I got to the create a team name step and got an error page trying to submit the team name. I guess your servers are getting the hug of death from hackernews.
Google Docs is a reasonable comparison, but, a couple of things:
First, we do discrete versions/snapshots, so you can revert back to a particular version in time (along with seeing the associated conversation). Thing something like Github but for non developers.
Second, we support literally any file type. We integrated with Microsoft Office Online to support co-editing live in browser (which is the "like Google docs" portion), but we also support literally any other file type for conversation and activity feed: Photoshop, InDesign, PDF, etc. For many of these files types we also provide live previews and so on.
so how does it compare to just Office.com/WordOnline/OneDrive/SharePoint
it has full versioncontrol for all filetypes and provides your coediting in the browser. Why would I use you as my version control over sharepoint, the thing built into Word Online?
Seems heavily inspired by / very similar to Slack though. A lot of features in common. Slack allows you to post and comment on files but doesn't support versioning yet.
Are you trying to be a Slack replacement with better file handling or is it meant to be used alongside apps like slack?
I posted this on Twitter, but re-posting on HN for further discussion...
A lot of people are going to be talking about how Core is a wearable for runners, but if that's all, we (and _especially_ we at HN) are missing the bigger point.
The Pebble Core is what the Raspberry Pi should be - a fully functional computer so small it fits on a keychain.
One way of thinking about the Pebble Core is as the new CPU at the heart of a new motherboard. If you're building an internet connected piece of hardware, the Core is at the heart of it.
That's what I thought, an upgraded and packaged version of Photon & Electron[1].
But Pebble needs to get serious about openness if they want this thing to catch on. There are already dozens of companies trying this on Ali-Express, Indie-Gogo, Kickstarter, etc.
It is not enough to be "developer friendly", they need an API that gives open access to all the hardware, including Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS controllers. They promised an Bluetooth LE API on Pebble for the end of 2015 and we have nothing so far.
> The Pebble Core is what the Raspberry Pi should be - a fully functional computer so small it fits on a keychain.
Oh... wow... that's very exciting if this is what it is... but then why not market it as such (a competitor to the Pi) instead of a very limited/specialized accessory to a not super exciting watch?
I have plenty of Pis (well, 4) and always wish they were smaller, and had wifi / bluetooth / 3g out of the box; I would buy what you just described in an instant.
(As it's currently described by Pebble, though, it's not that enticing. Maybe we just need to wait.)
Edit: it is actually described as a micro computer on the KS campaign, but buried way down into the page; it's not even immediately clear one can buy the Core without the watch; doesn't it deserve to be marketed independently?
Core is not extensible at all in terms of adding hardware to it. I don't see many people using Pi with only GPS and cell data and accelerometer and not connected to anything else.
I read your post on twitter and absolutely loved it. But Pebble needs to make it accessible. Maybe a special dev version (not everybody will need/want to hack their Core).
I love it when a product gets a new use through mostly a marketing change rather than anything technical.
Online voting (the kind you could do in the comfort of your own home) suffers from manipulation in the more traditional form: I sit at your house with a baseball bat and make sure you vote for my candidate of choice. Voting at a voting booth prevents that.
I'm generally in favor of overhauling the voting system with technology (especially open source technology that can be publicly validated), but I think there are still benefits to having people vote in a supervised public space making sure people can vote anonymously and safely
You're right. I was actually just about to edit my post to comment on the fact that absentee ballots still suffer that problem, so perhaps my thoughts here are invalid.
However, vote by mail is more likely to suffer from the peanut butter & jelly problem, which is getting food smudged on the ballots while filling them out at the dinner table.
Or I come over to your house and tell you I'll give you $10 to vote for my candidate. If you had to go to a voting booth it might not be worth the effort.
The AppHub client is also open source [1] and can be configured to point to any backend [2]. We also support asset updates, and the client has been tested in many production apps.
With CodePush, AppHub, and this, it would be nice to have the community converge on a shared auto-updating client. Perhaps down the road we could see this functionality integrated into React Native itself.
