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Comment by andymoe | Hacker News Reader

I wonder how hard it would be to get running on a small heroku instance just for fun...

EDIT: Upon further investigation, I've found that one dyno is not enough to run Diaspora on Heroku. You'll quickly start filling up your request queue and it will slow down to a crawl.

It works.

  heroku addons:add mongohq:free

Then apply this patch to make Diaspora use the correct Mongo server and database: http://gist.github.com/581833

You also need to change the Carrierwave config to use S3 instead of local storage.

Well I believe heroku includes ImageMagick by default, so it seems the only dependency would by MongoDB. Has anyone ever used the MongoHQ add-on? http://addons.heroku.com/mongohq

It's funny, since hearing about Diaspora I understood it as your own portable web app that people run on something like Heroku for non-developers.

You may be on to something there.

Yep. It's easy to get started. I wrote a lightweight logging system on top of it before I switched to logworm.

I am currently using it for the Hackety Hack site. It's pretty easy to use, check it out:

http://github.com/hacketyhack/hackety-hack.com/blob/master/c...

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