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Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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26 pointsbenblair19 comments

I'm getting a lot of 'permission denied' alerts trying to do anything. Even if that's the case, typically apps try to volley that into a 'Sign up now!' instead of the negative.

Same here, I can't see enough or play with it enough to see if it's useful. When I try to click I keep getting "permission denied".

Ah, yea we disabled the functionality that's not explicitly needed for the walk-through. As @tmcw suggests, "sign-up to enable this" would be much more helpful to all concerned than "forbidden". I'll fix that...

Using Google Chrome 17 on a Mac, I get "Permission Denied" on almost everything. If I drag "Mapper" or "Joiner" or "SetConverter" onto the main area, I get "Permission Denied".

My impression is that this app simply does not work. Also, its been 3 hours since you said you would fix the issue with "Permission Denied" but it is apparently still a problem.

Probably a good idea to make sure your app works before you bash Yahoo Pipes. Just my $0.02. :)

Ha, most definitely :) Our UI layer is not happy ATM. Hack hack hack...

And Yahoo Pipes had always worked for me, when I used to use it.

Your intro text runs off my screen (1360x768 laptop, not a really unusual resolution), and scrolling zooms stuff in and out in the background.

I don't think I have as much screen real estate as this was designed for, and I don't tend to browse in full-screen mode. You should consider letting people use scrollbars. I can't even read the entire splash message.

Maybe it works, but I don't know what to do...

That is a solid ton of text, which I read, and I'm still not sure.

I was kinda hoping to see "here's a feed with the top stocks and what twitter is saying about them" but instead I saw yellow boxes and permission denied.

Thanks. You end up creating that feed by the end of the walkthrough, but as you and several others point out, the payout is way too late. Based on all the useful feedback here, I'll add a TL;DR and rework it so that the first thing you see is more along the lines of "here's a feed with the stock prices attached to tweets" --> "See how it's done...".

Maybe you should make a TL;DR how it works; I have not ran into much applications in my life I couldn't do anything with without rtfm.

I didn't know Pipes didn't work? I thought it was just basically way too complicated for almost anyone besides a programmer?

I like the boxes but it desperately needs immediately visible results.

Making a short video should be essential for something like this.

We've got a short video at http://cerrio.com/. It's pretty rough, but will give you a little more context if you're interested.

Looks very interesting, but way too much to read.

doesn't work?

I see what you did there. You made fun of a company that's in the slumps to promote your own little product. Too bad Yahoo Pipes works, and your product does not.

So should we say that Yahoo Pipes is like cerrio, but works?

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