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I think they should focus on showcasing the directory more than the video itself since it really does a better job at showing you the possibilities.

http://flavors.me/directory

I really like the looks of these pages, although it seems to me it all boils down to how clever you are designing your background image.

Seems like a good way to leverage the platform!

I'm still waiting for Twilio to accept payments outside the US though... Only limited to the trial otherwise. Hopefully it'll happen someday!

Exactly!

It's not like it is really that complicated to make it work from there... If you think it is, learn CSS properly (i.e. stop cutting corners!).

I fail to see the use of CSS frameworks (and yes, I have tried most of them).

Honestly, in my experience:

- The time you invest in learning the ropes of that framework would be better invested in properly learning CSS. I wouldn't say this of any framework in any language, but CSS is easy and, contrarily to what I constantly hear, it isn't that hard to master.

- Once you know CSS well, it's much faster to convert a PSD by hand than trying to make it work with your framework. The more detailed the actual design, the more this applies.

- The only pseudo-framework that actually boosts styling speed is leveraging a well-maintained css reset stylesheet.

Keep in mind that this is coming from somebody that knows CSS well... I understand why a framework sounds appealing, especially since we have a lot of them on the development side, but in the case of CSS, it is total overkill.

What is so wrong exactly with basic material?

Sure you might know CSS inside out, but I'd be willing to bet some people here could learn something useful out of it. The rest of us that already are familiar with it get a quick refresher in under 5 minutes.

Positioning and the box model are at the core of understanding CSS layouts. Sure it's not the next cool thing and it certainly isn't advanced, but I'd much rather browse a Web where people understand layouts properly, than one filled with a lot of the trendy, over-complicated crap that fails at the basics.

We have to be careful with that basic = not challenging = not geek-worthy attitude. A beginner reading HN comments will most likely emulate it and miss out on the important stuff.

I don't think it has yet.

It's really easy to connect to hosted NOSQL environments though, if that's your cup of tea. AFAIK there are some solutions for most of them: MongoHQ, Couch.io and another one for Redis I can't recall.

You could also do it yourself. Basically anything that is also on EC2 shouldn't affect performance too bad.

Great news! I host a lot of my stuff on Heroku and have had a great experience so far. Deploying with a git push is pretty satisfying!