Startup Weekend Pitch for Disco.js
Attention hackers and music fans everywhere!
This weekend I'll be attending Startup Weekend LA in Santa Monica and pitching an open source project. I know it's not a killer business model, but I'm looking to work with and learn from other javascript hackers for a couple days to see what we can accomplish in two days.
I'll do my best to post updates, but the idea is that anyone can watch our progress on github, and to have a live demo by Sunday.
Here's the pitch:
My name is Jeff Pelton and I'm a javascript hacker.
Being a coder and desk jockey like many of us, I spend a lot of time plugged into my music collection or the "radio". The problem is that I don't trust iTunes after losing my history in a system crash. The cloud should solve that and also be available online, but comes with unfortunate restrictions.
My plan for this weekend is to build an open source, web based, music player, and social radio. This may sound like a tall order, but we will have a working demo in two days and all of our work will happen on github for everyone to see.
If you're a javascript hacker or frontend designer who's interested in building a better music app and social radio, join team disco.js!
The technology stack of course is all javascript. Node.js, Mongodb, and Backbone.js are the weapons of choice. Obviously my goal is to meet and learn from hackers at the event, but this is also a chance for me to shamelessly plug my open source platform as a service framework that I'm putting together. It's just a bunch of open source components put together to provide a basic app development platform. The goal is to minimize your dev time on the server, so that you can focus on the application experience. This weekend gives me a chance to prove it can support a complex app like disco.js, and to get feedback from other developers and hopefully improve the architecture.
Now that I've reached this milestone, I'm really looking for feedback and support. If this is at all interesting to you, please don't hesitate to let me know!
This weekend I'll be attending Startup Weekend LA in Santa Monica and pitching an open source project. I know it's not a killer business model, but I'm looking to work with and learn from other javascript hackers for a couple days to see what we can accomplish in two days.
I'll do my best to post updates, but the idea is that anyone can watch our progress on github, and to have a live demo by Sunday.
Here's the pitch:
My name is Jeff Pelton and I'm a javascript hacker.
Being a coder and desk jockey like many of us, I spend a lot of time plugged into my music collection or the "radio". The problem is that I don't trust iTunes after losing my history in a system crash. The cloud should solve that and also be available online, but comes with unfortunate restrictions.
My plan for this weekend is to build an open source, web based, music player, and social radio. This may sound like a tall order, but we will have a working demo in two days and all of our work will happen on github for everyone to see.
If you're a javascript hacker or frontend designer who's interested in building a better music app and social radio, join team disco.js!
The technology stack of course is all javascript. Node.js, Mongodb, and Backbone.js are the weapons of choice. Obviously my goal is to meet and learn from hackers at the event, but this is also a chance for me to shamelessly plug my open source platform as a service framework that I'm putting together. It's just a bunch of open source components put together to provide a basic app development platform. The goal is to minimize your dev time on the server, so that you can focus on the application experience. This weekend gives me a chance to prove it can support a complex app like disco.js, and to get feedback from other developers and hopefully improve the architecture.
Now that I've reached this milestone, I'm really looking for feedback and support. If this is at all interesting to you, please don't hesitate to let me know!