Dave's new project: Webhook

I'm surprised I hadn't seen a thread on this yet, but anyway, for those that don't already know...

Giant Bomb's illustrious former designers and engineers Dave Snider, Andy McCurdy and Mike Horn have teamed up on a new venture called Webhook. It's a brand new website publishing platform. No, it's not another Giant Bomb or even Rival Video Game Website, but it sounds like a cool idea and hopefully it attracts a lot of business.

Brb making nethook.ru

I don't know much about website stuff but that looks cool though.

They need a new name WebHook just makes me think it's short for web hook up and that it's some bad low rent dating site.

Nice! Wish em nothin but the best.

So its like Squarespace? I hope it works out for them.

Best of luck to them dudes....ers...

How is their video player?

HQ mode only lets you set to 540p.

Those traitorous bastards!!!

So Squarespace?

Geocities.

Angelfire?

MS Word '97 Web Page Wizard.

that's called free money. They've figured out this whole internet thing.

Oh, they're Webhookers now? Ah. Hm.

oh man, poor squarespace.

Heh.

I like that sites layout, it's super clean, although there's not much on it so maybe that's why.

Good for them. Although all I can think of when trying to read that page is Dave's creepy half-laugh. Awesome to see they can keep their sense of humor in a risky new venture.

Good luck and all that.

more like a modernised Wordpress

This is absolutely terrific to see. Dave's a great guy and a talented-ass designer; I'll definitely check this out on occasion. Best of luck to you, duder.

Yup, that's what I got it from it as well. Plus it's powered by Django...which this site no longer uses. ;_;

It looks like a similar content delivery system to what Giant Bomb and comic vine use (they did build it after all). It's less to do with the front end of websites and more the inner workings sorta like wordpress. Amazes me that many sites out there are still manually editing the HTML of pages to post articles and stuff, what is this the seventies?!

It seems like it's maybe a bit more of an open CMS than WordPress. In my experience, WP works well for simpler content management (blog, etc.), but it gets a bit difficult to work with when you try to use it to manage a lot of complex data, especially if you try to have a lot of relationships and connections within your data.

Hey, I can still sling together an HTML file if need be!

This sounds like a business oriented Facebook. It's a crowded market. I would wish Dave all the luck in the world, but I selfishly hope that he fails and returns to Giant Bomb. Brad's a great guy, but that most recent flight sim quick look just wasn't quite the same without Snider.

@sinusoidal: Part of the reason too why he was drawn to do that project was because he was working with Django again and it pretty much shows from what he said yesterday on Twitter:

I think he was probably not happy with the change of having to scrap Django in GB and Comic Vine even though he didn't mention it in his blog months ago.

So does this mean he's now Django Unchained?

I was waiting for that to happen. You are now on "the list".

Wix!?

Signed up.

YA HEAR THAT? YOU'RE ON HIS SHIT-LIST!

Django is fantastic, I use it at work. I can imagine being pretty upset at having to switch to PHP.

Great, I'll have to change the locks on my house again.

It looks like a website I guess

Maybe someday the Bombcast will run advertisements for Webhook.

Who said anything about being on my shit-list. I filed him under funny/wise guys.

Coolness, good luck to David and crew.

Cool. something like this is just what I'm looking for to start a blog of sorts. Though.. I've been messing with Squarespace for a couple months and really like it, so they'll have some convincing to do. If it's more configurable/customizable than squarespace I'll be sold.

The image on the side thing, that's different.

Don't believe him! That's code for "I know where you live and I'm going to end you!"

To be fair, Symfony (what the new GB is built on) is a pretty decent framework as well. I'll agree though, switching over from the language and framework that you're accustomed to can be a bit of a pain.

yeah i've heard symfony is ok, supposedly it is meant to be like django. But it is still in PHP which is pretty terrible.