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Thanks to all our early adopters and beta testers for making this possible.

Here's a direct link to a short (6m) screencast by @imbriaco walking through the basics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYb-Z52oCT0

We'll be continuing to work on the cfn bundle and release new screencasts on more complex workflows over the next few weeks. So, let us know if there's anything particularly frustrating about your current CloudFormation workflow.

Really appreciate it WhitneyLand. Thanks again for reaching out in the first place :+1:

Oh gotcha. Yeah that's mainly for testing, but would be slow to use in practice since it's not behind a CDN. We'll probably start throttling that one, only for use on the homepage, but feel free to signup and use your own account for free.

Yep, we're actively building both url whitelists per Firesize account and url signing.

Oh yeah a default would be nice. Good idea.

The image on the homepage isn't behind a CDN, but when you signup we give you a custom subdomain which is behind a CDN. Although the initial loading and resizing still takes a quick second, before we cache it.

Not exactly. The Heroku addon just means you can easily signup and manage Firesize from the Heroku dashboard. Although the code is AGPL'd so you could totally run your own hosted version of Firesize: https://github.com/asm-products/firesize

Oh nope, but that would be pretty sweet. I'll throw that in the queue of things to build next.

We just grab whatever image you include in the url, so as long as the images in your S3 bucket are public, Firesize should be able to resize them just like normal.

Yep that's exactly why we built it. To be honest it's not overly complex to build yourself, but taking the time to get it right, setting up the CDN, and maintaining background workers can be pretty expensive when you factor in developer hours.

Oh yeah shoot me an email (firesize@helpful.io). We're working on making it available in other regions as well. Sorry about that.

Ah! Thanks iokanuon. If you add a bounty on Assembly, I'll award you some ownership for pointing this out: https://assembly.com/firesize/bounties

Yep, but only for the MVP. Adding our own signup form is something we're working on.

Send me an email at firesize@helpful.io and I can manually hook you up with an account though.

If you join during the beta, we'll grandfather you in to the free plan (no-limits). I should make that more clear on the homepage though. Thanks.

This was built by our awesome community on Assembly. If you have any feedback or want to get involved and help us continue to build this, check out the project on Assembly: https://assembly.com/firesize

Thanks. I'm not sure if this is the best approach since I'm kinda rusty at front-end dev, but @Shea created some super slick, high-fidelity mockups for us. And then I just broke them down into a bootstrap theme and a few custom CSS components. The best approach for quick bootstrap theming seems to be just grabbing all the variables and overwriting the ones you want to change. Here's our monolithic variables file: https://github.com/asm-products/signupsumo-web/blob/master/a...

The pricing issue is one I've thought about a lot. We'll have to see how the first few months go. At the end of the day we'll probably be able to change either our free plan or upgraded plan limits to cover that $99. I'll write a blog post about this once I have more info though.

It has been a pretty crazy past few days, but I'm here (and trying to stay awake) to answer any questions.

Here's our blog post about launching: https://medium.com/@signupsumo/from-napkin-to-shipped-in-7-d...

Also checkout what we have planned next on our Assembly page: https://assembly.com/signupsumo

Ah sorry about that.

You might have heard of him from The American Life[1] or Planet Money[2]

1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

2: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

Here's the blog post about the switch as well: https://assembly.com/octobox/posts/octobox-is-going-open-sou...

Here's the commit to prove it :)

https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/commit/7376a442a7...

Good call. Just update the article and Helpful homepage. Thanks

Just fixed it. Thanks.

Here's the link: https://assembly.com

The conversation limits are for new conversations received per month. So for the Growing plan you can receive up to 1,000 conversations per month. Oh and don't worry too much about hitting the limit. We'll always accept your incoming messages and send you a friendly reminder to upgrade once you start going over. Does that answer everything?

Hey I'm Patrick, core team member on Helpful. Feel free to ask any questions.

Oh and I'd be happy to give out a self-hosted license for Helpful to any Hacker News folks. Just let me know.

If you're in Atlanta and want to say hi, our next meetup is this Wednesday (July 9th) http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/183306632/

We've seen a huge difference in contributions on Helpful after spending more time fully spec'ing out work to be done.

https://assemblymade.com/helpful

Slightly unrelated, but ProductHunt, mentioned in the article and co-created by the author, is really nice. It's very similar to the daily Github Explore email but for new startups. I'd totally recommend it.

If you want to jump straight into some code, here's a link to the demo app I threw together:

https://github.com/vanstee/webrtc-demo

You're totally right. I don't think anyone should be morally obligated to translate discussions into anyone else's language.

Community fragmentation caused by language differences is going to be super tough to fix. Any thoughts on a solution?

Here's the full discussion on refinements as well: http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4085

Might be a little late, but the "Visit Full Site" link should take you to the correct page.