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Thank you, I get the sense that you're not trying to be overly negative. But I'm also slightly confused. If you can't gain credibility with valid arguments and research, how else can you?

> This is kinda funny to me because I know it's untrue. The product I work on in my day job is based on JMVC 3.2 and we can't upgrade to 3.3 because of the size of our app and the amount of refactoring work that would need to be done to make it work with the new concepts.

While it may be a large undertaking for your organization, I wouldn't consider any of these to be irrational changes in API from 3.2 to 3.3: http://www.javascriptmvc.com/docs/done.html

Yes, and I think we do a decent job of highlighting why.

Backbone/Knockout may be well maintained but their scope is fixed. CanJS has gone from the times of $.widget() to <app-component> while maintaining backward compatibility.

I don't think FB is a fair comparison. They are a mature company that operates at incredible scale.

Addendum: The intended audience for this article will not share these same properties.

It's fair to have compromised your expectations of frameworks - since there aren't many that have been around for long - but Bitovi and its clients have not. Our libraries are both backward compatible and constantly innovating.

I had attempted to bring a product like this to life a while back: http://gigyard.com/

Maybe I should re-visit it.

I played around with something like this once: http://akagomez.com/demo/packaging-lazy-dependencies/

The goal was to illustrate how unique dependencies could be packaged separately for progressive loading while navigating single page javascript applications.

If you're interested in the real deal though, checkout http://stealjs.com/docs/StealJS.why.html#section_FasterLoadi...

I haven't used this yet, but it seems like it should make updating mappings much easier. See the "using aliases for greater flexibility" section in this article: http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/changing-mapping-with-zero...

I had to write the scripts to implement this concept myself and it wasn't a quick and easy task. It would had gone along a lot easier if I was able to abstract away some of those queries with a tool like this.

TaskRabbit seems to focus more on simple errands that anybody can do and handles the details for you. They describe it as "Your to-do's, done".

GigYard focuses on helping people describe their unique qualifications so that they can be offered as specific services. Then gives customers the tools sort through those qualifications in order to find what they're looking for. It also takes a more hands off approach and expects that the customer and service provider work together. Similar to the way Craigslist works for buyers and sellers.

Except then I wouldn't like the name as much.

My instinct tried to steer me away from doing that, but my urgency to get something out there overcame it. I had anxiety about every damn word I wrote so I ended up settling with copy I felt "flowed".

I'll look into the type thinness. Thanks for the feedback.

Maybe you're right. I could had titled it.. "Show HN: GigYard - My first landing page".

Thanks! I sourced them from Flickr. You can filter your search to only include photos that are licensed for modifying, adapting, and building upon.

I'm so glad to have this feedback. Identifying my audience and avoiding feature speak where two things I tried to give consideration to while writing the copy. Still, I couldn't work out how to accomplish that.

The biggest difference from TaskRabbit is likely the direction of communication. GigYard encourages you to seek out and engage a candidate based on your needs. While TaskRabbit encourages you to describe your needs then promotes them to candidates for bidding.

For simple tasks I think the TaskRabbit approach works well. I expect that GigYard will be used to find service providers that meet more specific requirements.

Yikes! Thanks for pointing that out.

I'd rather not get distracted by potential issues like that for now. If GigYard gets enough users to upset Fiverr over a potential registered service mark conflict, I'll consider that a good thing.

It seems the service I used for those "share" links is conflicting with my CSS (www.addthis.com). Can't fix it right now, but at least I know where the problem is. Thanks for pointing it out!

I'm thinking that sharing it with existing communities that already engage in this way will be the easiest sell. My first target is my neighborhoods Facebook page that has something like 300+ user. Besides that there are a ton of folks attempting to do this type of work with Craigslist's service postings and I'm hoping a few considerate posts there might help.

This seems unique to your device. Mind sharing the specs? Here's what it's supposed to look like: http://imgur.com/RgoXZuO

You're absolutely right. I made the rookie mistake early on of focusing entirely on the app before getting any market feedback. The copyright issue you pointed out is evidence of that.

I do have a ton of the app built. I'd actually be done if I hadn't made a silly mistake a while back while migrating computers and having to redo a bunch of work.

