Very pretty, both in terms of code and site design.

Love the simplicity of the design

Pushstate 4 the win. Done with hash fragments not going back to that mess. Pushstate is quick and easy to implement,I don't see a reason to over complicate.

Great question and links. I'v been waiting to see someone ask this.

That's just down right cool

Too bad it is most likely not true! But it's a down right cool PR move

Why do you say that?

Because it's completely unrealistic that a person who has no programming experience, even worse even no basic HTML experience will have familiarity with a Gemfile, how to hide access keys from a repository, etc.

If you think that that information is something you can understand, internalize and actually make work in less than 5 days you're delusional.

It doesn't say she understands it, could just be a copy paste from a tutorial right?

I highly doubt that. When I first started programming it took me upwards of a day to have a simple Windows Form that had two textboxes and displayed a Message Box saying "Hello" + textBox1.Text + " and " + textBox2.Text. Even copy and pasting didn't work.

Perhaps the state of tutorials and online help (stack overflow etc) are much better than in your day. I know they are compared to mine.

Perhaps she coppied the whole project and then just went back through it, changing things and if they didn't work reverted.

where you here when the last post was dropped?

I noticed pitcher.io uses hash fragments do you guys plan on going to pushstate? Have you noticed any issues with google indexing the hash URLs?

I'd love to go that way, but I've never managed to get backbone.js pushstate to work. And yes, I have noticed that Google doesn't like hash URLs. It's annoying.

But, that said, Google search traffic isn't a likely source of users, so I've not spent much time figuring out a solution yet. There are much bigger problems to solve before that. Like how to stop posting on HN when I should be working. :)

I've visited Pitcher.io. I think the messaging on the site is kind of complex, maybe you should focus on one value proposition and communicate that?

http://omnipapr.com Not a startup yet just really a side project. You can have a look at the interface with the test account. user:test pass:win