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The easiest way to launch your own Product Hunt-like site
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Telescope - The easiest way to launch your own Product Hunt-like site

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Telescope is a free open-source app built with 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 and . We've also completely refactored Telescope's internal API to be much easier to understand, as well as written from scratch. Telescope is not just for Product Hunt-type sites by the way. You can also use it for or , or ;) 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!
great! I got an error trying to try it out. Mind contacting me? andyodower on the gmail.
+1 to meteor devs! I am a few weeks in and love it.
awesome job! how flexible this is? For example to embed video on the homepage feed or images?
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You can do both. See for example.
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.
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!
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thanks! If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you certainly need tenacity with open-source projects!
Excellent point. 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?
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it's actually easier, because you can now update with `meteor update`. No need to use Git anymore, unless you want to.
We used this on and it's been amazing. From idea to product in 4 days because of Telescope
We have been using Telescope for 11 months now for and it's awesome. Try it out!
Totes amazeballs (especially considering it's all open-source).
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!
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.
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.
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!
We use it on and it is great. Sacha is doing an awesome job on telescope.
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