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That's a valid complaint. I wrote it with a Rails backend because that's a pretty popular backend choice for Ember, and they work together well.

Perhaps I can just extract out the Ember portion -- It should still be applicable regardless of the backend.

That's funny. My friend just told me this too -- I got to the theater about 5 minutes late.

I suppose that's true. Maybe the desired commits could be cherry picked onto the branch before you make the branch into master.

Haha now that would be a challenge

That is also accurate.

Here's a ruby solution that only affects 2+2:

    class Fixnum
      alias_method :old_plus, :+
      def +(other)
        return 5 if (self == 2 && other == 2)
        old_plus(other)
      end
    end

I'm really interested in chatbots, though it seems the underlying state of the art is still pretty poor.

Mitsuku (http://www.mitsuku.com/) won the Loebner Prize last year, and that chatbot still runs on basic AIML files.

I think a new approach is probably necessary to take chatbots to the next level, but I don't know what it is.

Are you able to downvote? I'm curious what the karma threshold is for that.

Basically, yes. It's like Pivotal Tracker as a custom kanban board.

The idea behind Phaser is really Pivotal Tracker as a custom kanban board.

Sure. Or if you know about kanban boards, which have been around for a long time.

I understand where you're coming from.

Keeping a text file synced with the web interface would be super cool. It would certainly be a fun engineering challenge. I'll keep that idea in mind.

That is correct.

I see what you are saying. Thanks for the feedback.

You also get the following with Phaser:

- create and group many stories at once with indentation. you can optionally use Vim for this

- stories have statuses that keep track of state: Started, Finished, Delivered, Accepted, and Rejected.

Those two things and Arcs are what make it different. I plan to add more features in the future which will make it more specific to software, such as robust statistics and predictions around story completion.

A phase in Phaser is equivalent to a column in Trello.

You aren't tied to a specific process in Phaser. You can create a different set of phases for each project and you can change them at any time.

I understand your point on the terminology. There may be a way for me to make it less complicated.

That would definitely be an option.

That's a good idea. Thanks for the heads up.

I used Code Mirror to get the Vim functionality: http://codemirror.net/ . It's open source.

Give me a sec to check it in Firefox. It's very alpha and I've been doing everything in Chrome.

Second Edit: Use the tab key instead of spaces to create indentation. That's what is causing the "set of undefined" error.

Edit: If you reload, then click "New Stories +", it should work. The + button on the individual phases is not working right now in Firefox. Willfix.

Trello isn't specifically made for software project management, but I see your point. I'm not sure exactly what a better pitch would be. The one I have in my head is that Phaser is "Trello meets Pivotal Tracker".

Phaser does some nice things that Trello doesn't do that are specifically related to software. For example you can group Stories into "Arcs", which are like feature sets. This way you can filter stories by Arc and quickly see the progress of each individual Arc.

Additionally, Phaser allows you to quickly create many stories in a single text box, which is great for when you need quickly add a new feature set.

There are more examples which I'm sure you'll see if you actually try the product.

Developer here. I built Phaser to scratch my own itch. I took inspiration from both Trello and Pivotal Tracker, and I think the result is pretty good.

Please let me know what you think.

Make sure to disable Vimium on vimgenius.com if you have it installed.

Do you have personal experience with LendingClub? I'm curious as to how reliable their returns are and how much work it takes.

That's a very interesting strategy. Thanks for the info & the whitepaper.

That's an interesting idea. I'll look into that.

Thanks for all the information! I may contact you for more info soon.

How did this just get bumped to the third page of HN? It was on the front page just 1 minute ago.

I'm specifying those numbers because I expect they will each come with different risk levels. 9% is fine too.