skram

HackerLeague.org and ChallengePost.com will likely have a listing of most of them. You might want to keep an eye on Twitter and eventbrite.com as well. Also search HN as I know someone built a search engine that scrapped sites like those and aggregated hackathons a while back, I'm pretty sure.

Also don't be afraid to start your own!

Unfortunately this is nothing new. As a small business owner who does work for and with federal, state, and local governments, it's quite sad how often vendors try to take advantage of the system.

https://flippa.com/ too

Also see http://apis.io/

In case you're in NY this weekend.. come to H.O.P.E. http://hope.net - gotenna is on the vendors list!

Why not use the usual job searching sites with the keyword of "non-profit" - most job descriptions include at least a blurb of the company and non-profits will likely mention their status.

Cool but your biggest challenge will be adoption. If you expect users to be repeat ones, I would consider some sort of browser extension or work with sites to integrate your button on their site much like how twitter/facebook share buttons are pervasive these days.

Thanks for the link!

Am I missing something or could this be useful for non-mobile applications as well like HTML/JS apps if they provided an API outside of the iOS/Android SDKs?

Have you seen Stormpath?

This seems interesting. Are you consuming data directly through CKAN APIs or what? I work a lot with both CKAN and Socrata APIs. I'm curious what niche you're trying to fill: is it a one-stop-shop for open data?

PS - I'm also in the Washington, DC area.

There are tons - both open source and hosted.

- Tableau isn't free but its very easy and popular in businesses these days

- Freeboard - open source http://freeboard.io/

- Geckoboard - hosted https://www.geckoboard.com/

- Dashing - open source http://shopify.github.io/dashing/

- http://www.datamation.com/open-source/50-open-source-replace... - 50 Open Source Replacements for Proprietary Business Intelligence Software (many likely have web interfaces)

There isn't an official Twitter API call with these parameters. This site might help you though: https://followerwonk.com/bio

You might want to look into http://authrocket.com/ as well.

Just curious - what was your goal/perceived business opportunity with the site and idea? Advertising revenue or something else?

Check out this SO question, http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/748/is-there-a-g..., which has many answers including http://dat-data.com/

Have you looked into Zotero? https://www.zotero.org/

In case it isn't obvious.. the #1 way to support 2600 is to subscribe (be it for the print or online version) and keep buying merchandise like the calendar, mugs, etc.

http://store.2600.com/

[disclosure: 2600 is not my full time job but I am on the magazine and web teams]

They often end up on torrent sites and the audio often uploaded for free. If you have any suggestions, we're always open to doing things in new and better ways.

@Skram

Thanks Zach. Same thing here. If parents would stop and think about (at least my definition of) what a "hacker" is, a maker/creator/doer/free-thinker, I think they would in fact encourage reading the magazine.

PS - Be sure to try to make it out to HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth): http://hope.net/

Awesome! I do the layout "design" of the magazine and have been for about seven years. Doing something such as that and being able to find it at a Barnes and Noble is very rewarding in a different but similar was as creating a website and seeing people use it...

This is great. Louisville, KY has a similar initiative going on at http://instituteforhealthyairwaterandsoil.org and written about at http://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/environmen...

Disclosure: I'm technical lead for the Louisville project's community data portal component

Here's some data from Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com

It really shouldn't have anything to do with your tech stack being Rails. You can just have some status page site or your own status site (see below) check a certain page/port/endpoint for each of your "usage points".

- Twilio open sourced theirs though it's Python: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2010/07/twilio-open-sources-stas...

- https://www.statuspage.io/ is a hosted version as are the following

- http://www.uptime.ly/

- https://statushub.io/

- https://status.io/

My colleague and I have developed a search interface for web browsers at http://openfdasearch.herokuapp.com/

Feel free to tweet at us at @SocialHealthIs, @Geek_Nurse, and/or @Skram

Also check out http://apiblueprint.org/ which seems to be by the folks at Apiary.io

... and this blog post all about API documentation: http://codebetter.com/glennblock/2014/02/06/a-discussion-on-...

Rackspace and FastMail.fm

Sounds cool but just a heads up, there is a mac file transfer client called ForkLift which has been around for a while at http://www.binarynights.com/forklift/

- Mark

I would look into Box.com which has been working to differentiate itself as being able to have audit logs, be things like HIPAA compliant, etc. They also had robust APIs last time I looked. There's also always AWS S3+AMI if you're willing to do more of the heavy lifting in terms of interface.

Sounds like an interesting app!