Show HN: Working on my wife's idea • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

#41

Post by IanDrake » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 9:52 PM UTC

I just added a blog post about getting to the front page of HN and some of the initial problems.

http://puppyshowdown.com/blog/2012/04/hacker-news-caught-me-...

Thank you everyone for the great feedback!

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

#42

Post by udp » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 9:54 PM UTC

IanDrake wrote: post #12

Oh, if anyone cares: The site was built with jQuery and Knockoutjs with ASP.NET web service backend. The push updates come from a ASP.NET module I'm working on and will open source soon. The design was done by a fantastic designer JR Harrell from Drawnn.

I'm curious - what made you go with ASP.NET over an open source alternative?

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by rbxbx » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 10:07 PM UTC

So it's "Hot or Not" for puppies?

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by bosie » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 10:19 PM UTC

IanDrake wrote: post #14

pud wrote: post #11

I'm on a slow-ish Wifi connection at the airport. It's fast enough for YouTube streaming but not for your site. So far on your site I'm looking at an ad with two things that say "Loading..." underneath. Using Chrome on MacBook.

What you're seeing is what happens when all the active matches have been voted on and are over. The client is basically waiting for more contests to be created. Yeah, didn't expect front page of HN. The contests are typically first dog to get 5 votes wins, but there are like 500 people connected at once right now. I just changed that to 50, so now each contest should last longer and solve the problem...I hope.

No, i have the same problem.

edit: i was able to vote now on a few dogs and i see nothing, not even a frame between the two horizontal dark loading-bars.

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by ianterrell » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 11:02 PM UTC

My wife was sitting beside me when I clicked on it. The site elicited instant "awwwws" and a quick memorization of the domain to submit our pup.

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by Kiro » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 11:36 PM UTC

rbxbx wrote: post #43

So it's "Hot or Not" for puppies?

More like Facemash for puppies.

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by IanDrake » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 12:03 AM UTC

udp wrote: post #42

IanDrake wrote: post #12

Oh, if anyone cares: The site was built with jQuery and Knockoutjs with ASP.NET web service backend. The push updates come from a ASP.NET module I'm working on and will open source soon. The design was done by a fantastic designer JR Harrell from Drawnn.

I'm curious - what made you go with ASP.NET over an open source alternative?

It's what I know from consulting. The bizspark program is great to get started and lasts for three years or 1mil of revenue, whichever comes first.

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by botolo » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 3:15 AM UTC

Argh, I want to vote puppies but I see "loading" :-( Me want puppies!

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by IanDrake » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 4:03 AM UTC

Sorry if you guys were getting a message saying we were out of contests again. I think there's a bug in the component that creates the matches and I was on the road and couldn't fix it.

I quick reset fixed it, but suspect I missed a lock somewhere in that part of the code :(

Re: Show HN: Working on my wife's idea

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Post by hellerbarde » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 8:03 AM UTC

I just voted on Sheldon vs Priya. "The Big Bang Theory" flashback ^^