As a side project though, the amount of work I accomplish in 4 months is something that is entirely unique to my situation. And in this cas I'm terrible at marketing copy, design, etc. So I'm proud of what I've accomplished.

Thanks for your feedback!

Zaarly is new to me, but yes it seems similar. Probably the biggest difference between the two is that GigYard's service providers are individual people, not businesses.

Good morning HN! This is the first of my side projects to make it into public view. Let me know what you think.

If interested in building this, you might consider this option:

http://www.amazon.com/Ledwholesalers-Changing-Flexible-Yours...

Awesome. I've been wanting to see this in analytics for a long time. Not because I would use it, but because I thought it made the most sense. I came across this article on HN a while back that seems to hint at the same thing: http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products...

I believed it was such a necessity that I worked on building a MVP for about a year, but then gave it up a few months ago. The project was way outside my technical ability even after all that I learned and I had absolutely no experience with analytics in general. It was a bad decision to work on it for any period of time, let alone a year. Especially since I had other ideas that I was better suited to build and believed more in.

Now all that's left of the project is a demo video I put together for a job application. This isn't really what I had in mind then, but what the hell...

Show HN: Real-time, visual, click-path, analytics (pathtrends.com) http://vimeo.com/27327367

Sometimes I come across grand hobbies/challenges like this that inspire me to challenge myself in similar ways..

1/4 scale grave digger: http://www.youtube.com/user/rcWizzard/videos?sort=da&vie...

Matthias Wandel's various projects: http://woodgears.ca

Giant robot project: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL13A11662BDE6EB83

But at some point, I end up convincing myself that it's a bad investment of my time. Some examples:

- The above referenced 1/4 grave digger project would be an awesome test of my fabrication skills. But when it's done, I won't enjoy playing with it. 1000's of hours for "push stick forward, vehicle goes foreword". Kind of like lego's, the fun's all in the build.

- I'd love to get into woodworking, but I already have all the furniture I need. Why would I invest in a 1k wood shop (that's CL prices)? What would I create with all the tools and experience? I'm not going to quit my job as a programmer to become an entry-level woodworker.

- I'd love to build my own sawmill (kind of like Jaimie), and build from nature in general. But where would I get wood? Can I make it cheaper than store bought? Do I have the time to invest so that I don't wind up having to go to the store anyway?

- I'm really fascinated by CNC, 3d printers, and metal casting. I want to be able to make my own stuff, and excuse myself from a consumer culture. But those things all involve pretty significant money/time investments. And who are we kidding? After that huge investment, what am I going to print/cast/machine.. that would be worth that investment?

And that's the motivation for my side project.

It seems so: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#grid-sy...

I recently applied at a YC funded startup. Their job description had the most random combination of front-end/back-end technologies that exactly matched my recent focuses, and said absolutely nothing about design. I considered myself extremely qualified.

I received a call the following day and was told I was a top candidate. As the interviews progressed with each founder (3 of them), I started to get the impression that they also wanted a designer. I was super careful about managing their expectations and let them know I wouldn't count on my design skills for anything more than "not ugly".

I didn't get an offer.

This is the second time in my very remote, limited experience I've speculated a startup hiring stereotype that has later been echoed in the community. I've convinced myself that both indicate the lack of experience that startup founders have in hiring. Yet another reason I suspect founders can't find talent. After all, what kind of established, motivated and passionate, developer/designer would want to bet their livelihood on a startup that doesn't pay well, isn't clear about its expectations, and shows signs of inexperience?

Are you talking about Contribute?

I think what you've pointed out is true. Once I learned BB, I've always felt like I had to decide between fast views with KO, or scalable logic with BB. When the modelbindings plugin came into my life, I was super excited to potentially have the best of both worlds.

It was immediately obvious to me, the downsides you suggested. In my simple case it was an append interface, not an edit interface, so I stubbornly worked around it by creating orphaned models that are bound to my user editable view, and then get added into the app focused collection once submitted.

I can't believe I never thought to do this myself. I have always wanted a Kaossilator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3_yXmIfmYg

It renders a square tile that is rotatable with your mouse.