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Comment by kirillzubovsky | Hacker News Reader

If you guys have any questions on Meteor for startups, don't hesitate to ask.

Is there any sample apps that has a version written in Meteor and another using Sinatra/Flask/Whatever+other JS framework?

Is there any sample Meteor app with iOS/Android native clients (clients that use native controls rather than just a mobile web app)?

To answer your first question, TodoMVC (http://todomvc.com/) has a Meteor implementation: http://todomvcapp.meteor.com/

And for our Meteor book, we built a pretty standard forum/HN clone app called Microscope: https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope

But I'm not sure what you mean by a Meteor app with a native client. Do you mean a native client that uses the DDP protocol (http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/03/21/introducing-ddp) to communicate with a Meteor back-end? I haven't heard of that yet, but PiJS (http://pijs.io) uses DDP to do interesting things with the Raspberry Pi.

There is Objective DDP (https://github.com/boundsj/ObjectiveDDP) and a Java DDP Client (https://github.com/kutrumbo/java-ddp-client) although I haven't yet seen a finished product (i.e. a native app that talks to a Meteor app).

But it's certainly possible.

Hi Kirill, in the article you state "would not build production pieces on it yet" Can you point out what are the downsides and pitfalls? We are actually trying to build our MVP completely on Meteor

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