Jason

Infinitely hackable mobile client

5 followers

Infinitely hackable mobile client

5 followers

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Kitty

Maker

Hi guys, I found that it takes too much effort going from having an idea to building an app and having the world use it. I wanted a way to have an idea, turn it into a fully functional native app, and share it with the world, all in the next 10 minutes, almost like writing a blog post. That's why I built Jason. Jason is a completely hackable iOS client that does what you tell it to do. You just write a script in JSON and load it from Jason. Jason then interprets it in realtime and turns it into a native app. Check out the gallery to see what's possible. For example here's a product hunt client I built yesterday, in 10 minutes. http://www.jasonclient.org/galle... You can use it right now.

Here's what I had to go through to build that app: 1. I opened up my text editor. 2. Wrote a JSON. 3. Saved and shared it online. That took about 10 minutes and the app was LIVE immediately for anyone to use, simply by sharing the JSON url. Jason was extracted from production apps including Ethan and Textcast, which means it can do some serious stuff, probably anything you would need in a modern cloud-facing mobile app. In fact the current version of both Textcast and Ethan are running on Jason.

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10yr ago

Lex

@gliechtenstein This is so cool! Just made a Jason site (site, right?) for Hardbound.co in like 20m! http://hardbound.pubstorm.site/h... How do we submit to the gallery?

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10yr ago

Kitty

Maker

@nbashaw Here's a horizontal version :) http://www.jasonbase.com/things/... (You can also open it using url scheme: jason://data/http://www.jasonbase.com/things/...) Let me think about the gallery I honestly haven't thought this through because I've been so focused on getting this out there. Please sign up for slack channel if you're interested we can chat there!

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10yr ago

Lex

@gliechtenstein awesome! signed up for the slack as soon as I saw this, can't wait for the invite :)

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10yr ago

Status - 2 - #NoBanNoWall

@gliechtenstein this is so awesome. any chance you'll release something to let us ship apps without having to have users use the Jason app? I'd love to make some interesting stuff without having to say "go get Jason and copy in this URL"

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10yr ago

Raycast

Hunter

The latest esoteric app from Ethan-creator, @gliechtenstein. Check out the gallery for some examples of mini-apps you can build from just a JSON file (hence the name!).

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10yr ago

Kitty

Maker

@chrismessina haha It's probably as powerful as it is esoteric!

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10yr ago

Kitty

Maker

I specifically reached out to chris to check this out for hunting because he's one of the important contributors of OAuth, and OAuth was what gave me the most headache during the development process (but once implemented very much powerful) so I thought it would be an honor. Maybe I'll build a custom Uber client on Jason that only lets Chris uber me :)

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10yr ago

Wow, very interesting. But I am afraid that it will not work to turn appernetic.io in to an instant IOS app. I use auth0 and Stripe.

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10yr ago

Kitty

Maker

@goransv123 Authentication is one of the top priority features on Jason. Currently Jason supports regular token authentication http://www.jasonclient.org/doc/#... and OAuth(oauth1, oauth 2, and the iOS native social framework) http://www.jasonclient.org/doc/#... I do plan to provide a way to integrate 3rd party APIs easily. Would love to discuss, please join the slack channel here http://textethan.us8.list-manage... I will send out invites today.

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10yr ago

AR Fidget Spinner

I got to play with an early version of this and was fascinating to see it evolve. I can see it eventually consolidating all my clients apps like Twitter, HN, etc. into one app. There's no quicker way to build a native UI for your API. It's only going to get more powerful. Can't wait to see how it develops and how people will use it.

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10yr ago

Status - 2 - #NoBanNoWall

I just turned PodRec into a Jason app. Thanks @gliechtenstein!

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10yr ago

I actually thought this guy is crazy until it turned out that he is a real genius. I am speechless at the possibilities.

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9yr ago

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