Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by benblair » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:54 PM UTC

johnnyg wrote: post #9

Maybe it works, but I don't know what to do... That is a solid ton of text, which I read, and I'm still not sure. I was kinda hoping to see "here's a feed with the top stocks and what twitter is saying about them" but instead I saw yellow boxes and permission denied.

Thanks. You end up creating that feed by the end of the walkthrough, but as you and several others point out, the payout is way too late. Based on all the useful feedback here, I'll add a TL;DR and rework it so that the first thing you see is more along the lines of "here's a feed with the stock prices attached to tweets" --> "See how it's done...".

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by leoedin » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:54 PM UTC

Your intro text runs off my screen (1360x768 laptop, not a really unusual resolution), and scrolling zooms stuff in and out in the background.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by neworbit » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:55 PM UTC

I don't think I have as much screen real estate as this was designed for, and I don't tend to browse in full-screen mode. You should consider letting people use scrollbars. I can't even read the entire splash message.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by franze » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:57 PM UTC

doesn't work?

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by jond3k » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 10:11 PM UTC

I like the boxes but it desperately needs immediately visible results.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by benblair » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 10:17 PM UTC

hobonumber1 wrote: post #8

Probably a good idea to make sure your app works before you bash Yahoo Pipes. Just my $0.02. :)

Ha, most definitely :) Our UI layer is not happy ATM. Hack hack hack...

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by newobj » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 11:25 PM UTC

I didn't know Pipes didn't work? I thought it was just basically way too complicated for almost anyone besides a programmer?

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by rprasad » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 1:08 AM UTC

I see what you did there. You made fun of a company that's in the slumps to promote your own little product. Too bad Yahoo Pipes works, and your product does not.

So should we say that Yahoo Pipes is like cerrio, but works?

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by mayanksinghal » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 1:26 AM UTC

benblair wrote: post #16

hobonumber1 wrote: post #8

Probably a good idea to make sure your app works before you bash Yahoo Pipes. Just my $0.02. :)

Ha, most definitely :) Our UI layer is not happy ATM. Hack hack hack...

And Yahoo Pipes had always worked for me, when I used to use it.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

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Post by lkrubner » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 1:37 AM UTC

benblair wrote: post #10

kenrikm wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here, I can't see enough or play with it enough to see if it's useful. When I try to click I keep getting "permission denied".

Ah, yea we disabled the functionality that's not explicitly needed for the walk-through. As @tmcw suggests, "sign-up to enable this" would be much more helpful to all concerned than "forbidden". I'll fix that...

Using Google Chrome 17 on a Mac, I get "Permission Denied" on almost everything. If I drag "Mapper" or "Joiner" or "SetConverter" onto the main area, I get "Permission Denied".

My impression is that this app simply does not work. Also, its been 3 hours since you said you would fix the issue with "Permission Denied" but it is apparently still a problem.