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The easiest way to launch your own Product Hunt-like site
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Sacha Greif
Telescope — The easiest way to launch your own Product Hunt-like site
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Sacha Greif
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Telescope is a free open-source app built with Meteor that makes it easy for anyone to launch their own community, and we just pushed a big update to make it easier to install and customize. The install process is now super simple (no more having to use git!), and Telescope now supports themes and plugins. We've also completely refactored Telescope's internal API to be much easier to understand, as well as written new documentation from scratch. Telescope is not just for Product Hunt-type sites by the way. You can also use it for content aggregation or event scheduling, or getting to #2 on Product Hunt ;) Lots of PH members have used Telescope to launch products already, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people can do with this new version!
Andy O'Dower
@sachagreif great! I got an error trying to try it out. Mind contacting me? andyodower on the gmail.
Derek Morin
@sachagreif awesome job! how flexible this is? For example to embed video on the homepage feed or images?
Sacha Greif
Maker
@demoweb_co You can do both. See http://zombts.com/ for example.
Arunoda Susiripala
Top Product
@sachagreif I really agree on the point about not only a product hunt type site. Code buddies is a pretty good one for different type of use. They've even integrated Google Hangout. I'm planning to start a new community for different kind of different purpose. Let's see. Telescope updating method was the biggest pain the earlier version. But with the meteor package system integration solves that in a very clever way. I really like that. Kudos for that.
Michael Sitver
@sachagreif I use telescope for Http://blogbuilders.club (I just built this like a week ago. Pre-launch) :) Impressive work so far, but it's really hard for amateurs to customize. Meteor packages require serious meteor knowledge. I look forward to seeing what you do with easy customizability in future updates.
Ry Walker
Sacha's efforts on Telescope are a case study in open-source tenacity — love that Telescope has been completely refactored to the point that it is a Meteor package vs. a starter app. This means that any Meteor app can add a Telescope community to it by typing `meteor add telescope:core` — I expect to see a lot more Telescope communities now!
Sacha Greif
Maker
@rywalker thanks! If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you certainly need tenacity with open-source projects!
Siddharth Gupta
@rywalker Excellent point. @sachagreif for major structural changes do I need to maintain a local copy of the package? Is it as easy as it was before to preserve changes through updates?
Sacha Greif
Maker
@siddygups it's actually easier, because you can now update with `meteor update`. No need to use Git anymore, unless you want to.
Justin Mitchell
We used this on http://getsyrup.com and it's been amazing. From idea to product in 4 days because of Telescope
Michael
Telescope is great. Wonderful blend of simplicity (to use), power (to make), and customization . This could be the backbone for a lot of great new ideas.
Armaan Gupta
I've been a user for Telescope for quite some time now and it really is kickass! Just checked out the one-click Heroku deployment and wish that existed months ago when I first started messing around with it!
tobiaft
We have been using Telescope for 11 months now for http://datalook.io and it's awesome. Try it out!
James Greig
Totes amazeballs (especially considering it's all open-source).
Nicolas Galera-Giron
We use it on http://frenchstart.fr and it is great. Sacha is doing an awesome job on telescope.
Ryan Alam
We've used telescope for a few projects now and it's great. Love it and excited for this refactor :)
Flavio Copes
Telescope is one amazing Open Source pearl, one of the best introductory app one can try to get as sense of Meteor. The app itself is amazing and its code is a great learning resource as well!
Ryan Durant
I found this super easy to implement and maintain even before the refactor. I can't wait to get my hands on the new features and customizations.
Tyler Rollins
Really clean and user friendly! Nice work, keep it up guys!