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Reminded me of the Citadel from Mass Effect. It's beautiful!

Just switched to Cloudfront. It's running extremely fast! Thanks for the suggestion mate. :)

Sure, I'm currently running on:

Heroku Postgres Crane: $50 (just in case) SSL Endpoint: $25 1 web dyno, 1 worker dyno: $34.50

I'm still using a free Sendgrid to send emails (200 emails per day) but I'm sure I'll have to pay more sooner or later.

I used to use DV provided by Media Temple and it only costs me $50/month.

Yes, you are right. Sorry about that, I was typing that on my phone. :)

Thanks for the suggestion mate. I'll definitely try cloudfront!

The app seems to run fine right now, but I'll have to see how it goes. It is quite expensive though using Heroku but it is a lot easier to scale than using dedicated vitial machines like I did with MyColorscreen.com (my previous project).

For me personally, developing on rails made my life so much easier. There's a gem for everything. Facebook/Twitter/Foursquare can be integrated by just a few lines of codes.

Also in terms of resources like tutorials, rails community is by far the largest I've seen. Railscast.com really helped a lot in this project.

Thanks for your suggestion mate! I'll definitely try to fix the font rendering on Windows. It's a shame that PC can't render the same way as mac. It's so much more pleasing to look at the design on a mac. :)

Thanks mate! I did everything my self. I don't usually do this kind of design so for this project, I went all in with skeuomorphism and this is the result of that experiment. :)

Yes, this is mainly the point. :)

It's mainly because of the data and open graphs yes. :) Facebook really provides a viral way of exposing my app to other potential users. The app is initially designed to evolve around Facebook but during the process, I decided to step away from that.

Thanks for a great suggestion! I'll definitely adjust the button sizes. :)

Thanks for the suggestion mate. Really appreciate it. :) I might open up registration very soon.

Thanks! I'm quite happy about the design as well. Trying to create a unique personality with skeuomorphism. :)

Which part? The landing page? Those are simply a cached result displaying as a ticker to make it looks real time but it actually loops through the result.

Thanks mate! Really appreciate your suggestion. I don't usually post on HN so not sure how to proceed. :)

Inspiring!

Totally agree! Another example is Reddit and Dig. But I believe the trend will eventually give weight to UI to be as equal importance as UX as web styling technologies evolve (CSS3). I am not saying that UI will overthrown UX, but I think It will goes together.

Thanks for commenting by the way. :)

I totally agree with you here, speed also plays a great role into this, but don't you think using SDK buttons seems a little too lazy?

Good design doesn't always mean as shiny as it could get. Minimal approach such as Windows Phone 7 UI design is also consider as a good design.

I understand what you are trying to imply here. I just realized that I also should have given some comparison on shiny and minimal designs as well. Thanks for mentioning about this. :)