to original nodechat demo which uses the same. http://chat.nodejs.org/

Definitely needs flood control. Thanks for the ref. I'll read up on it.

Re: spam Well I was half expecting it. I suppose now we sorta know how it holds up to heavyish traffic, even if it's spam...

Thing is twich rooms don't hold any history. it works more like throwaway chatrooms atm.

Persistent rooms - I'm strongly considering implementing down the road.

Agreed, the User Experience definitely needs a lot more work. Thanks for feedback.

Thanks for picking that up. I would've never picked it.

Thanks. Yeah I'll definitely have to work on the spamming. Leaning towards open sourcing it and maybe run a hosted service.

hi everyone. suggestion: start your own twich by just linking to http://twich.me/[roomname]

and post the link to get others chatting with you. it's getting too crowded in the main room.

hmm... someone's stress testing http://2wi.ch/hackernews atm. let's adjourn someplace else. suggestions?

You can spawn your own twich room by just linking to

http://twich.me/any_room_name or http://2wi.ch/any_room_name

Works on iOS and Android too.

Comments and feedback appreciated.

Use this mirror link if you can't get to the actual site http://bit.ly/cUavpF (matt.might.net.nyud.net)