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Comment by TimJRobinson | Hacker News Reader

Is anyone here running Meteor in production? I've seen so many intro's and demo's and prototypes but have yet to see any actual products / companies built around it yet.

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I have two Quora answers on similar questions:

- http://www.quora.com/Which-startups-use-Meteor-in-production - http://www.quora.com/What-open-source-software-uses-Meteor-f...

Workpop is a large production app running on Meteor. They also raised $7.9m http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/16/workpop/

A couple months ago we launched edgee, a platform for sharing high-quality content in carefully curated collections, called edgees. The app runs on Meteor and we're very happy with it. http://www.edgee.com

Great site, awesome UI. I'm also working on a web app using Meteor. This just gave me some inspiration.

Thanks for the kind words :)

I browse with cookies disabled for privacy reasons. How is it that every time I visit a webpage made with meteor, the only thing I get is a blank page ? Is it specific to meteor to not work without cookies enabled, couldn't it at least display a message asking me to enable cookies, even an error page explaining why I get nothing but a white background.

Sidebar.io is based on Telescope which powers a number of sites: http://sidebar.io/

Hmm. Sidebar is an example of a site that has no reason to use client-side scripting at all. It's a plain list of links, and yet doesn't work without Javascript, and is far, far slower than it should be.

A good summary of pop-webdev in 2015

Creator of Sidebar here. You're right, it's not the best showcase of Meteor. The reason it's this way is because it's running on a very old fork of Telescope (http://telescopeapp.org), and I haven't had time to update it.

But you make some good points. Meteor is not for everything, and if I had known from the start that Sidebar would end up being just a list of links I might have used a different stack (like Rails, or even a static site generator).

Check their home page - and those exact words you used just now, those look awfully familiar to what people used to write when Rails first came out. :)

I have such high hopes for Meteor!

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