nmeyer
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Comment · 5 years ago
You may want to talk to the Infinite Cooling team out of MIT too. They do water reclamation on top of cooling towers to reduce water usage. Could be a nice channel partnership between you all! Happy to make the connect.
Comment · 6 years ago
Anyone know how it works? Does it create a virtual camera source that Zoom can source from?
Comment · 14 years ago
We do something similar for our Explore feature on MileWise, just our deals include prices in reward points. We compare current prices to historical trends to figure out if a price is a "good" option. I like Hipmunk's idea of Subscribing to specific deal feeds.
Would love feedback: http://milewise.com/mw#explore
Comment · 14 years ago
We use node+express for everything at MileWise. I put together a starter project for quickly bootstrapping new projects that's ready to go using our favorite set of tools:
Expres, Jade, Stylus+Bootstrap-Stylus, Passport (for auth), Mongode (MongoDb-native wrapper)
Maybe it'll help you get started! It's ready to be deployed to heroku or node-jitsu etc. And I use mongohq for new projects until they get bigger.
EDIT: link... https://github.com/milewise/sideproject
Comment · 14 years ago
We actually built the app using Appcelerator Titanium. We modified Backbone to work with Titanium's API, and were able to reuse pretty much all the Models we wrote for our web app.
If anyone's interested, I'm thinking about writing a dev post about our experience. Definite Pros and Cons, but the TL;DR is:
There's pretty much no way we would have been able to do what we did in 2 months if we had started from scratch in Obj-C.
Comment · 14 years ago
So while we don't have a way explore flights based on say, earn maximum miles per dollar, we do sort by what ee call WisePrice - which actually does factor in the "kickback" you get from miles earned on the flight. We include any elite status or cabin class bonuses too -- and you can value miles at any rate you'd like in your preferences.
Comment · 15 years ago
Thanks for all the feedback from our dev post on the blog guys. TechCrunch picked us up a couple days later!
Comment · 15 years ago
Very clean site design, and UI looks gorgeous. Awesome job!
May want to think about putting the qualifier inside the call to action:
Buy now for $9 (try risk-free for 30 days)
Then below the CTA put "If you're not absolutely happy..."
Alleviate their worries as in-context as possible.
Congrats on shipping! Baller.
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