Hey @jenandre, I'm one of the founders of CodePicnic.
This is pretty awesome! Would love to chat some time. We're thinking about open sourcing some extra stuff (since we've built our own in OSS as well) and would be greatly interested in your take on that.
Let me know if I can reach you or ping me (alvaro AT codepicnic DOT com).
We are CodePicnic (codepicnic.com), a platform for sharing, running and showcasing code through a browser. We help people and business improve their demos, APIs documentation, or anything that needs for their users to run and try some code online.
We'd love to improve our "getting there" process. We've been interacting with users here in Hacker News, Reddit, Product Hunt and other sites, and getting better and increasing our usage, but still we feel is not enough right now. Our first users love us, the service and the potential, but perhaps there's something glaring we aren't doing well in order to be more well known. Is a long process, we get it, but the more we learn, the better.
I also believe this is an important matter that many other startups would love to learn about.
We've been working hard on that one. One of our servers failed but it's behaving fine again. Really, really sorry about that, but take a look whenever you can!
So, that has fun (or not). Should be working fine again now. Really sorry about that, we're under heavy load but doing our best to keep things running.
We've been exploring this kind of scenarios at [http://codepicnic.com], where you can create your tutorial and then run some sort of test to see if it's running (perhaps returning non-zero values from some script or testing the existence of some files) but so far we think most of the attempts are a bit clumsy and would lead to false positives.
It was born as a jQuery plugin for a couple of projects we had to use Google Maps and that incidentally used jQuery as well, so it made sense.
We aren't totally sure it will move forward as an independent Javascript library but it's certainly a turn it could have. We are rewriting it with Coffeescript now, so maybe is something to consider more closely.
I does not. You have access to a, albeit limited, number of requests to to Geolocating, Geo-referencing and others. Should be no problem for a personal or small project.
This is pretty awesome! Would love to chat some time. We're thinking about open sourcing some extra stuff (since we've built our own in OSS as well) and would be greatly interested in your take on that.
Let me know if I can reach you or ping me (alvaro AT codepicnic DOT com).
Awesome work!