For all the geeks out there

We’ve discussed wi.nr with a few entrepreneurs and one of the first questions we get is “how was it built?” So we thought we’d provide a nice rundown of the platforms we’ve used, as well as give out some props:

winr is written in python and built on the Tornado Framework which provides all sorts of goodies like OAuth authentication and a screaming fast asynchronous web server out of the box.

winr is hosted on Amazon Web Services: We make use of Elastic Compute Cloud and Relational Database Service in particular.

We’re using the Google Visualization API to draw pretty graphs for statistics, the excellent Chunk Font from The League of Moveable Type. We’re also using the beautiful Helveticons and Silk Icons in a few places.

Props!