Rails Rumble finalists announced - Vote for the best 48-hour micro-app

Yeah, the judges were mostly nice and gentle, and they had to back up their votes with comments. The public voting round isn't going to grant any leniency, since if someone doesn't like something, they'll just 1111 it.

Many teams did have a designer or somebody with some web design chops - so don't feel too bad.

Smart move, too. For a rapid development competition like the Rails Rumble, a good first impression goes a long way.

Yep. We had an awesome designer working with our team. He mocked all the pages up after discussing our ideas, then cut then up perfectly for html/css (button sprites, background images, etc).

Wouldn't have been nearly as good without him.

Thanks for the compliment! We do have some hacky code that gets chrome to work, but we're not sure why we need it. Googling around you don't hear other people facing the problems we are.

We built http://lazeroids.com in 48 hours for the http://railsrumble.com/ programming contest. Since we didn't have a lot of time, we didn't get to much performance optimization. There's a ton of low hanging fruit in that area that we'll deploy after the contest voting ends on Sunday. (You can't make changes during the contest, only during the 48 hour weekend competition).