Making of Aprilzero • Hacker News Board

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by josephpmay » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

icantthinkofone wrote: post #29

markgarity wrote: post #27

Anand, you have SERIOUSLY outdone yourself on this one. I continue to aspire to attain frontend design chops as good as yours. I remember watching Iron Man with this guy in his apartment in LA while trying to convince him to move to SF. He took meticulous sketches and notes on the UI used in the film. I look at this, especially the initial circular ui, and see the culmination of those notes with amazing use of fronte…

So you can answer the question. Who is Anand Sharma?

not op, but Anand was previously the head of design at Quizlet (a top ed-tech startup).

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

icantthinkofone wrote: post #29

markgarity wrote: post #27

Anand, you have SERIOUSLY outdone yourself on this one. I continue to aspire to attain frontend design chops as good as yours. I remember watching Iron Man with this guy in his apartment in LA while trying to convince him to move to SF. He took meticulous sketches and notes on the UI used in the film. I look at this, especially the initial circular ui, and see the culmination of those notes with amazing use of fronte…

So you can answer the question. Who is Anand Sharma?

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Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by exacube » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 2:00 AM UTC

Jonovono wrote: post #50

Dude!! Where is your Narrative clip? http://getnarrative.com/

You have to pay a subscription just to get your photos out of the clip!? I like the idea of the clip, but what a huge dealbreaker

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by Jonovono » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 2:09 AM UTC

exacube wrote: post #53

Jonovono wrote: post #50

Dude!! Where is your Narrative clip? http://getnarrative.com/

You have to pay a subscription just to get your photos out of the clip!? I like the idea of the clip, but what a huge dealbreaker

hmm, as far as I know you just pay the $10 a year if you want to have your photos stored on the cloud, but if you are willing to store all them yourself you can do that. But i'll double check that!

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 2:13 AM UTC

nilved wrote: post #39

majurg wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure JS is the brunt of the visualizations, etc.

Definitely, but a well-made site will degrade gracefully. I digress though, because I'm okay with turning on JavaScript; the issue is that the page still doesn't react to scrolling.

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Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by vpj » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 2:53 AM UTC

joshdance wrote: post #16

dschwartz88 wrote: post #6

I realize that this took a huge amount of time, so asking for an open source version of this might be asking a bit much. But, I would absolutely be willing to pay for a SaaS product, or a licensing fee for the code. It's absolutely beautiful, and as someone who does this in a gross spreadsheet, moving to something like this would be unbelievable.

Considering most people are casual observers 3 comments about paying for this is a positive signal. vpj should just throw up a landing page asking for money and start building. :)

I am not the designer, I just shared the link.

Author: https://twitter.com/aprilzero

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 3:08 AM UTC

icantthinkofone wrote: post #29

markgarity wrote: post #27

Anand, you have SERIOUSLY outdone yourself on this one. I continue to aspire to attain frontend design chops as good as yours. I remember watching Iron Man with this guy in his apartment in LA while trying to convince him to move to SF. He took meticulous sketches and notes on the UI used in the film. I look at this, especially the initial circular ui, and see the culmination of those notes with amazing use of fronte…

So you can answer the question. Who is Anand Sharma?

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Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by jjsz » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 3:39 AM UTC

According to the previous discussion, he used, ignoring analytics and APIs: js (coffeescript), leaflet, d3 (mercator projection), jQuery, SASS, mapbox, jquery-pjax, python (django), individual animated state transitions with css, and webkit transitions.

This is on another level. What extra resources on the side would one recommend following IDV for the Web [1], to close the gap?

[1] http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.ht...

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 4:43 AM UTC

radicality wrote: post #41

skizm wrote: post #11

Wow, what do you do for a living that you can travel so much?

He also travels business/first and stays in 5* hotels (clicked something on the Explore tab). My guess is some kind of previous startup that sold well? Maybe his roommate can fill us in.

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Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by PStamatiou » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 4:45 AM UTC

radicality wrote: post #41

skizm wrote: post #11

Wow, what do you do for a living that you can travel so much?

He also travels business/first and stays in 5* hotels (clicked something on the Explore tab). My guess is some kind of previous startup that sold well? Maybe his roommate can fill us in.

Had a well paying job for several years and lots of freelancing before that, has roommates so his rent is not absurd so he can afford the great opportunity to travel a lot. :)