Ask HN: Review My App (Simple Group Chat)

2 pointsrdvm16y ago6 comments

Hi. If it's not too much trouble, I'd like some feedback on a super simple AJAX chat app that I coded up in my spare time. It's called Yakeze.

I'm aware of the excellent Mibbit, but I was shooting for something even more simple. I also have what I think is a unique feature that puts people into the same room based on the HTTP referrer. That is, if you follow this link, you'll all end up in the same chatroom:

http://www.yakeze.com/chat/

Here are some other useful "tricks": http://www.yakeze.com/help/

Like I said, it's very simple by design, but please be honest with any criticism or ideas you may have. And feel free to use it too!

Thanks!

P.S. If anyone is interested, the back-end is powered by Google App Engine (Python).

6 comments

rdvmOP16y ago

Hmm - apparently links in the summary aren't automatically created. Here's the referrer link example again:

http://www.yakeze.com/chat/

elcron16y ago

Doesn't work for me in chrome. Although, I'm running the alpha for linux so that might have something to do with it. Has anybody tried it with chrome on windows?

rdvmOP16y ago

Bummer - not working for me in Chromium (OSX) any more either. Which is odd since I did about half the development with it. I'll get that fixed soon...

ErrantX16y ago

clicky link: http://www.yakeze.com/chat/

> puts people into the same room based on the HTTP referrer

That's a cool feature! Unique as you say.

It's a teeeeny bit slow for me but it could be this machine (it wont play youtube vids w/o locking up anything else)

rdvmOP16y ago

Good point. There is currently a 3 second update on the chat window. I'm interested to see how well App Engine scales on lots of little requests. I'll report back on that later...

rdvmOP16y ago

Good news - App Engine scales to support ones of users.

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Ask HN: Review My App (Simple Group Chat)

2 pointsrdvm16y ago6 comments

Hi. If it's not too much trouble, I'd like some feedback on a super simple AJAX chat app that I coded up in my spare time. It's called Yakeze.

http://www.yakeze.com/chat/

Here are some other useful "tricks": http://www.yakeze.com/help/

Like I said, it's very simple by design, but please be honest with any criticism or ideas you may have. And feel free to use it too!

Thanks!

P.S. If anyone is interested, the back-end is powered by Google App Engine (Python).

6 comments

rdvmOP16y ago

Hmm - apparently links in the summary aren't automatically created. Here's the referrer link example again:

http://www.yakeze.com/chat/

elcron16y ago

Doesn't work for me in chrome. Although, I'm running the alpha for linux so that might have something to do with it. Has anybody tried it with chrome on windows?

rdvmOP16y ago

Bummer - not working for me in Chromium (OSX) any more either. Which is odd since I did about half the development with it. I'll get that fixed soon...

ErrantX16y ago

clicky link: http://www.yakeze.com/chat/

> puts people into the same room based on the HTTP referrer

That's a cool feature! Unique as you say.

It's a teeeeny bit slow for me but it could be this machine (it wont play youtube vids w/o locking up anything else)

rdvmOP16y ago

Good point. There is currently a 3 second update on the chat window. I'm interested to see how well App Engine scales on lots of little requests. I'll report back on that later...

rdvmOP16y ago

Good news - App Engine scales to support ones of users.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse