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Looks great, is there a hosted link somewhere for people to play with without having to download?

Yep, just the main national tracking polls. We email every one out so at the state level it might get overwhelming. And we can't really put too much into a filtering setup since it's a product that'll autodeadpool in 2 weeks :)

Oh, come on. It's only 2 more weeks. Just think of it like a really big sporting event, except way less impactful ;)

We'll also be tweeting out poll results from http://twitter.com/pingpoll

Developer here. I helped build this site after noticing I was checking presidential polls like 12 times a day and really wanted a quick disposable tool for the next 2 weeks to get them as soon as they are released.

On Nov 6th, we'll shut the site down and permanently delete the entire list.

Hope you find it useful!

Definitely. I bet there's a lot of companies / startups who need something quick and simple though. So lots of room for both solutions.

CreateJS is awesome. This service seems to be more about content hosting though. So still useful to some people I think.

Awesome, thanks a ton! Fixing up deploybutton now, hope to have some of the bugs worked out soon.

Luckily great tools have been built for this. We use Opscode Chef and it's life changing. After an admittedly painful learning hump, we're able to completely power our sysadmin via code.

DeployButton is just the trigger button, not the missile :)

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. As you may already know, this was built for the 48hour Rails Rumble hackathon. So it will definitely have quirks and there's a ton of stuff we had to cut (like collab git access instead of full oauth which i believe would have solved most security concerns).

Dropbox let us set things up nicely, where we opt for only a single folder (Apps/DeployButton) and we can only see stuff you place directly inside.

The main appeal of DeployButton for me was to have a service I could easily connect to Campfire/Hipchat to script out deployments from there. It's not that deploying is "hard", it's that it's tedious and I believe should always done as a collaborative experience instead of solo.

More feedback greatly appreciated. Site and workers are already overloaded (we didnt anticipate an HN post). So apologies in advance.

Awesome writeup! Rails asset management can get pretty complex for newbies, but with a few good strategies like described in the article, it can be tamed and managed without too much trouble.

Completely agree, it should be emphasized that nReduce isn't trying to compete with existing accelerators. I think it's actually a great first step for companies to get to the point where they can join one (since the good ones tend to require serious traction just to get in).

Personally the best thing our team got out of being an nReduce participant is the weekly checkins. Having 12 video checkins that document our progress has been really useful for showing investors the amount of progress our team can make week by week. We intend to continue this habit throughout the life of the company.

Actually, App.net is quite useful already with it's 17k users (as was twitter when it had that many people).

It doesn't have to compete with Twitter, just provide a growing self sustaining user base of paying customers. Seems like an ok business strategy to me.

I would pay (prepay) for this. OmniGraffle has been painfully slow to improve, and just doesn't seem to cater to web or app ui design. Unfortunately it's the best thing out there so far. Need something better.

Build this as a native app and charge $monthly. That way people can get started with it for cheap and if you keep making a good product, they'll keep paying you for it.

I really feel like the 1 time app charge model is severely broken for consumers. Omnigraffle gets my $200 bucks and all of a sudden there's nothing I can do to influence them anymore as a customer. The product stays pretty much the same for 4 years, as they move on to find the next pot of gold app to build.

Sorry, I just meant compared to Rails in terms of impact. Ember is nothing like Rails architecturally. There's a good comparison here: http://emberjs.com/guides/ember_mvc/

So yeah. Ember's problem is convincing people there's a problem (hint: there definitely is).

pangratz has created an awesome example dashboard app (along with source) http://code418.com/ember.js-dashboard/. He also wrote up a dev blog series on it: http://code418.com/

Perfect article and explanation. After having bought into Ember a couple months ago and using it heavily, it's been really hard to express to others why it feels so revolutionary.

Ember really changes JS development in ways that the other frameworks don't even attempt. And in a way this hurts it in the perception of developers, since it more often than not is just tagged as "too complicated" or "too much to learn".

The more great articles like this, and I think there'll be a solid chance Ember catches on in a big way the same way Rails did. With 1.0rc, the tech seems to be solid enough now and it just needs a push on the other stuff (education, marketing, etc). And most importantly: some more successful Ember apps out in the wild (I'm working on that one).

Another simple idea (that you've no doubt thought of): using Twitter (or App.net) authentication. That way people are a bit less anonymous and more accountable. I can imagine people would hate this, but they might be the same people who are the haters to begin with.

I don't think this phenomenon is just on Hacker News. I believe the recent negativity shift is an actual change in the startup community's perceptions of the world.

When things are "hot" in our industry, and seemingly trivial companies are exiting for billions, the people who are still struggling start to develop a somewhat bad attitude. I see it all the time particularly from people who are working on "serious stuff" and then lash out when they see Instagram's success (which they've been saying for years: "sure, but what's their revenue model??").

I don't condone it and honestly think it's genuinely strange. Now is as amazing a time as any to be founding a startup. Success of others (no matter how trivial) only makes things better.

To clarify, I'm not affiliated with App.net in any way (aside from being a backer). Just an idea I had that I thought would be cool, and make App.net really useful to me as a user and developer.

I think the App.net client should just show a little warning saying "{{middleware_name}} no longer responds. [Disable] [Retry]"

You can also sign up by email on the login page. We just put the linkedin icon on the homepage to make things easy on people. It's a work in progress still :)

Definitely appreciate the feedback!

hehe, yeah. it's a bit forced. but who cares right? :)

Sure, of course, and the "n" is a nReduce isn't really an n. Stands for "Eta Reduction". http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Eta_conversion

But names are just names. We tried to have a bit of fun with ours.

nReduce has been incredibly helpful to our startup and I'm super psyched that Joe and Josh have been able to put dev resources into building what's turned into one of the most useful resources to keep our startup motivated and shipping things every week.

I helped kick off the initial idea a few months ago, and it's morphed into something way different and in my opinion way better than what I initially was aiming for.

UI is gorgeous, shows how much Apple has been dropping the ball lately in their mobile browser design.

I really wish Apple would allow Nitro on UIWebViews. It's making an entire generation of apps that rely on UIWebView (like... Facebook) artificially slow.

friggin phreaking boxes ;)

Great point! nReduce is not your customer. Your customers are your customers. nReduce is there to remind you and to motivate you to ship to your customers every week. Our goal is to motivate, plain and simple.

The ease of implementation is actually specifically because of twitter usernames. We can do stuff like team permissions via just a comma delimited list of @handles. Pretty handy

Actually, the main motivation for me to start nReduce was so it would exist, and I could be part of it. I really wanted something like YC for my startup lizibot.com, and since YC wouldn't have us, we figured we'd try to solve our own problem.

I'm also thankful some great people (like Joe) have stepped up as partners and will be taking it over so I can focus on my startup.

Updated the homepage copy a bit. Thanks for the feedback