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Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub

#33

Post by mydigitalself »

markrickert wrote: post #28

Error: failed to fetch user profile (status: 403 data: {"message":"Maximum number of login attempts exceeded","documentation_url":" http://developer.github.com/v3"} ) at Strategy.userProfile (/opt/gitter/landing-app/node_modules/passport-github/lib/passport-github/strategy.js:90:28) at passBackControl (/opt/gitter/landing-app/node_modules/passport-github/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth2.js:10…

Yes, node node node! :)

Um, thanks for pointing this out, will take a look at it, we may have blown through the rate limit.

Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub

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Post by naiquevin »

Just tried signing up with github and got the message -

"Gitter isn't ready yet. If we get enough support, we will launch this in a few months. Help spread the word by Tweeting about us and follow @GitChat for updates."

From the other comments here, it looks like people are able to try out a demo or something. What am I missing?

Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub

#36

Post by mydigitalself »

nnd wrote: post #30

The landing page looks really slick. I was wondering, how did you create the design for it? I'm a programmer and my web design skills are limited to installing bootstrap, and I'm always fascinated, how would you come up with right color/font/layout matching

Hi. Thanks so much.

I do everything "in the browser" these days. No Photoshop, just straight HTML/CSS/JS in Sublime Text. That way the site starts to feel alive pretty quickly and then I just tweak stuff around until I'm happy with it.

Colours... Sometimes I use http://flatuicolors.com/ as a starting point and then tweak it from there.

Also keep looking around at stuff on Dribble/Behance/Pinterest for inspiration. Some good guys to follow on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/robklaiss/uiux/ http://www.pinterest.com/alexhyett/ui-ux-inspiration/ http://www.pinterest.com/wkk711/mobile-ui-ux/

Hope that's helpful.

Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub

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Post by mydigitalself »

naiquevin wrote: post #35

Just tried signing up with github and got the message - "Gitter isn't ready yet. If we get enough support, we will launch this in a few months. Help spread the word by Tweeting about us and follow @GitChat for updates." From the other comments here, it looks like people are able to try out a demo or something. What am I missing?

Hi. No it's purely testing a concept. Lean product development process in full swing.

We tried to make that clear in the text above the signup button, sorry if we mislead you that wasn't the intention.

We're trying to gauge interest before investing heavily in the product.

Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub

#38

Post by trevorah »

JamesAdir wrote: post #31

Great work! Could you share about what stack/technologies used to build it? Trying to learn how to choose the best platform for each solution.

At the moment we have node + express + faye for rest api/streaming. The web front end is currently built with backbone, less and a sprinkling of bootstrap.

Re: Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub

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Post by suprememoocow »

stigi wrote: post #34

One question: After signing up for Gitter I checked out Trou.pe. But even without signing up for Trou.pe it already knew my gravatar & was able to suggest me usernames (including my full name) when going to http://trou.pe . How's that possible?

When you perform the OAuth signup via GitHub, GitHub provides us with your name username, etc. Then, if you click the link to signup with Troupe, we create a Troupe account for you, pre-populated with your details, so that you don't need to enter them again.

Hope this helps!

(I'm one of the devs)

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