Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#1

Post by benblair » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:12 PM UTC

Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works
api.cerrio.com

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#2

Post by tmcw » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:27 PM UTC

I'm getting a lot of 'permission denied' alerts trying to do anything. Even if that's the case, typically apps try to volley that into a 'Sign up now!' instead of the negative.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#3

Post by vineet » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:28 PM UTC

Looks very interesting, but way too much to read.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#4

Post by tluyben2 » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:38 PM UTC

Maybe you should make a TL;DR how it works; I have not ran into much applications in my life I couldn't do anything with without rtfm.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#5

Post by mrchess » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:38 PM UTC

Making a short video should be essential for something like this.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#6

Post by kenrikm » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:39 PM UTC

tmcw wrote: post #2

I'm getting a lot of 'permission denied' alerts trying to do anything. Even if that's the case, typically apps try to volley that into a 'Sign up now!' instead of the negative.

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".

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#7

Post by benblair » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:42 PM UTC

mrchess wrote: post #5

Making a short video should be essential for something like this.

We've got a short video at http://cerrio.com/. It's pretty rough, but will give you a little more context if you're interested.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#8

Post by hobonumber1 » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:47 PM UTC

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

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#9

Post by johnnyg » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:48 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Like Yahoo Pipes, but works

#10

Post by benblair » Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 9:49 PM UTC

kenrikm wrote: post #6

tmcw wrote: post #2

I'm getting a lot of 'permission denied' alerts trying to do anything. Even if that's the case, typically apps try to volley that into a 'Sign up now!' instead of the negative.

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...