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Palm Beach Gardens teen launches Jurassic app
- RyanZAG 14y ago"As of last week, about 30 people had downloaded Frost’s application" "angel $ offer" Uh oh.. are we in another bubble? I hope not...
- bilus 14y agoOh, come on! How old are you (pun intended). I know I'd have been deliriously happy if any of my apps had gotten a write up like this when I had been 13. Even in a local newspaper. Not that I managed to publish any marketable apps at that age.
- CoryG89 14y agoNot that there was an app store to market them on when most of us were that age.
- bilus 14y agoYou may do have a point there. :)
- larrys 14y ago"I know I'd have been deliriously happy if any of my apps had gotten a write up like this when I had been 13" Actually I can assure you that there is a inverse relationship between age and the chance of getting a newspaper to write an article about something you have done. "17 year old gets into medical school" is barely interesting. "13 year old gets into medical school" is definitely interesting. Same with business, computers, or just about anything.
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- mangoleaf 14y agoThe angel offer came from a retired CEO of a public company that saw the article. The subject of the article is a product of HN: HN introduced us to Khan Academy many years ago, and it his math and [one of the] CS sources. HN introduced us to many learning sources for Java [Programr, Think Like a CS, etc]. HN introduced us to Pygame. HN introduced us to ocw.mit.edu. HN introduced us to Minecraft when it was in early beta. etc.....
- bilus 14y agoNice, great job! Very, very impressive!
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- mangoleaf 14y agoSorry, I wasn't clear. The "us" is the father [me] and son [13yo in article]. HN has been HUGE in his development. We are forever grateful to everyone here in HN.
- citricsquid 14y agooh, I see, I have no idea how I read it the other way around. I thought the pitch was that HN had introduced these things to the world and now HN had introduced your sons app to the world. woops.
- evolve2k 14y agoWe'd love to read a blog post of your own on bringing up your son to be a child hacker.
- mangoleaf 14y agoWill do!
- shimms 14y agoI'm confused - the article doesn't mention an angel investment at all.
- citricsquid 14y agoThe person that submitted this (mangoleaf) is the father of the boy in the story so I assume he knows more than the article mentions.
- mangoleaf 14y agoThe angel offer came from a retired CEO of a public company that saw the article. I posted that as the first comment, but there is no way to make that comment sticky to the top. I see it below.
- shimms 14y agoRight sorry - missed that.
- larrys 14y agoDid you accept the offer and what was the amount of the offer?
- mangoleaf 14y agoI had a talk with my son. He said he wasn't ready. I agreed. The angel said that whenever he feels he is ready, offer stands. Enough to put a structure around him and allow him to focus on products. One manager, one sales/bizdev...enough to cover their salaries for a year or two.
- mangoleaf 14y agoWhat he REALLY wants to do is work for Notch, or some company that is doing a fun and interesting games or educational stuff. He likes team projects. Anyone need a 13yo beta tester that is into the digital game/educational world?
- tdicola 14y agoVery cool--I'm jealous of what a great environment teenagers have for programming today. When I was 13 I was hacking up QBasic games I downloaded from local bulletin boards. A teenager today can publish Android apps to impress their friends and make some spending money!
- marshray 14y agoI'm surprised no one's asked yet -- how did he obtain the samples of dinosaur sounds?
- scrumper 14y agoObviously the time machine was the easy part. Not worth documenting.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoLeft as an exercise to the reader.
- scrumper 14y agoExactly. Like every proof ever: "It is easy to show that..."
- bilus 14y agoIPhone's voice recorder. grin
- mangoleaf 14y agoThere was an old dinosaur pc game from the '90s that has since open sourced. He started from there, but opened each audio file in some application that allowed him to modify each. Some needed truncating, others attenuation, increased amplitude, etc. It was fun watching him mess with the analog signals. There was also a hard limit of media total filesize.
- lukethomas 14y agoGo homeschoolers! I love it (coming from someone who was homeschooled for most of K-12.)
- TypeSafe 14y agoSo whats so special about this?
- jonursenbach 14y agoLink to the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_evanfrosty.JurassicSounds&feature=search_result https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai...
- Salax_ 14y agoIt's a soundboard. Plenty of young teenagers have made much better and more useful things.