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silentrobon Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing

Honestly, both. We are big believers in open source and creating more value then we can capture. This was true when we created PhoneGap, and still true today.

The Platform is not far off and we have people using it, we just want to apply a little more polish and make the experience exceptional.

silentrobon Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing

Done - http://harpjs.com/docs/environment/lib

silentrobon Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing

We haven't changed. We are just launching our open source server / APF first, building a little more community around that and then we will launch Harp.io.

silentrobon Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing

Today we launched our open source tool, but we also have a hosted platform that is build on Dropbox. See harp.io for that.

We have hung out with the Backlift guys - they are awesome.

silentrobon Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing

We started with LESS and Stylus, but Sass is in the works.

silentrobon Review my startup: Akshell, now with CommonJS support

You should have a look at the Joyent Smart Playform. I think it is very similar, supports CommonJS and Git style deploy. (Plus it is open source) http://github.com/joyent/smart-platform