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I had this idea a while ago, Notch was having one of his programming live streams. I thought, man what if instead of us just watching this guy write code we could all be working on it at the same time.

I don't know how well it would work, but it would be cool to use a platform like this to try it. Maybe some open source app. It would be like an Amish barn raisin'



We do have a hidden code_roulette feature. We do a bad job of explaining privacy or potentially the lack thereof to our users. Once we get that figured out, we can add more social features.

As for the barn raising, its not too uncommon for ggreer or I to spot bugs in other peoples code on Floobits. There is probably an entirely different business somewhere in there.


You guys should sponsor an event where some famous programmer leads a programming session with an audience on your service.


Yeah that would be awesome. Even like a hackathon or collaborative game jam would be a lot of fun.


Yeah, this is in the works but we need to smooth out our multi user support and clean up vim and emacs first.




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