Telescope is an open-source, real-time social news site built with Meteor
Note: Telescope is beta software. Most of it should work but it's still a little unpolished and you'll probably find some bugs. Use at your own risk :)
- Real-time (of course!)
- Password-based and/or Twitter auth
- Notifications
- Mobile-ready & responsive
- Invite-only access for reading and/or posting
- Markdown support
- Day by day view
- Install Meteor
- Install Meteorite
- Run
mrt
- Use the Heroku buildpack for Meteorite to push to Heroku:
heroku create --stack cedar --buildpack https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite.git - Add MongoHQ addon
- Set the root URL variable used for Twitter auth (on Heroku:
heroku config:add ROOT_URL=http://your_url) - Fill in your Twitter keys
- The first user account created will automatically be made admin
- Check out the settings page and fill out basic things like the site's name