joepestro

beRecruited.com - Fulltime, on-site (San Francisco)

We're the nation's largest online college athletics recruiting platform, and we're hiring. Our team has smart, fun full-stack engineers (including 3 YC founders), and we're growing quickly.

Ruby on Rails or iOS developer? Get in touch with me:

http://blog.berecruited.com/careers or email me directly joe@berecruited.com (mention you saw this post on HN)

beRecruited.com - Fulltime, on-site

We're the nation's largest online college athletics recruiting platform, and we're hiring.

Ruby on Rails or iOS developer? Get in touch with me:

http://blog.berecruited.com/careers or email me directly joe@berecruited.com (mention you saw this post on HN)

Here's another one called Turntable.fm Extended (has a few other features, like notifications):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnciafhfaahhafklck...

The hints on the bottom bar are a nice touch. I kept refreshing the page to see them all. Also found out about the keyboard shortcuts that way! (Hint: Press ?)

Same here! Except instead of blowing up the page, you shoot at links to follow them. Also, fog that is revealed as you move around, minimap, etc. Maybe this can spark some more ideas?

http://tanksurfing.appspot.com/

Whoops! I hacked this together this weekend, there might be a few bugs. Thanks for letting me know though.

You're right. Updated.

This is a rails gem, so you get all the benefits of integration with the web framework. As far as I know, GWO does A/B testing between hardcoded URLs, so the logic is then split between GWO (to redirect to the correct page) and your app (to serve the correct content for that page).

Check out http://www.pinglater.com for calling yourself on a certain date, too :)

Note: I developed this iPhone app

Agree. Tweetdeck does this.

Yep. We had an awesome designer working with our team. He mocked all the pages up after discussing our ideas, then cut then up perfectly for html/css (button sprites, background images, etc).

Wouldn't have been nearly as good without him.

I think you need to list an item to get the 500 credits.

Isn't working in FF3.5, but works fine for me in Safari 4.

I've played with JamLegend before. It's really well done, and this feature seems to be one that is the natural next step for what people want from a music-oriented game. Nice work!

Thanks! Apture is actually really powerful and adds a lot to content (even automatically). I played with it at http://www.apture.com/create/ before implementing it into Kiwis.

Just tried out doubleblind.at. It's neat! I've also seen quizzes that work under this principle where you attempt to guess what picture/status update is associated with a choice of 4 friends. I like your thumbs up/thumbs down approach and then seeing the final results.

This was really fun. I think the time constraint of 1 day allows you to focus on what really matters and how you can be really efficient with productivity.

Constraints are interesting. Twitter = 140 characters, One Day App = 24 hours. What seems like a hindrance turns out to be what makes them popular and engaging. We can show what we can accomplish in 1 day, and it makes the apps featured here that much more impressive.

I know we learned a lot about what can be optimized and where the time sinks really are when making apps that appear to be simple at first glance. There was a pretty lengthy discussion on HN over the past weeks about the perceived ease of building a site like Stack Overflow. Participating in an event like this shows you first hand all the edge cases and details that get in your way when building an app over the course of a weekend (or in this case, 24 hours). There are always things that come up that you don't think of in the planning stages. For me, I always remind myself to use less theory and more action. It's an easy trap to fall into, endlessly planning and trying to figure out everything in your mind. But in my experience it's often better to work through a problem rather than guess at how I would work through it. Sounds like a simple distinction, but it often makes a big difference.

I hope this becomes a recurring event! It was fun to see what we can accomplish in one day.

Just finished building an iPhone app that is awaiting Apple's approval now: http://www.pinglater.com/

We're doing a 1 day web app event this weekend, so I'll be able to share more about everyone's apps soon!

Poster here. This "unimpressive feature" is at the heart of YC backed Posterous. Thought it would be interesting to see the comparison.

And if you want to talk about site guidelines, your comment is against them:

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Leafy Chat looks really neat. The design is a significant improvement over mibbit.

For your website you'll want to pick something that users will be able to display and have installed by default.

HN primarily uses Verdana. Google primarily uses Arial. 37signals uses a combo of Helvetica (generic sans-serif if not present) and Georgia.

Looks cool, but while we're on the subject - what makes this better than the established players like Campfire (http://campfirenow.com/)?

Great post. I think you highlight the real value of the HN community. High quality discussion makes listening for ideas easier as there is more signal with less noise to wade through.

There are few other places on the web where you can listen for quality ideas, discuss problems, and get feedback at a really fast (and efficient) rate.

I assume you need access to iPhone hardware features (microphone, etc). Unfortunately, you can't do that through mobilesafari.

Check out the iPhone SDK for more info: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/

Wow, I'm glad not everyone shares your mindset.

CSS grids aren't that difficult, but I find http://960.gs/ really useful. Having a nice, packaged example of best practices comes in handy.

If this saves me 5 minutes each time I want to create a quick firefox extension, it provides value. Thanks for sharing, trevelyan!

Jetpack is an additional extension install for users.

This framework looks like it builds native extensions without an extension needing to be preinstalled - at least until jetpack is shipped with ff.

I'm looking forward to this series.

So, am I reading this right? TicketStumbler has become a maintenance project for a summer intern?

1. Awesome visual design

2. I really like the screenshots and large sign up button. They're all the same screenshot, though, so I can't get a better idea of what is inside.

3. I'm not the target audience since I'm not a professor. I wish there was a video or more screenshots so that I could see all your work before I need to create an account.

Small CSS issue: I'm on FF3, looks like a vertical spacing issue with your search go button (id is global_search-submit).

This could be made into an iPhone app for email/sms.

It wouldn't replace the native keyboard on the iPhone, but would allow users to compose their message using this triangular keyboard and forward the text to the appropriate application.

For sure, and we agree.

We're not looking to convert on this audience (HN/techcrunch/digg/reddit etc) - we just launched and we think feedback like this from really smart people is super useful. We're still gathering information before we feel like we can present an easy-to-use package for consumers.

It's harder on price comparison forums to ask our customers what they want and get a conversation started when they're looking to discuss the best deals on digital cameras. We tell them about the product, and hope they try it out. If they don't reach out to submit feedback, it doesn't help us as much in improving.