Right now the layouting is pretty basic. So data will only fit within the width/height you 'draw' on the template. We are working on a dynamic layouting engine which will be able to automatically paginate tables cleanly, but its not rolled out yet.
Thanks! As of now this support is not available but we would definitely look into it. For now only our 'native' charts are available which can be populated with data as well (including bar, stacked, pie.. etc).
Also if you have an image url, that could work too.
We just launched our alpha (and are sending out invites to people who sign up). We want to validate our value proposition so any feedback/suggestion is very much appreciated!
True, but making a NY Times-like website for tech news wouldn't work either. HN works for techies because its clean and simple, and the karma/upvote mechanism keep the content relevant. So there is a difference from NY Times.
I never said it claims to be better and it isn't. Let me rephrase the question: why would anyone want to be on echojs instead of HN, given that it's essentially an HN clone for JS and HN community is bigger at the moment? Why would you use it?
I am just trying to understand its value for myself.
I don't have any counter-evidence to show if the incubator trend is a bubble or not so I am not going to argue along those lines.
I have a very different perspective to offer. I live in Pakistan where there is an energy crisis so serious we don't have electric power half the day. It is in these challenging conditions that we are trying to establish ourselves as a tech startup. Perhaps this is not such an issue in SV but incubators can play a very crucial role in places where the conditions are not so ideal .
For example the incubator we have here, apart from providing seed money and mentoring, provides 24/7 power supply, connects us with businesses abroad (huge benefit, because no one wants to do business with a Pakistani startup, right?), is trying to get some foreign investors on board, etc. In effect, an ecosystem is being built and I dont see how it could have been possible without an incubator at its center.
Perhaps in SV these things dont even matter but they can be the difference between survival and failure in lesser developed ecosystems.
Not implying that one language is better than the other, but how does Lua help solve problems that web developers face? I say this because I have been working on a "killer" web app (JS intensive) for the past few months and it has been a real pain but I dont see how Lua could have helped either.
We, as entrepreneurs, are so obsessed with creating the next "photo sharing app" when there are some real, hard problems to be solved. Maybe its the daily dose of blogs incessantly hyping over such ideas, but we might just have lost sight of the big picture. I speak for myself, but entrepreneurship should be about more than just this.