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Georgify is great. It was actually released on the same day when I released a similar extension, Readable HN, which is available for Chrome (source in in GitHub) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jpnbjaechgbbpokepg...

[-] jorde 87 days ago link

That is pretty steep taking into account that even Postmark, which many consider expensive, charges only $1.50 per thousand emails. The basic plan is $3.33 for thousand and you're limited to specific daily limits... I usually don't complain about pricing but this just feels too much. Of course these two services are different but I chose Postmark as it's from the expensive end of email sending services. And one can replicate MailerJS in just one evening (when writing this there might already be a open source clone).

Enough with the whining... The main reason why I'm not a fan is that the pricing is hidden behind sign up and the site gives the impression that the service is free.

[-] the_bear 87 days ago link
I don't see why you'd need to use a third party at all for this type of thing. Postmark is designed to increase email deliverability, but if you're only sending emails to yourself, that shouldn't really be an issue. It seems like good ol' sendmail would do the trick.
Agreed on the pricing though. Doesn't seem very honest.
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- [-] toomuchtodo 87 days ago link
  Sendmail doesn't work if you're serving up your site statically from S3. Then again, their pricing is so ridiculous, its cheaper to just POST the email message via REST to a service to send the mail (Postmark, Sendgrid, AWS SES).
  I'm not sure what this solution solves.
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[-] eli 87 days ago link
That really is apples and oranges.
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[-] jorde 99 days ago link

Absolutely agree on 99% Invisible. Roman Mars does a fantastic job and episodes are really well produced. If you're interested on design, this is the show to listen. Episodes are short, 5-15mins.

I actually discovered this during the Christmas break and listened all the episodes in few days. Now it's the highlight of my week.

[-] jorde 105 days ago link

Depends on the salary. As the demand is so high I would try to negotiate a proper intern salary which is still lower that regular >$80k paycheck for engineers.

[-] jorde 132 days ago link

Grove is essentially a IRC server, not a client. While we provide a web based client you can use whatever you want. Even IRCCloud. As we keep web based archives you don't have to keep connection open all the time if you don't want to (once you connect to channel, there will be a message on latest activity).

[-] sgrove 131 days ago link
Still, I agree with hugs. Providing the web frontend as a way to connect to freenode might be a good gateway drug to get people using grove, and then have a simple, 'want to have your own private chat? Click here!' or something along those lines.
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[-] jorde 156 days ago link

I have been using the app for few weeks now. With only few friends onboard it's actually really fun and I love the constrains (every review is binded into a location). This gives is better meaning compared to the competition which are trying to do too much or allow people review too different things. It's all about context. The app might be basic but it's clearly a product made in a short time and I respect the founders for putting it out early without much fanfare.

It's true that image sharing space has blown up but I feel that TinyReview is more of a review app than image sharing (I use is along with Instagram & Path). It's interesting to see if the team can keep the product simple and make it really useful over time. And most importantly: make it into a business.

[-] jorde 175 days ago link

Here's another presentation from Idan Gazit who works with Django: Design for developers: Making your Frontend Suck Less

http://blip.tv/djangocon-europe-2010/idan-gazit-design-for-d... (video) http://blog.gazit.me/doc/32311867/Design-for-Developers (slides)

This is probably one of the best presentation about the basics of web design that I know. He also mentions the book, Designing for the web, in the presentation which is a good entry for typography, colours etc http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php

[-] jorde 186 days ago link

ViewText is really good. If you have stopped development, why not dump the code to GitHub? Open source community could use a good text extractor as most of the current ones are pretty bad on server side and Readability's old code requires browser components to work well.

[-] puzz 186 days ago link
+1 for open sourcing it (from another ViewText user who also happened to need good open source text extractor).
BTW, what programming language you used for ViewText?
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- [-] ronnier 186 days ago link
  C#
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[-] ronnier 186 days ago link
I'm always ashamed of my code.
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- [-] scott_s 186 days ago link
  You're clearly not ashamed of what your code can do, since you showed us the above with no hesitation. (And you shouldn't be, of course.) So why be ashamed of the code that accomplishes it?
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  - [-] jorde 184 days ago link
    Yep, function over form. And the function part is fantastic in this case
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[-] jorde 195 days ago link

You should be able to use Hubot with Grove as it provides IRC interface. We have few users already using it.

[-] Xylakant 194 days ago link
Hubot does provide the irc-interface but then github itself doesn't provide a hubot hook. So you're pretty much stuck at the same place. Github itself does provide an IRC hook but that does not work since it can't authenticate with nickserv, it only allows for server and room passwords.
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[-] injekt 195 days ago link
Assuming you'll have to create an entirely new Grove account for each bot you want to add, though?
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- [-] arbales 195 days ago link
  That's fairly typical though.
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