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feedme.io
feedme.io
by Sincerely
Feedme.io is a real-time view of your company’s most important events as they happen. It provides a real-time stream of events so that everyone from developers to salespeople can keep up to date on important information.
Judging Instructions
Head over to http://feedme.io. You will need to create an account for your company by hitting the Get Started button. After logging in, you will need to add some services in order to start receiving real time updates. We support GitHub, twitter, pingdom, rss, and you can shout out as well. To add modules head to http://yourdomainhere.feedme.io/modules.
Who
rickharrison — San Francisco, CA
scottagarman — State College, PA
pws5068
plusbryan — San Francisco, CA
How
The main modules we used are socket.io and express. Socket.io helped build the base for our real time event system. The backend is powered by mongodb and mongoose.
npm modules used: socket.io, connect, connect-mongodb, ejs, express, mongodb, mongoose, node-mongodb-native
Since our application is service based, we used the GitHub, twitter, and pingdom apis to pull in user information as they request it.
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therazorbladejudgeCoreh
contestantI can really see this being useful for a medium sized organization, where it starts to get hard to track what’s going on.
For a large sized organization, however, I think something more sophisticated in terms of filtering might be necessary. (So the company can be divided in departments or projects)
Having a screenshot of the inner pages of the tool on the home page, and a welcome wizard to better explain how to use it would come in handy.
Looking forward to integration with more services.
jenwilhelm
contestantLooks good guys! Very clean design and easy to navigate.
My only suggestion would be to add some sort of + or – icon to the filters, I was a little confused about what was actually happening when I clicked them.
Any plans to add more modules?
geradjudgeWell executed, and very polished.
Design is gorgeous, but minus a point because some of the flows are confusing (for instance why is the url for the GitHub post commit hook tiny, and not the correct url for my subdomain). Also why ask for the repo name and username at all if you’re already getting a post commit message (which contains it)?
Finally, this feels like it’s missing something. I can create a feed, but what am I supposed to do with it. It’s unclear how I can share it, and even what value there is with sharing it. Why would I do it? Answer that, and you’ve got something special. The killer feature still isn’t there, but you’ve got a great foundation to build on. I look forward to seeing where you take it.
visnupjudgemixed on all points:
utility – mixing up sources of information like post-receive hooks, the pingdom api, and twitter I would find only marginally useful. ingesting them and exposing them in your own design is ok, but admittedly designed for you. why not give me a second aggregated RSS feed then so I can tweak the flow how I want?
design – visually, looks great. interaction, I ran into several glaring issues: when I create an account, I’m not immediately logged in. instead you make me give you an email and password, then ask me what email and password I just gave you. secondly, on that form that you ask me to login at, hitting enter to submit doesn’t work: I have to click the login button (I think this is what ekryski below ran into). I almost went away at this point and only absentmindedly tried to click the login button and was surprised the form worked.
innovation – this has been done by engineers ever since (and before) RSS was invented. yahoo pipes comes to mind.
completeness – rss works. twitter does not. github was delayed. pingdom, I feel uncomfortable giving you a password to.
ekryskijudgeI can’t log in to try out your app :–(. Also I could create multiple accounts with the same email address. The only error that was caught was reusing the sub domain. I like the css though :–).
henrikberggrenjudgeI like the idea of an aggregated stream from your company. The question is how it relates to Yammer etc. The design is really nice and so is UI. But no real killer feature, yet.
joehitchensjudgeLooked ok. Didn’t seem to actually work when i added a github repo. didn’t see the commit.
astro
contestantThis is a personal feed aggregator. Nothing new but well executed.
phillyqueso
contestant
At its core this is a feed aggregater with manual entry option (shoutout). The interface is pretty but can use some streamlining, especially in consolidating all the information and setup to a single page. I tested it out over 5 minutes but it didn’t pull my tweets. This would be more useful if instead of web display, you pushed the consolidated company feed to another feed or twitter account for easier consumption.