Ask HN: What's the best live blogging/etherpad-like service?

[jasonmcalacanis]

I've got a research team of three that makes live notes for me in a "ticker" (google doc) to inform my angel investing. They basically profile startups and product information for me, and from that I select startups to meet with it. I'd like to share the real-time ticker with the public, but Google Docs is a just a dog when you invite more than 25 people to it. I'm wondering if there is a live blogging style platform out there that can handle like 10,000 folks watching my researchers type. Thoughts? Etherpad wasn't stable enough sadly.

[rdl]

https://www.stypi.com/

[kwadade]

Hey Jason have you heard of Spoken Layer (spokenlayer.com)?

[jasonmcalacanis → kwadade]

No, but I do think it's a very cool idea. Downloading the app right now from iTunes.

[howradical]

Check out hackpad.

[adito → howradical]

The link: https://hackpad.com/

[jasonmcalacanis → howradical]

we tested etherpad, which hackpad is built on (and google docs is) and it's just not super stable if you have 50+ folks on it.

[howradical → jasonmcalacanis]

I've spoken with the founders and from what I understand they basically gutted and rewrote Etherpad. It's been used at both Pycon and SXSW which I'm assuming was pretty heavy load.

[jasonmcalacanis → howradical]

It's great for 10 folks, but I need a 10,000 person solution. sigh, i guess i need to build it.

[orph → jasonmcalacanis]

hackpad op here. give me a ping, i think we can support you.

[philipes]

Scribble Live

[jasonmcalacanis → philipes]

doesn't seem to work for this function. I need something really lightweight. i think i might have to build it. If there's a developer out there who wants to work on a live ticker CMS with me please ping me jason AT calacanis.com

[andrewhillman → jasonmcalacanis]

There are a bunch of extremely light weight blogging/cms engines built w/ node.js. I've seen a bunch on github like https://github.com/joehewitt/nerve/ Probably a good place to start if looking to build your own light weight solution.