Telescope

An open-source social news app built with Meteor

Telescope is an open-source social news app (think Hacker News or Reddit) built with Meteor, a real-time Javascript framework.

What Are People Using It For?

The Hacker News Kansai community uses Telescope to keep in touch and share ideas in between meetups.

Sidebar uses Telescope's digest view to display the 5 best design links of the day, as curated by a team of editors.

Leakmap is a dynamic roadmap for Meteor features that lets users vote on the feature they'd most like to see built next.

By the way, we're writing a book!

We're using everything we learned building Telescope to write the definitive guide to building Meteor apps.
Leave us your email, and we'll also send you weekly Meteor tips to help you get started.

A Few Of Telescope's Features

Real-time updating
Invite-only access
Notifications
Markdown with EpicEditor
Email or Twitter authentication
Responsive & mobile-ready
Day-by-day digest view
Open sourced under MIT license
Post categories
Posting rate limit
More coming soon…

Questions, Ideas, Feedback…

Discuss Telescope over at Telescope Meta, or file bugs on GitHub.

The Telescope Team

Sacha Greif

Osaka, Japan

I've worked with startups such as Hipmunk and RubyMotion as a product designer. But I now focus on helping startups find great designers with Folyo, as well as writing books.

Tom Coleman

Melbourne, Australia

I'm one part of Percolate Studio, a web development shop with a focus on quality and user experience. I'm also the co-creator of Meteorite and the Atmosphere package repository.

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