mrchess

I don't think that should belong on the list. It's like adding the gem bootstrap-rails on your list.

I don't understand why you need to charge with pricing-per-transaction. This seems like something you'd pay monthly for, no? I'd be curious to know why you decided not to do a subscription plan.

I ~want~ to use Meteor on a large project, but they only are in Preview and in the FAQ states there will most likely be major API changes each [preview?] release, with no 1.0 release date in sight.

I've had a checkout script running for 10 minutes with no luck despite the site says they are in stock. Just running into errors. I'll probably let it run for another 20 minutes before giving up.

This is unfortunate though as I was trying to use the Nexus as an opportunity to migrate off iOS.

EDIT: Finally got it after 1 hour of running the script.

Lots of editorial issues, for example when describing C# and F# some of the information is incomplete/mixed. Too bad there is no comment section.

Nice implementation. For those not wanting to use a library you can achieve the same functionality by binding to the touchStart/touchMove events instead of 'click'.

Awesome! Was afraid something bad happened.

I wonder what happened to Bob. He isn't even a contributor.

Agreed. You need to get this down to 30 seconds or a minute. It is way too long. I watched for like 20 seconds and had no idea what the hell was going on... didn't find out for a good 2 minutes. Nobody is going to watch it.

I don't think a tutorial would help. The feeling is similar is that of being thrown into Photoshop. Here's a couple initial thoughts after playing for 30 minutes:

1. Not sure what monitor size you are using, but the right menu blends with the editing area. Would be nice to add a shadow to give me clarity on the division of the right menu.

2. Resize handles on a lot of objects yet I can't resize them.

3. Clicking on the items on the left menu for a preview throws me off. Makes me think that the descriptions are options eg. Page Heading (I tried to drag some of them out a few times).

4. How do I zoom out?

I guess in the context of a Bootstrap toolkit, less is more. I just want to be able to drag stuff and have it all "work". I don't really care about the extra options because the padding, typography, is already taken care of with Bootstrap. That being said I'd want Advanced features to be opt-in.

My 2c.

It's a cool piece of engineering, but feels feature bloated to me. I am genuinely confused with the interface.

My only feedback would be to make it simpler by removing or hiding some of the advanced functionality. Shoving options in my face is just so overwhelming. Like, what am I even looking at here? http://i.imgur.com/baoGV.png

The canvas isn't really in focus. For some reason a textarea is highlighted in red, I have all these options on the right... so many numbers. I can edit position (isn't part of the beauty of bootstrap a locked grid system?), anyway, you get the idea.

Curious how you landed on the color scheme for the keys. Is that how you hear them?

I just ask because I've always heard D as "red" and you had yours at red/orageish. Was wondering if it was just coincidence.

EDIT: Scratch that. Just realized it was ROYGBIV with C as the root. :)

Cool article but I hope people don't start trying to follow this path. Ask yourself -- why did he stop?

Curious to understand why the two biggest projects are no longer maintained. Usually usage drives people to continue development, so can we assume nobody used their products? Filled out the survey.

No doubt I agree as well. Best way to learn is by imitation. But yeah, it is just a concern, that's all.

Out of the box Rails solutions with integrated payment systems scares me as it allows people with little Rails experience to quickly allow payments.

I'd parallel my concern to beginner developers who create Rails projects that don't check for User ownership when navigating to /edit paths.

Implementing Stripe is almost a small rite of passage. It forces you to understand the API, and how it treats payments and other various objects.

How does one write regular expressions for profit? Do you mean using regex's to filter datasets or do you actually sell regex's?

There needs to be some sort of reward system for filtering out new. It would be great if they would reward 1/10th of a karma point up to a certain limit per day or something. It would be motivating!

Wow, after all this time I never realized there was no topic downvote. Thanks for the info.

Who cares? How does this make it close to the front-page? I really wish I had a topic downvote button.

Nice to see they got their domain back.

Tent.is is the most confusing domain name, ever. Hurts my brain when I read anything. Feels like bad grammar.

"Tent.is is the easiest..."

Not to mention I have no idea what "Tent.is" actually IS after reading the extremely confusing blurb.

I'm tired of these stupid sensationalist articles. Pre-IPO everyone talks about how amazing it is, post-IPO everyone just talks about it dying and failing. People need to do something better with their time then speculate over stupidity. It's simply way too early to tell anything.

Unless you have data that suggests otherwise, I wouldn't rely on an additional layer to get to your target demo (the HS students). Adults/teachers/parents have lives, and in HS anything they tell their kids to do isn't "cool".

Somehow you need to emphasize more that a Meriftul account is respected and credible at institutions. Then the kids will be motivated themselves to create these accounts. They need to discover it themselves.

My suggestions on a presentation perspective:

* You should push the "college logos" to the top of the design and immediately emphasize that selling point. Think the mind of a student. They immediately see ivy colleges and will feel inspired it will give them edge. Currently it is just a wall of text and buzz words.

* You should make TWO separate landing pages. One for students and one for mentors. Make the student page 100% student oriented and designed differently -- more fun. Add a button "Are you a mentor? Click Here". The mentor page will be the more professional one.

* That girl can easily pass as a college student/working professional. HS'ers are very groupy and very fun oriented. You should put a group photo up there or something. Example (www.andover.edu). See how much more fun it immediately feels?

* Put pictures on the "About" page. It looks unprofessional and awkward without them.

* A network geared toward high schoolers, yet the landing page I just see a bunch of business professionals -- not 1 photo of a person from high school (till I scroll down). Who is your target? The students or the mentors?

I did the same thing. Quit my cushy salaried corporate job for something bigger. While I don't regret it, I do wish I wasn't so rash with my decision. The biggest I didn't realize until it actually happened was that it really hurts to consistently lose money when you had been used to getting a sizable paycheck.

This hurt made me frustrated when my projects didn't succeed or generate revenue -- I'd ask myself why I sacrificed $X dollars for failure. I could argue I was gaining knowledge, but it sucks to have a negative income. Every day I felt strained to figure out how to make money again, and this stress didn't give me the relaxed atmosphere I thought I would have.

In retrospect I won't quit my full-time job again until I have something that already generates revenue, or a much larger nest egg.

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Visited page. Couldn't get in. I left. No idea what Napkin does.

Can you actually host the old documentation this time and not leave us in the dust like you did in the 1.4 => 2.0 release?

Would be nice if the author had a section where he wrote in detail about the problems with the architecture and team, as I like reading about the "struggles" in team management and how they were solved.