timthimmaiah

More info on their status page https://status.stripe.com/

Not sure if this headline is 100% accurate. oAuth for apps that have already passed Login Submission is still functioning. For example, new users to an app that is already in the FB app ecosystem can still create accounts via oAuth.

However, apps that request scopes like "user_friends" or "pages_messaging" [1] may error out during authentication.

[1] https://messenger.fb.com/newsroom/messenger-platform-changes...

For Hipchat users, here's a fork of this I made: https://github.com/tim-thimmaiah/make-it-rain

ToneDen | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE | Frontend Engineer | https://www.toneden.io

ToneDen is a platform to connect artists directly to their fans online. Today we help over 120k creators grow their audiences. We've built technology for thousands of establishments in the music industry to understand and better reach their fans. We're helping millions of fans stay connected with the artists they love.

We're an engineering focused team out of UC Berkeley that has a diverse background from informatics to big data. We've just recently raised a size-able seed round and found ourselves in a beautiful office right in downtown Berkeley. Our investors include notable angels, two leading seed funds, and Stanford University.

Our stack is JS front to back. We run Node on the backend and React/Flux on the frontend. We build fast, release features every week, and love giving stuff back to the community through open source projects like our player (https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk).

We'd love to talk to you if you share a love for music, get excited about working with cutting-edge web tech (WebPack, React, Flux, etc.), and want to design and build something that millions love to use every day.

You can shoot me an email at tim@toneden.io or DM me @thingsinmotion!

Just noticed that this URL will get flagged/blocked by network admin content filters ;)

I've done a lot of work on this @ https://www.teselagen.com/

More specifically, we are able to automate combinatorial gene assembly straight from a web app interfacing with a TECAN microfluidic liquid handling robot.

Here's a proof of concept with a simulator, but I've tested this in a live enviornment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWA1O0DHEh8

Pretty cool site man. We launched an customizable SoundCloud player that could fit in pretty nicely here. We even have a player skin that would match your color scheme :)

Check it out at https://www.toneden.io/player. The repo is at https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk.

Just hit me up if you want some help integrating it.

Yeah...optimization is definitely in our pipeline.

Absolutely. Hit me up at tim@toneden.io and I'll show you how.

Eventually we want to be agnostic to any streaming service out there today. Right now, we believe SoundCloud is doing streaming the best by allowing people to easily publish and share their music. However, we have plans on implementing support for tracks from other sources like Bandcamp, Mixcloud, and YouTube.

Functionality for including tracks locally on the server is there also, but we need to modify the API for this a little.

The track streaming is openly accessible but there are some rules arround attribution which are required: http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/buttons-logos

Got it. We will be implementing volume control. Look for it in the next couple of days :)

I appreciate your opinion and I think it's very valid. Again, expect an interface for volume control to the player in the next day or so.

Good to know. I'll find a Linux box to test this on. Thanks for the info.

This is not evident on our demo but we've engineered the ability for you to get waveform data and visualize that as you like. Right now we visualize equalizer data but it would be trivial to create a visualization for realtime waveforms etc..

I think what we are thinking of is making volume control an optional parameter to enable/disable. That way we can give the embedder the ability to control that experience for the listener. Thoughts?

There is a parameter to enable keyboard events that's turned off in our demo. You can check out our documentation on GitHub.

The repeat button is on our dev list. Should be out in a week or so.

We do have flash fallback but no one's got time for that :)

Ouch. We didn't have a Linux machine around to test that case but we will definitely look into it. Right now Chrome is the best supported for our player.

I hear you. Look for volume control coming to the player in the next day or so.

Good call. I think we'll just make pressing 'next' loop back to the beginning of the playlist.

A couple people have asked for this today. I think I'll be pushing a UI for this in the next couple of days :)

It's possible. Right now the CSS isn't being applied dynamically so we are actually recreating the player instance every time the theme is changed in this demo.

The second issue is something we are very familiar with. What we think is happening here is that if the track is buffering too slow and the playing progress catches up with the buffer, our player should just stop playing until the track loads. We are playing with the thresholds to make the player pause before it gets to that case. We are pushing a fix for this soon.

We definitely gave this some thought. We put it aside to keep the player minimal assuming that people listening would resort to using the volume control built into their computers.

We have the functionality for it there in the source but we just need to implement a UI for it.

Definitely! I can point you to how we are doing it on our player.

You can reach me at tim@toneden.io

Tim from ToneDen here. You can check out the full repo and documentation at https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk.

Let me know what you guys think!

I think theres a good opportunity here for people considering getting into the streaming space. For example, SoundCloud and Youtube allow you to access streams without tying yourself in with DRM. Artists want to be heard and fans want to be able to access that content easily. With services out there being really good for publishing music, a streaming service that allows an artist to directly engage their fans would be really interesting.

The challenge is creating a community for both the musicians and fans to interact meaningfully. Musicians want to be free from being lumped in with the noise and fans want to be explore that content freely. I think for most streaming services out there, this hasn't really been totally figured out, although Spotify and SoundCloud are trying to.

Not to be a hater, I think it's a cool idea, but spinning up Telescope on a server isn't really 'making' something. At least change the css or something (eg. http://www.hackb.io/)

NASA waiting on Google for a ride up to the moon...C'MON MAN

I'm guessing this requires access to a site viewer's webcam? That would be a request that probably wouldn't fly with new, unique site visitors.