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Sacha Greif
@sachagreif · Designer, Sidebar
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!
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Andy O'Dower
@odower · Head of Product @curiositydotcom
@sachagreif great! I got an error trying to try it out. Mind contacting me? andyodower on the gmail.
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jack rometty
@rometty_ · student
@sachagreif +1 to meteor devs! I am a few weeks in and love it.
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Derek Morin
@demoweb_co · CEO @ Tabarnapp
@sachagreif awesome job! how flexible this is? For example to embed video on the homepage feed or images?
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Sacha Greif
@sachagreif · Designer, Sidebar
@demoweb_co You can do both. See http://zombts.com/ for example.
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Arunoda Susiripala
@arunoda · Founder, kadira.io
@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.
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Michael Sitver
@msitver · Curator @ Morning Short, Commute Kit
@sachagreif I use telescope for Http://blogbuilders.club (I just built this like a week ago. Pre-launch)
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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.
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Derek Morin
@demoweb_co · CEO @ Tabarnapp
@sachagreif can we use bootstrap?
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