Ask YC: Review my Website, Being Served from My Laptop Right Now - dev.trailbehind.com

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by andrewljohnson • 18 years ago

11 17 18 years ago

dev.trailbehind.com

r00k• 18 years ago

It'd be nice to hint about what you're offering before having to enter a zip.

andrewljohnson8• 18 years ago

When does it ask for a zip code?

lacker• 18 years ago

In the search box when you first load the home page.

bdotdub• 18 years ago

I agree. There should be something indicating what this thing is, if nothing else a tag line that hints at what it is. I'm still not entirely sure what this is supposed to do.

hedgehog• 18 years ago

It looks like your site might be useful for planning hikes and such except that I can't figure out how to get it to work. I think it's probably about 50% that I don't know how it works and 50% that the UI needs some polish, but besides that trailbehind looks like a good idea.

andrewljohnson8• 18 years ago

This is roughly what we are going to launch tomorrow. The current site is at: www.trailbehind.com

mountain_man• 18 years ago

This is awesome. Is that usgs data? Best representation of way points I've seen yet.

andrewljohnson8• 18 years ago

Yeah, the site includes a list of millions of USGS waypoints, along with other data we have collected.

okeumeni• 18 years ago

It'll be nice that you deploy it somewhere with better bandwidth at this time it’s hard to try it.

andrewljohnson8• 18 years ago

Yeah, right now it's running off of Django's dev server, forwarding a port on my laptop through an SSH tunnel to my production server. So it's a little slow :)

I'm surprised it hasn't crashed under all of this traffic actually, since Django's dev server isn't threadsafe.

whatusername• 18 years ago

How about an Australian version. plese ==> looks great!

andrewljohnson8• 18 years ago

We'll be uploading some aussie data this month, if not this week.

Ask YC: Review my Website, Being Served from My Laptop Right Now - dev.trailbehind.com

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