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Re: Show HN: Simperium, a realtime data layer

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I have no idea what this does from reading the homepage. You need use cases for where your product shines.

You should watch the video. They give concrete examples and code demos that are pretty compelling.

The Zelda-like game running across three screens separately and independently in the same game space was particularly inspiring.

Re: Show HN: Simperium, a realtime data layer

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Simperium dev here. We're launching our beta to gather feedback. Let us know what you think.

Jaw-dropping.

Perhaps it's too late to predict that 2012 will be the year of realtime interaction, but between this, Meteor, Firebase, etc., not only are all the tools converging in that direction, but they all appear to be drop-dead easy to use.

Thank you for this. Is there an IRC channel or Google Group for questions?

Re: Show HN: Simperium, a realtime data layer

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Simperium dev here. We're launching our beta to gather feedback. Let us know what you think.

Jaw-dropping. Perhaps it's too late to predict that 2012 will be the year of realtime interaction, but between this, Meteor, Firebase, etc., not only are all the tools converging in that direction, but they all appear to be drop-dead easy to use. Thank you for this. Is there an IRC channel or Google Group for questions?

Thanks, really happy to hear it. We have a hipchat room (http://www.hipchat.com/gNs0OdqVJ) and a Simperium tag at StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/tags/simperium/).

You can also reach us at contact@simperium.com.

Re: Show HN: Simperium, a realtime data layer

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This one is the best so far:

1. Works with any JavaScript library

2. You can write server-side logic

3. Operational Transformation baked in

Seriously I cannot find anything bad about this project. (I really wanted to.)

My questions:

1. Is the server side written in Python?

2. Is there offline support for JavaScript apps too?

(I tried this with my own library and I think it was a wrong direction -- it only made it more complicated than it should be)

3. How about relationships in JavaScript objects? How does that work? (I suppose it's all automatic in Core Data objects, but how about JavaScript?)

Thanks!

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