I can not understand this at all. Can someone please explain this strange cultural phenomenon?<p>I'm serious. What could possibly make someone work on anything for 30 hours straight (with only one hour break)? I couldn't imagine myself spending 30 hours straight on any activity voluntarily. What about the health implications?<p>This reminds me of gamers dying of cardiac arrest after spending days on end in front of a computer.
Also want to add that Firebase should definitely do a write-up about their Angelhack sponsorship. We were so impressed by the way that they helped and encouraged everyone there. Andrew, the CEO was giving us advice at 4AM on a Sunday morning! Seriously, these guys are amazing--basically, anytime anyone is building anything real-time, I'm going to refer them to Firebase.
I've been wondering about why people do this sort of thing, so thanks for answering that.<p>I found it curious that Startupbus, which I believe is going on right now, seems to never have had much traction on HN, and when it did, it appeared to be astroturf. It seems like an unforgettable and intense experience, but combining a hackathon with cabin fever and gross bathrooms just doesn't seem like a lot of fun.
Hah, they mentioned the Firebase guys. They're awesome - been using them for a while now doing 'live' things. Good to hear hackathons are digging firebase.
Looks great, will you be keeping the site up and running?<p>edit: When I am signed in and 1.) click "Load Craigslist Listings" then 2.) click "Cancel" 3.) I get "We're sorry, but something went wrong."<p>I'm not sure how frequently users will be clicking cancel or if it happens in every browser but FWIW this is happening in Safari(desktop).
Very, very cool idea. A couple of remarks:<p>1) How does this get around the Craigslist TOS (if it does at all)? Not being accusatory -- and I doubt this kind of use would be draining on CL -- just interested if that was at all an issue to deal with?<p>2) It's encouraging to hear that you used Rails 3.2's ActiveStore on a production app. That's a cool feature but I was wondering if it was stable enough to use.