diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9dcf0e17b..427d5ddaf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ experimental/genreport/genreport
 experimental/graphviz/graphviz
 experimental/oneshot/oneshot
 experimental/_integration/_integration
-experimental/tracer/main/main
-experimental/tracer/tracer.tar
 *sublime-project
 *sublime-workspace
 *npm-debug.log
diff --git a/experimental/example/app/app.py b/experimental/example/app/app.py
index 696cc2a83..356ff040d 100644
--- a/experimental/example/app/app.py
+++ b/experimental/example/app/app.py
@@ -48,12 +48,26 @@ def ignore_error(f):
     logging.error("Error executing function", exc_info=sys.exc_info())
   return "Error"
 
-@app.route('/')
+# this root is for the tracing demo
+@app.route('/hello')
 def hello():
   qotd_msg = do_qotd()
   qotd_msg = do_echo(qotd_msg)
   return qotd_msg
 
+# this is for normal demos
+@app.route('/')
+def root():
+  counter_future = pool.submit(do_redis)
+  search_future = pool.submit(do_search)
+  qotd_future = pool.submit(do_qotd)
+  echo_future = pool.submit(lambda: do_echo("foo"))
+  result = 'Hello World! I have been seen %s times.' % ignore_error(counter_future.result)
+  result += ignore_error(search_future.result)
+  result += ignore_error(qotd_future.result)
+  result += ignore_error(echo_future.result)
+  return result
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(filename)s:%(lineno)d - %(message)s', level=logging.INFO)
   WSGIRequestHandler.protocol_version = "HTTP/1.1"
diff --git a/experimental/example/run.sh b/experimental/example/run.sh
index 8696d4dab..8be48875e 100755
--- a/experimental/example/run.sh
+++ b/experimental/example/run.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ start_container() {
     done
 }
 
+start_container 1 elasticsearch elasticsearch
+start_container 2 tomwilkie/searchapp searchapp
+start_container 1 redis redis
 start_container 1 tomwilkie/qotd qotd
-start_container 1 tomwilkie/app app
 start_container 1 tomwilkie/echo echo
+start_container 2 tomwilkie/app app
+start_container 2 tomwilkie/frontend frontend --add-host=dns.weave.local:$(weave docker-bridge-ip)
+start_container 1 tomwilkie/client client
+