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Show HN: hacking our set-top box

by juliennakache on 2/5/12, 9:24 PM with 15 comments

We're 2 hackers out of NYC and we had tons of fun building Zapkast.com, our take on Social TV.

We played with: - c/c++ for hacking our set top boxes, - ruby/rails for the rest api, - eventmachine/node/erlang for the xmpp api/real time backend, - ios/cocoa for the iPhone app, - redis & mysql for the datastores.

We did everything ourselves, even the logo and UI :) Tell us what you think! http://zapkast.com

  • by mickeyben on 2/5/12, 9:41 PM

  • by vkdelta on 2/5/12, 9:40 PM

    Would you please explain STB component of the app? I don't see any.

  • by isalmon on 2/8/12, 7:06 PM

    Very nice idea guys, going to use that.

  • by mickeyben on 2/5/12, 9:31 PM

    too bad it's limited to the US store

  • by lordarf on 2/5/12, 9:38 PM

    i love the screenshot feature

  • by lithium42 on 2/5/12, 9:51 PM

    Great idea, I like it !

  • by julienhwd on 2/6/12, 10:12 AM

    Nice App!

  • by patothon on 2/5/12, 9:29 PM

    Nice!