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You scratched the itch I procrastinated to scratch. Others (à la Postrank) tried, you just seem you have tried better! 1 Kudo :) EDIT: Ah, you're the guy behind Raphaël Vector lib, have one more Kudo!

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Raphaël was written by Dmitry Baranovskiy. I only made very minor contributions to the library (animation easing, which are pretty ubiquitous in the examples now) and presented the library at the SVG Open 2009 at Google.

I made Protopub to scratch the itch I think a LOT of us have. I am about a month away from a v1.0, and that's when I'll announce it on HN. Until then, I'm tweaking AI algorithms, fixing UI bugs, and making sure the back-end can handle the more than moderate traffic that HN will send. The few users I get from posts like this are enough to do some basic testing.

Super stuff. I've invested in a Dutch start-up that had this vision about 3 years ago, but got stranded along the way and pivoted in to being a website building company because they found they could make more money in the short term that way (mistake...).

Anyway, I have some appreciation for the difficulties you must have encountered, and it doesn't please me but it will please you to know that at least from them you won't be having much competition.

Is it ok to start using your service? (not from an industrial espionage point of view but because it is useful!)

Absolutely you can start using it. I evolve it every single day. I use Protopub exclusively as my feed reader, and have been for about a month.

Right now, Protopub is an experiment, but it also serves as a beacon to other likeminded hackers in NYC, where I live, that I am interested in meeting others who want to create unique and technically savvy projects. It has done a good job of doing exactly that so far.

Weirdest thing, when I read HN through protopub it wants me to log in again ?

edit: hm, protopub.com proxies all requests ?

I wish you the best! You'll perhaps have some competition if it still itches in spite of your job, after Broodwar AI Competition is over though. :)

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