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meatier
JavaScript2016–2016
mattkrick / meatier

meatier

:hamburger: like meteor, but meatier :hamburger:

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9Mentions
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3KGitHub stars
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:hamburger: like meteor, but meatier :hamburger:

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-01-20 21:09:09 UTC to 2016-10-26 15:17:25 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsJan 20162016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 20162016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2016

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 20162016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Mar 20162016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Apr 20162016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC110
May 20162016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20162016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20162016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20162016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20162016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20162016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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jondubois·Apr 7, 2016Submission

Apply HN: Baasil.io – Open Source as a Service

Baasil.io (https://baasil.io) is currently just a pub/sub service but we are working to turn it into a full-blown Backend as a Service. Our broader mission is to help make open source projects available 'as a service' and we want open source founders and maintainers to benefit! Baasil.io itself will be similar to Firebase except you can swap out the database layer (you can self host your database or use a third-party db as a service). It will be fully database agnostic. Our founders are long-time open source contributors and creators of https://github.com/socketcluster/socketcluster and https://github.com/mattkrick/meatier We are part of a broader loosely-coupled collaborative of 10+ popular open source founders who are working to create a new generation of tools and compatible services for building and running the next generation of web
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applications. Our open source collab runs open source projects with an aggregate of 10K+ GitHub stars affecting all levels of the application stack ranging from Graph databases, deployment utilities, realtime data transport layer, frameworks and even react-based drag-and-drop UI builders. We want to turn open source repos into compatible services (both compatible with the self-hosted open source versions and with other services). Some projects maintained by our broader collaborative: http://socketcluster.io, https://github.com/mattkrick/meatier, http://dgraph.io/, https://github.com/ipselon/structor, http://www.azk.io/ We are always looking for new trending indie open source founders to join our collab and work with us.
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Except, claiming you guys are "Real Time" just because you offer a basic websockets implementation and positioning your offering as anything that compares to Meteor is a sham. You don't have real time. You have web sockets that anyone can trivially hook up with NPM. You're undermining Meteor's exhaustive real time functionality when you say that. You are also tricking would-be users who don't know any better. They will show up using your framework, have extremely limited (basically non-existent) real-time functionality, and never know what they would have missed had they looked more into Meteor. Meteor offers a slew of real time features, propagating real time observation of the database up the stack through your webservers to your views, all functioning seamlessly with feature-packed APIs to query your data and make sure everything is ke
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pt up to date. But I think you know this. Capitalizing on your juxtaposition next to Meteor only makes you look bad to someone that actually uses Meteor. You're trying to convince people who haven't used Meteor--and perhaps don't have much experience when it comes to real time--that Feathers is remotely close of an option if you have real time needs. It's not. And most likely a few months from now you will be using the open source--and decoupled from Meteor--Reactive GraphQL (Apollo) project they are developing as the basis for your real time functionality. Only at that point will you be able to claim your real time--but that's beside the point. You've been around for years, and now your framework is just "a few hundred lines of code"?? That's because you're likely taking the marketing value of having been in the game for a few years (though minimal value compared to claiming you come remotely close to competing with Meteor), and using the name "Feathers" to back your latest reincarnation where your mix-n-match a hodgepodge of NPM libraries that anyone can easily do. Sorry you had to throw away a bunch of code--I know how that goes--but call it what it is instead of all this dishonesty: your latest NPM boilerplate. The newer and humbler Meatier boilerplate offers more realtime than you do!: https://github.com/mattkrick/meatier . And its author doesn't attempt to presume it's anything more than a highly useful boilerplate. THESE GUYS (FEATHERS) HAVE NO REAL-TIME OFFERING, EVERYONE. DON'T BE FOOLED. If Real Time is what you want, these guys are not it. I find The dishonesty of their marketing unappealing and I hope anyone reading this does too. They are capitalizing on the "Meteor" name and its deep association with "real time" functionality, when in fact they are nothing like it.
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