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Reverse Engineering the 100% AJAX Vuzit Document Viewer

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Re: Reverse Engineering the 100% AJAX Vuzit Document Viewer

#11

Post by ajju »

cera wrote: post #10
ajju wrote: post #9

I have nothing against this company but 4 of the 6 comments on this story are by accounts created minutes ago and the other two are by accounts who don't have comments on any other story. The story itself is not really clear on what the value of this thing is.

Hi ajju, I wrote the blog post, posted to HN, and then sent out a tweet to my friends which might explain some of the new users. I recognize a couple of the commenters, and FWIW they are entrepreneurs that have technology companies. Here is the tweet: http://twitter.com/chriscera/status/1527260033 The purpose of the article is to point out that the core of the Vuzit viewer is our reliance on web services. Another top…

Hey Chris,

Vuzit itself looks like a useful service. What I am not clear on is what value someone would get from writing their own viewer to embed in their website when that seems to be the hardest task they would be "outsourcing" by using your service. Is it to customize the look and feel (possibly by using a technology like Flash as you suggested)?

It's great that you guys have an API. I'll take a look at it when I need to embed docs on a web page.

Re: Reverse Engineering the 100% AJAX Vuzit Document Viewer

#12

Post by boundlessdreamz »

cera wrote: post #10
ajju wrote: post #9

I have nothing against this company but 4 of the 6 comments on this story are by accounts created minutes ago and the other two are by accounts who don't have comments on any other story. The story itself is not really clear on what the value of this thing is.

Hi ajju, I wrote the blog post, posted to HN, and then sent out a tweet to my friends which might explain some of the new users. I recognize a couple of the commenters, and FWIW they are entrepreneurs that have technology companies. Here is the tweet: http://twitter.com/chriscera/status/1527260033 The purpose of the article is to point out that the core of the Vuzit viewer is our reliance on web services. Another top…

Have a hard time believing you. The tweet was 39 minutes ago (as of now) but all the comments were made much before that.

The topic was interesting to an extent, but you could have avoided the spammy comments.

Re: Reverse Engineering the 100% AJAX Vuzit Document Viewer

#13

Post by cera »

ajju wrote: post #11
cera wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi ajju, I wrote the blog post, posted to HN, and then sent out a tweet to my friends which might explain some of the new users. I recognize a couple of the commenters, and FWIW they are entrepreneurs that have technology companies. Here is the tweet: http://twitter.com/chriscera/status/1527260033 The purpose of the article is to point out that the core of the Vuzit viewer is our reliance on web services. Another top…

Hey Chris, Vuzit itself looks like a useful service. What I am not clear on is what value someone would get from writing their own viewer to embed in their website when that seems to be the hardest task they would be "outsourcing" by using your service. Is it to customize the look and feel (possibly by using a technology like Flash as you suggested)? It's great that you guys have an API. I'll take a look at it when I…

Hi ajju,

Thanks for the explanation. You're correct about outsourcing, and this is the #1 reason why we have customers :)

We often get requests to build something specific for a mobile device, customized skins/toolbars, annotation tools, exporting forms, etc. It's impossible for us to do everything, so we changed things around a bit to allow others to build their own interfaces on top of our own.

We will continue to enhance our viewer for our core audience, and we will focus on areas that we believe we can deliver the most value.

I'm hopeful that with our new approach, it will empower other products and services to use 90% of what we have built and add the last 10% themselves.

I hope that clears it up, and thanks for the feedback. -Chris

Re: Reverse Engineering the 100% AJAX Vuzit Document Viewer

#14

Post by jhancock »

cera wrote: post #10
ajju wrote: post #9

I have nothing against this company but 4 of the 6 comments on this story are by accounts created minutes ago and the other two are by accounts who don't have comments on any other story. The story itself is not really clear on what the value of this thing is.

Hi ajju, I wrote the blog post, posted to HN, and then sent out a tweet to my friends which might explain some of the new users. I recognize a couple of the commenters, and FWIW they are entrepreneurs that have technology companies. Here is the tweet: http://twitter.com/chriscera/status/1527260033 The purpose of the article is to point out that the core of the Vuzit viewer is our reliance on web services. Another top…

I would be interested in using this tech, but want the full server tech and docs on my own server. Is this something you license?...or it your SaaS only?

Re: Reverse Engineering the 100% AJAX Vuzit Document Viewer

#17

Post by cera »

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #12
cera wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi ajju, I wrote the blog post, posted to HN, and then sent out a tweet to my friends which might explain some of the new users. I recognize a couple of the commenters, and FWIW they are entrepreneurs that have technology companies. Here is the tweet: http://twitter.com/chriscera/status/1527260033 The purpose of the article is to point out that the core of the Vuzit viewer is our reliance on web services. Another top…

Have a hard time believing you. The tweet was 39 minutes ago (as of now) but all the comments were made much before that. The topic was interesting to an extent, but you could have avoided the spammy comments.

I did send an email to some friends as well (before the tweet).

In any case, it seems like this got killed from the HN homepage. Can one of the admins tell me what was the primary reason?

I did NOT create any bogus accounts, bogus comments, etc. The only people from vuzit that voted on this post were myself and bmatzelle.

Best, -Chris

Re: Reverse Engineering the 100% AJAX Vuzit Document Viewer

#18

Post by tptacek »

cera wrote: post #17
boundlessdreamz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have a hard time believing you. The tweet was 39 minutes ago (as of now) but all the comments were made much before that. The topic was interesting to an extent, but you could have avoided the spammy comments.

I did send an email to some friends as well (before the tweet). In any case, it seems like this got killed from the HN homepage. Can one of the admins tell me what was the primary reason? I did NOT create any bogus accounts, bogus comments, etc. The only people from vuzit that voted on this post were myself and bmatzelle. Best, -Chris

Even without the comments, this story doesn't seem to clear the bar for "interesting to hackers in general". You may have better luck promoting your story on www.reddit.com/r/programming
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