Anvil - a Mac app for Pow • Hacker News Board

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#41

Post by kposehn » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 7:21 PM UTC

Love it.

It really is a simple, elegant way to handle pow - I would pay for this happily.

Put up a donate link via Stripe and I will :)

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#42

Post by marcomonteiro » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 7:23 PM UTC

I really like the simple UI to this. Great work! Just curious what the future plans of this project are. Any plans of open sourcing it?

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#43

Post by mossity » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 7:30 PM UTC

shabble wrote: post #40

Never heard of Pow before, but on inspection it looks very interesting and could save a bunch of time. Anyone know if there's any way to make it work with python (WSGI or similar) services? It's kinda hard to search 'pow' without ending up at various exponentiation functions :/

Looks like it should be possible: http://pow.cx/manual.html#section_2.1.4

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#44

Post by shabble » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 8:27 PM UTC

mossity wrote: post #43

shabble wrote: post #40

Never heard of Pow before, but on inspection it looks very interesting and could save a bunch of time. Anyone know if there's any way to make it work with python (WSGI or similar) services? It's kinda hard to search 'pow' without ending up at various exponentiation functions :/

Looks like it should be possible: http://pow.cx/manual.html#section_2.1.4

I totally missed that, thanks. Tested and working now.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#45

Post by b2rock » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 9:15 PM UTC

dorian-graph wrote: post #26

Axsuul wrote: post #9

We need something like this for vagrant.

That is exactly what I thought as well.

wouldn't that be nice.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#46

Post by francov88 » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 9:21 PM UTC

pretty cool app - seems to work really well. Thanks Anvil!

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#47

Post by elliottkember » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 9:54 PM UTC

sudhirj wrote: post #29

I love the app already :D Little bits of feedback: * The Anvil icon on the menu bar doesn't show itself as being active when I click it. * When I click on the + to add a new app, make anvil lose focus to the file dialog. * The "About Anvil" dialog insists on hiding behind all other windows.

The first point is a menu bar app thing. Seems weird to activate it for a popover type window. The other two are fixed in the latest update. Thanks for the feedback! <3

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#48

Post by elliottkember » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 9:55 PM UTC

kposehn wrote: post #41

Love it. It really is a simple, elegant way to handle pow - I would pay for this happily. Put up a donate link via Stripe and I will :)

We're in the UK so it might have to be PayPal for now :( but we might do that at some point once we've fixed all the bugs!

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#49

Post by ignar » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 10:39 PM UTC

Oh-e It's just works. Perfect. Thank you

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#50

Post by kurige » Sat, Oct 06, 2012, 11:44 PM UTC

pkamb wrote: post #39

ryantownsend wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious as to whether you can submit an app to the MAS which integrates with non-MAS apps? Any idea whether Apple allows that? e.g. so you could offload any frowned-upon functionality into external apps/services, and maybe promote or offer automated download & install functionality within your own app...

> 2.16 Apps that download or install additional code or resources to add functionality or change their primary purpose will be rejected

I've wondered how certain programs get around these restrictions. I use Boom[1] on my ridiculously quiet laptop. The program you download from MAS is more or less a shell. It guides you to download and install the actual sound drivers that do all the work.

[1]: http://www.globaldelight.com/boom/