Welcome to the world of canvas manipulation :)

This is basically the core of how CamanJS works. Feel free to browse the source if you need any help or want to learn more! I haven't worked on it in awhile, but hope to get back to it some day.

Sounds like a great opportunity for a little pixel art animation.

Hey guys,

Just to add a little context here... I'll be working with Dan to make the most out of the useful and cool parts of LayerVault. I was the first hired employee at LayerVault and helped to build most of the features in the service (with the help of several of my esteemed colleagues, of course).

While we have some cool ideas on what to do with the LayerVault tech, we would love to hear suggestions from you on what parts of the service you really liked and would like to see resurrected in some way, shape, or form. The overarching plan is to break the site up into various modules that can be sold or licensed as a standalone product, e.g. preview generation or syncing.

It's hosted on Heroku. Saves costs by not requiring a dedicated sysadmin.

I believe ownership of the bot was transferred to DN proper. Before it was run by a user.

Wish I could make it out! Hopefully one of my LayerVault (RIP) colleagues can make it for a little old school throwback action.

Not to speak for Andrew, but from a general point of view... open-sourcing commercial/revenue-generating websites is an incredibly risky business. Running DN costs money, and of course it would be nice to turn a profit to either put back into the business or funnel into another venture. When you open-source something, it's like fully opening the kimono. There is no more secret sauce that makes the site special. By handing the entire platform to anyone who wants to build a ___ News offshoot, you eventually water down your audience and spread them across many sites, which will detract from eyes on DN.

As for your examples... Hacker News is not revenue generating, as far as I know. Y Combinator makes plenty of money from investments, so they can probably fit the bill for HN pretty easily. Reddit is already designed such that it's a meta-community, so creating a reddit clone wouldn't have much appeal since you can just create a new sub-reddit for whatever topic you're interested in.

Believe me, I am a huge advocate of open-source software, but I think DN is handling it the right way so far. Open-sourcing small parts of the site as separate libraries is a great way to give back to the community without sacrificing the business in teh process.

Last I've heard it's not purchased yet. You should hit up Dan if you're thinking about the idea.

Woohoo, I'm in!

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