louisstow

Disclaimer: I'm the creator but I use Wall of Text: http://walloftext.co

It's an infinite blank space of text in 2D. Also see the beta: https://beta.walloftext.co

There's nothing special about it really. Blobs of text have a grid position, then I set the CSS left/top properties to gridX * gridWidth etc and the scrolling is done by CSS translate on the parent container div. The browser handles it all for me

General purpose note taking. It's basically a pastebin on an infinite canvas.

Apologies if it's down or slow, it's currently running on a micro instance.

Hey. The backend is pretty simple, NodeJS + Socket.io for the real-timey and Redis for quick and simple storage.

I may write an article about it soon.

Yeah definitely the inspiration. Some of the things I didn't like was the editing ability of text. If I made a typo I would have to rewrite it. Also colours!

Oops forgot to restart Nginx after updating. Thanks!

I've been working on a "web app builder". It lets users create a web app based on a pre-built template and tweak it to their hearts content. Examples are link-sharing apps like reddit, image sharing like Dribbble, blogs, cms, pastebins etc.

Link here: http://getsproute.com

It's also open-source: http://github.com/sproute/sproute

Yeah I'm having a hard to explaining it rather than showing it. Would you take a look at the getting started video and tell me what you think? https://getsproute.com/getting-started . Thanks!

Getting Started page. Will put a more visible link in the home page. Thanks

Ah my mistake. I forgot to check all the guides were completable within the page limit. Will increase the count to 10 or something. Were there any other issues with the guide? Thanks!

Yeah I can see that being confusing. Will change the label and add a little blurb with information where to get the details. Thanks!

Good to hear. I removed the old account and created a new premium one for you. Feel free to send any feedback!

I define forever as the lifetime of the app. Also I will be adding a feature to export sites for use on private servers

Sorry about that. Can you send me your details to support@sproute.io? can you try creating a new space?

Some guides for different types of apps you can build:

- Reddit (https://getsproute.com/docs/reddit)

- Chat App (https://getsproute.com/docs/chatapp)

- Blog (https://getsproute.com/docs/blogapp)

- CMS (https://getsproute.com/docs/cmsapp)

- Image Sharing App (https://getsproute.com/docs/imageapp)

- Portfolio (https://getsproute.com/docs/portfolio)

- Notes (https://getsproute.com/docs/notes) [WIP]

Yeah I basically made it ungoogleable

Great idea! Will add it. The video was an attempt at a good introduction but a FAQ makes sense to me.

The framework will be released as open-source very soon and I will eventually have an export feature so anyone can just export their site to a ZIP and host it on their own machine. That's the plan anyway.

Hey, I'm the developer of CraftyJS and now the lead SDK engineer for Game Closure. I would love to talk further about the tech and potentially working together. You can reach me via twitter (@louisstow) or my gmail louisstow AT gmail.

Engine developers aren't always the best game developers. Bugs are bad but you're not going to get much polish from a demo.

Yes it is fairly easy. But my engine is not JUST for canvas. You can switch entities from canvas to DOM in seconds. There are also components that make things a lot easier such as collision detection, audio, sprite maps, click maps, mouse events. As well as lots of performance optimizations such as using a Spatial Hash Map for all the entities and redraw regions on canvas so only segments that change are redrawn.

Ha me too. Today I am going to make a video tutorial of creating Connect 4. If you want the effects and all that jazz, shoot the lights in elevator action.

Edit: I won't charge you for it either ;)

Very much so. In my tutorials I mention a bunch of times that I encourage developers to write components or extensions and submit them. Just let me write the plugin database first :P

You know what, I agree. But today after the release of ImpactJS I thought, f* it. Release! On my giant todo list, this is one, I assure you.