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slogsdonon Elixir v1.0.0 released

Professionally, we built ChatBlend[1], a live chat system that incorporates SMS conversations as well as standard web chats.

Personally, I've built a few projects, most recently a HTTP REST toolkit [2].

[1] https://www.chatblend.com/ [2] https://github.com/slogsdon/placid

slogsdonon Why I wrote gocraft/web

Martini is relatively new, so there's a good chance it was released after he started work on this.

slogsdonon Ask HN: What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

Louisville, KY

Thriving startup and entrepreneurial communities. Variety of neighborhoods to match your personality for a decent price. Enough music, theater, food, etc. offerings to keep things interesting.

slogsdonon Build, test and deploy a Go application to Heroku

I just finished up configuring one of my apps with their ssh deploy step. The whole process of defining build and deploy on green steps makes their service easy and worthwhile. I'm excited to see what they have in store for the future.

To add, Wercker's customer service is pretty awesome as well. One of their guys forked my app and submitted the necessary changes to get it to properly build when I was unable to do so myself. I think this dedication towards making sure the customers enjoy their service is going to help build their customer base.

slogsdonon Ask HN: Why aren't you working on a startup?

I came here to say the same thing.