Show HN: Dashku - a real-time dashboard app, built with SocketStream

Getting this error:<p>Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory '/root/apps/status/client/static/assets/main/1340976517230.html' at Object.openSync (fs.js:240:18) at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:128:15) at ServerResponse.&#60;anonymous&#62; (/root/apps/status/node_modules/socketstream/lib/client/http.js:34:26) at EventEmitter.&#60;anonymous&#62; (/root/apps/status/app.coffee:48:16) at EventEmitter.emit (/root/apps/status/node_modules/socketstream/node_modules/eventemitter2/lib/eventemitter2.js:319:22) at Router.route (/root/apps/status/node_modules/socketstream/lib/http/router.js:18:15) at Object.handle (/root/apps/status/node_modules/socketstream/lib/http/index.js:96:54) at next (/root/apps/status/node_modules/socketstream/node_modules/connect/lib/proto.js:190:15) at /root/apps/status/node_modules/socketstream/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/session.js:299:9 at /root/apps/status/node_modules/socketstream/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/session.js:322:9

Hi everyone,<p>My apologies, I didn't expect to end up Top of HN. I'll try and get it back up.<p>In the meantime, here is the YouTube video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxf8f9AQBgM&#38;feature=plcp" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxf8f9AQBgM&#38;feature=plcp</a>

You shouldn't be serving your static landing pages and assets over node.js. Ideally you should have an nginx server reverse proxy dynamic requests to your node.js server. Nginx should serve the static assets before the requests hit the node server.

Here is a little piece of a script I wrote to push the limits up on an Ubuntu box during setup (AWS).<p><pre><code> # Increase File Descriptor limits. export FILEMAX=`sysctl -n fs.file-max` sudo mv /etc/security/limits.conf /etc/security/limits.conf.bak sudo touch /etc/security/limits.conf sudo chmod 666 /etc/security/limits.conf echo "root soft nofile $FILEMAX" &#62;&#62; /etc/security/limits.conf echo "root hard nofile $FILEMAX" &#62;&#62; /etc/security/limits.conf echo "* soft nofile $FILEMAX" &#62;&#62; /etc/security/limits.conf echo "* hard nofile $FILEMAX" &#62;&#62; /etc/security/limits.conf sudo chmod 644 /etc/security/limits.conf touch /home/ubuntu/.bash_profile echo "ulimit -n $FILEMAX" &#62;&#62; /home/ubuntu/.bash_profile # Increase Ephemeral Ports. sudo chmod 666 /etc/sysctl.conf echo "net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535" &#62;&#62; /etc/sysctl.conf sudo chmod 644 /etc/sysctl.conf</code></pre>

Seen a couple of startup's sites go down when they make the HN homepage lately, and both seem to be using node.js (according to the error messages). Not dissing node.js, but maybe its the wrong tool for the job.. Just use a static site for your landing page!

14 minute video? Why? On the homepage have a video that is 30-60 seconds. here is an example <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcZjtGS1CE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcZjtGS1CE</a><p>Otherwise looks good.

Site seems to be having problems. Suggestion to the OP (your page also seems to be down) is to link to a static site with a demo video or description of the product. Or, test the load your app can handle before posting here.

Looks interesting. I looked at Geckoboard a while ago but gave up since the dashboards didn't offer the flexibility I needed at the time, and they were just too slow to render (I don't have a dedicated screen, just want to it the page often).<p>One issue: I tried to sign up using Chrome 20 (Windows 7) and the dialog that appears is below the video in the Z-order.

This is great. I really like how you can test your widgets with sample data.<p>Because of the lack of a decent dashboard solution, we've been running our own. We absolutely wanted to use D3 and we wanted to have multiple, toggleable pages.<p>This might just do the trick.

I have tried most of those dashboard services and the best one by far for me is <a href="http://klipfolio.com/" rel="nofollow">http://klipfolio.com/</a>

I see nothing but a link to self. Did something break?

The youtube video was blocking the sign up form for me -- I had to remove that div in "Inspect Element" before I could make an account...

The title remembers me on <a href="http://beautifulmind.io/" rel="nofollow">http://beautifulmind.io/</a> which was on HN some days ago

The app's assets (main.js and main.css) aren't being served properly. So right now I can only see a link to self on the homepage.

Is this always going to be free? Because there are other competitors in this space currently with premium solutions...

This looks very slick, kudos!<p>Small nitpick: why do I need to give myself a username when signing up?

The self-signed SSL certificate causes Firefox to scream security issue. You might want to fix that.

Much of the text in the page is not visible, and the layout is broken.<p>Chrome 20 on Ubuntu 12.04.

Independent of what it does and all, you have designed the UI really good. Kudos for that.

<a href="https://dashku.com/" rel="nofollow">https://dashku.com/</a> is not working for me.

Website is still down, that's a shame - OP can't even get the homepage back online before showing HN.<p>30 minutes to bring back a homepage is pretty bad man, also your personal homepage <a href="http://paulbjensen.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://paulbjensen.co.uk</a> is returning NO CONTENT, is that on the same (bricked) server?

thank you for this! just created a awesome dashboard very quick! :)<p>why not create a kickstarter project and raise enough money so you can open source the code? i would definitely contribute!

So this is free for now, what are you thinking of charging?

demo page doesn't work in Chrome. Map doesn't do anything. updating text is in a thin column down the left side that scrolls off below the main image.

(Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap)

Put Varnish in front of it, quick!

Not loading for me.

website is down