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ok it's back now!

did some minor polishing, removed the blacks :p.

youre right, prldr without the preloading isn't worthy the name ;-) Will be back in a day or so.

done, read about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646290

You're right, will implement this.

Exactly! The same problem I always had with RSS readers. Think I am going to implement this in a few days.

There's an API to make the twitter link fetching possible. Was curious how people might use it, think there are lots of posibilities. API is very very simple, just 1 RESTful controller. Hope there will be someone who can come up with a cool application that makes use of it.

http://prldr.com/pages/api.html

prldr.com let's you create lists of links and preloads those lists for you.

It's got a very basic API, so you can use it to create and update your own lists.

I can think of multiple use cases for it. For example: load your twitter feed, scrape the links and display them, load all your rss feeds and display them, open up all links off a frontpage, to preload them.

What do you think? What kind of things must I add to make it useful for you? You might just not like it, because of the iframe technique used, just ignore it then, it really is a very hackerish tool and not meant to be more than that.

It currently works best in Chrome/Safari.

you're right! Fixed.

We're building it mainly for ourselves to make it easier to start new products in the future. Will it be usefull to you?

I was already building something like this and your comment made me push the private beta :P.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1451758

We're extracting our marketing tools out of earlier build webapps, this will be backendfu, so webapps can be build even faster. This is it for now, later more information.

clickable link: http://worldlogger.com/

Looks like it's more expensive than S3 at this moment. USD 0.17/GB/Month vs S3: 0.15/GB/Month for storage. Curious to see if this is going to change. An extra competitor in this space will do no harm. Amazon has done a great job, but overall pricing can use some competition I think.

btw. during preview you get 100 gigabytes of data storage and 300 gigabytes of monthly bandwidth at no charge according to: http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/overview.html

I would be interested to see the data splitted out by day also. I can imagine, HN'ers are more active on fridays than on mondays.

You're right about the link colors, already changed it! About the frontpage, we'll see. We will probably do some A/B testing on this one.

Name is somewhat confusing as it also is a popular open-source full-text search engine.

Soo cool you made these stats public. It's not only that you can't loose anything by sharing this data, but you also inspire people by giving out data like this. Really really cool. One question... can you expand on how you marketed this website, sounds like you really did some marketing on this website, I already saw this affiliate program you're running, are their other ways you target your customers, like adwords? Organic traffic? And what's your ratio of development/marketing? Thanks very much for sharing.

clickable link: http://tweetz.tv/

no problem! maybe you can use worldlogger to show your traffic ;-)

appears to be running again, socket issues solved hopefully!

sorry guys the website can't handle the amount of traffic, am fixing this!

nice to hear such a story, indeed they don't come out often... i recognise the focusing on feature thing. I and some friends/colleagues built a few years ago a website were musicians could record online video jams, someone recorded a video, another one another and in total 4 streams were recorded and played at once split screen. It worked great and some great tunes were recorded. But it also didn't provide a solution to a problem and the project is dead now, dead pool oww yeah. We didn't invest any money in it, only lots of time, so nothing to worry about. When I have a little new project in mind, I now know I have to think if it fulfils a need, most of the time it doesn't and then it's very difficult to let that idea go. About my project: hey I learnt a very important skill and he will also! Failure makes smart!