This site hasn't gained much traction so I'm shutting it down. Please PM me if you are interested in the domain name.
Does this mean the phone app will stop working as well? I like that app, I use it almost every day. Thanks for keeping it going for so long! 
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I've been using this website for a few weeks now, and it's been the fastest way for me to check the price on my crappy old phone. Kudos!
Thank you! My goal was to keep this website as lightweight as possible. It doesn't have the fancy bells and whistles that other sites have, but it does serve one purpose well: to provide the latest price in a clean, simple interface.
I have not considered selling, but for the right price I suppose I would. Both sites are starting to gain traction from Google and I see a lot of potential in them, so I wouldn't be willing to let them go very easily. Feel free to PM an offer.
Both sites use custom CSS.
I've been using this website for a few weeks now, and it's been the fastest way for me to check the price on my crappy old phone. Kudos!
Thank you! My goal was to keep this website as lightweight as possible. It doesn't have the fancy bells and whistles that other sites have, but it does serve one purpose well: to provide the latest price in a clean, simple interface.
I would install this if u could make the Bitcoin price to appear in the upper line on the phone so i can see it non stop, clock on the right, bitcoin price on the left.
It has that advantage that i dont have to open the app everytime i need to see the price.
It has that advantage that i dont have to open the app everytime i need to see the price.
This could probably be packaged up in an Web View or using something like PhoneGap. Not sure how reliable these have become as of lately though. Last I looked they still needed a little work. You are basically asking for a native app.
Thanks! This is something I may consider in the future, but my goal is to keep this website as simple as possible. Maybe I can throw in a very simple graph eventually, along with 24 hr +/- change percentage.
I can help you with the code. I think I have some code for it suing some library, HMU if needed. You wont be able to use the chart commercially in that case. 
Are you just using blockchain for your rates? I would minifiy your HTML and then use angular / jquery / ajax to fetch the prices.
jquery and ajax is ok, i do know them, but how do you use angularJS?None of them are strictly necessary. It depends on the job. The thing about AngularJS and other frameworks like that (maybe Polymer too) is that they provide you already with all the common things web developers will need. Including AJAX calls and even styling. But I think these can be overkill for some small projects. The learning curve may be a little steep at first but once you get it I can see why people want to use it for everything they do - it really makes it easy.
Are you just using blockchain for your rates? I would minifiy your HTML and then use angular / jquery / ajax to fetch the prices.
jquery and ajax is ok, i do know them, but how do you use angularJS? Are you just using blockchain for your rates? I would minifiy your HTML and then use angular / jquery / ajax to fetch the prices.
btc rates from blockchain.info
fiat rates from quandl.com
Lots' of interesting stuff in this thread!
I've developed cryptowatch.com, it's backend is in node.js and I'm also using socket.io to provide push updates to the clients.
Site: http://cryptowatch.com/
Currently I'm just updating prices about once every 5 minutes through a cron job which runs a c++ program that uses libcurl to fetch prices from various exchanges. The prices are then inserted to a mysql database, and the node.js server checks the database about every 10 seconds and if there's a change in the data, it's pushed to the connected clients over the active websocket.
I've changed the fetching model from a sequential one to a parallel one where I use threads to initiate all the fetching of data, which makes it quite faster to get all the price tickers from various exchanges.
The site is also responsive, so it should work great on all screen sizes.
Development was somewhat slow as this was much unfamiliar technology for me. And the site is still just at 0.1 alpha stage.
Thank you for the tip about meteor, I will look more into it.
Did anyone of you look into glyphicons? Ie. vector icons that resize as the window the site is displayed in resizes?
I see there's a link here to a btc glyph icon:
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/btc/
Also, lastly are you intending to monetize your sites? And if so, how?
I also liked the trick at http://ibit.io/ where the price is shown in the tab of the browser, quite neat trick.
I also found a jQuery plugin that was quite nice: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago
"Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago")"
If you look at http://bitcoinity.org/markets, you will see they have implemented such fuzzy timestamps there.
I also noticed that tickers are quite different between various exchanges, and in one instance (btc-e) they'd even managed to switch ask and bid-values in the ticker. There should really be a standard for how tickers was presented, which would make it easier for developers working with API's from various exchanges.
You may want to look into using websockets instead of ajax requests for getting live prices from various exchanges. I'm not sure if PHP is well suited for the job.
I've developed cryptowatch.com, it's backend is in node.js and I'm also using socket.io to provide push updates to the clients.
Site: http://cryptowatch.com/
Currently I'm just updating prices about once every 5 minutes through a cron job which runs a c++ program that uses libcurl to fetch prices from various exchanges. The prices are then inserted to a mysql database, and the node.js server checks the database about every 10 seconds and if there's a change in the data, it's pushed to the connected clients over the active websocket.
I've changed the fetching model from a sequential one to a parallel one where I use threads to initiate all the fetching of data, which makes it quite faster to get all the price tickers from various exchanges.
The site is also responsive, so it should work great on all screen sizes.
Development was somewhat slow as this was much unfamiliar technology for me. And the site is still just at 0.1 alpha stage.
Thank you for the tip about meteor, I will look more into it.
Did anyone of you look into glyphicons? Ie. vector icons that resize as the window the site is displayed in resizes?
I see there's a link here to a btc glyph icon:
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/btc/
Also, lastly are you intending to monetize your sites? And if so, how?
I also liked the trick at http://ibit.io/ where the price is shown in the tab of the browser, quite neat trick.
I also found a jQuery plugin that was quite nice: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago
"Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago")"
If you look at http://bitcoinity.org/markets, you will see they have implemented such fuzzy timestamps there.
I also noticed that tickers are quite different between various exchanges, and in one instance (btc-e) they'd even managed to switch ask and bid-values in the ticker. There should really be a standard for how tickers was presented, which would make it easier for developers working with API's from various exchanges.
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