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Hipster CEO
- davidgerard 13y agoSo has anyone given it a play yet?
- kawsper 13y agoYes, I gave it a couple of plays some days ago. It is a bit buggy, I experienced several crashes on my iPhone 4S. It is a bit hard to get the business going, and you can very easily get your company owned by investors that makes all sorts of changes to your business :-)
- openshades 13y ago> Yes, I gave it a couple of plays some days ago. I see what you did there
- RafiqM 13y agoYes, it's quite a fun game, similar to Game Dev Tycoon if you've played that. There were crashes in the first release but it seems to be fixed now.
- nailer 13y agoI bought it, but it kind of just stops after you name your company and product. You read two emails, then you're left on your own to figure out how to do stuff.
- nrivadeneira 13y ago> You read two emails, then you're left on your own to figure out how to do stuff. So, it's just like real life.
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- gearoidoc 13y agoHeyo. I'm Ger, the guy behind this - saw a huge spike in traffic and thought it very much looked like a HN frontage incident. I built the app in just over three months; alternating between development and marketing a day at a time. The game is still at an early stage (read: quite buggy) but I'm working on it everyday to improve stability. Nevertheless, I've a ton of nice feedback from people who love the game. I'll be developing the app over the next few months so expect to see plenty new features. Happy to answer any questions you guys wanna throw out there.
- RafiqM 13y agoAlternating days: How did that work out for you?
- gearoidoc 13y agoPretty much great in every sense. From a launch perspective: I had a mailing list of 1600 people built up before launch thanks to getting mentioned on places like Buzzfeed, BetaList etc From a skills perspective: I already had some (though very limited) app marketing experience but when launch came around I had spoken to so many journalists that I knew 1) where I wanted to get mentioned 2) how to communicate what the app is about (something I struggled with A LOT at the start). From a day-to-day perspective: great too as it added a nice variety to my week.
- pearjuice 13y agoWhere is the Android version? Too mainstream for you?
- TobbenTM 13y agoAnd to truly be hipster; iOS only.
- Nerdfest 13y agoNormally iOS-only apps annoy me. In this case though, it is completely appropriate.
- gearoidoc 13y agoGah. Looks like my crappy web server has fallen over. Here's a link to the app on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipster-ceo/id731368826 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipster-ceo/id731368826
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- kenshiro_o 13y agoI get a 503 when trying to access the page :/
- laurihy 13y agoHaha, this is awesome :) We built something similar last weekend in Node Knockout: http://startuplife.io http://startuplife.io. Not nearly as polished or complete as Hipster CEO, but maybe nice for Android users :)
- gearoidoc 13y agoLooks nice, buddy. Well done!
- zhemao 13y agoFrom the top appstore review > the only problem is there's no tutorial, and it take a long time to even launch your product I'm not sure whether or not it's supposed to be a joke. But I found it pretty funny nonetheless.
- gearoidoc 13y agoLife imitating art imitating life? :D