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I want this for something like Fiverr. Instead of my kids accumulating more junk, they learn the skills of hiring and delegating. Don't want to mow the lawn in this heat? Use your …

My mom wrote books using WordStar on the original IBM PC. She didn't like the default keys so she learned assembly to change them. She didn't change ^K^B, I still remember that one…

I wish Facebook, Twitter, etc had some kind of "accuracy checker" built in. For example, if somebody posts a photo and describes as something that shocking that recently happened, …

For a tool we are all required to use but hate using, I'm surprised there haven't been huge improvements in email clients since Google introduced Gmail 10 years ago. There have onl…

Ot: how did they do that header in github-flavored markdown? Github's preview mode doesn't render it correctly and I can't find anything about it in Github's docs. Here's the sourc…

Hi, I'm one of the creators of Doodle or Die. The drawing tool in the game and the anti-cheating systems are both things I created. I'm impressed with your app. Instead of converti…

$10,000 at $3/album means over 3000 albums were sold that day, out of 6000 available (according to his ad). So more than half of this random collection was worth buying, and if let…

Works on the new Evo 4G LTE. I wish it had drawing ability, but your art skills are way better than anything I could do. Was this inspired by Windoodles? http://windoodles.tumblr.c…

I see you are using Node and Express on the frontend - what other Node modules are you using or found useful?

Doodle or Die is all HTML5. Doodles are stored as JSONP: http://doodles.s3.amazonaws.com/d2/5iSFn-ME/8qp73zuBe.js This json renders in canvas as the page loads like these amazing d…

> The only technical problem where I've seen node be a unique solution is dealing with third party apis concurrently. Use a library like Async, it makes this really easy. https://g…

Awesome, thanks.

Retain users: More than 70% of our daily visitors are return users, but we do need to figure out some way to notify users when their chains are complete, etc. We'll probably ask fo…

That is so cool, thanks for sharing the screenshot! I love seeing how different developers show the final chain. There have been many times when I've wanted to give up on Doodle or…

NPM Modules: mongodb async - no more insane levels of nested indents when doing async javascript express - middleware ejs - templating system logging - very simple logging module i…

Server Config: 1 GB of RAM vm at Joyent. This much ram has been perfect. We've actually had 1000 people playing at once on our first machine which only had 256 MB of RAM.

Database: Mongo We're using a 5 GB instance at MongoHQ with backups to S3. Mongo is insane fast compared to what I'm used to with MySQL, and I love the JSON-based query syntax over…

I agree about a colophon! We have a lot of this information on our About Page but maybe that's not the best place for it. http://doodleordie.com/about I'll reply to each technology…

We have a reporting system to get rid of those few bad apples from 4Chan (amazingly most 4Chan players love the site and play legitimately).

Do other drawings load slowly for you? Most images you see are drawn via canvas using the same code that runs when you draw with your mouse. For example: http://doodleordie.com/pro…

It is very simular - but we actually had never heard of or played Broken Picture when we created the game. I wish we knew about it before launching because there have been many tim…

Doodle or Die by about 6 months 2011-Aug-28: Doodle or Die 2012-Feb-06: Draw Something 2012-Mar-26: Drawception (edit: formatting)

We want you to have a user name, and the Node module we're using for authentication (EveryAuth) makes it easy to require a user name and password but not easy to require a user nam…

What browser and version are you using? I developed the drawing tool using Chrome, tested in Firefox, and people tell us it works on the iPhone and iPad. Also the game is 100% Java…

Wow, excited to see a shout out on HN for something I created! I'll try to answer any questions you have, especially technical questions about running a game with thousands of user…