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by albertogh 16y ago
I'm thinking of something like: Dear user, I cannot let you use <app_name> for free anymore blah blah blah. If you truly cannot afford it, drop me an email and we'll work something out. Sincerely, <my name>. Adding a couple
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Ask HN: To fight or not to fight piracy?
17 points by albertogh 16y ago|32 comments
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by albertogh 16y ago
The server does the "encoding", but the contents are stored on the local device (among other things, this method provides offline access almost "for free"). Think of it just like a proxy with a filter. Since I have complete control over the
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by albertogh 16y ago
Thank you so much, I'm really happy to know it looks great to you. I guess the key difference between Printul and the big players is that they are (or will be, in the case of Flipboard) monetizing via ads, while I monetize selling the apps
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Show HN: Printful, my latest iPhone/iPad app
6 points by albertogh 16y ago|6 comments
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by albertogh 16y ago
I guess I'm biased because I wrote Latitudie :). I haven't really had time to test the Google Latitude app, since I've been setting up a bunch of servers for my next project for the whole day, so I can't tell you exactly the differences bet
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by albertogh 16y ago
I liked the most upvoted comment on Reddit: "Latitudie is still better; fun to see google playing catchup. :)" Of course, I'm biased.
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by albertogh 16y ago
Forgot to add something about those reviews. I guess you looked at the reviews for US App Store which (definitely, those aren't from Spain - there 800 review scores for this app in there), obviously, are going to be terrible for an app whic
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by albertogh 16y ago
Sorry about that. It should work fine (but a bit slowly) now. I had to stop all the other services on that machine to keep up with the traffic. My blog is in a virtual machine inside a low powered HTPC and this link is #1 here on HN and top
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by albertogh 16y ago
App developer here. Is an application which turns in a small profit, so I don't look too much at it. On the other hand, Postfix wasn't running on that machine (I had been doing some testing three weeks ago and forgot to enable it again), so
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by albertogh 16y ago
Not really. I got the initial idea from readability, but I developed my own algorithm for text and image extraction using Python and lxml.
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by albertogh 16y ago
The link is giving me a database error, but printful mirrored the text before it went down. Check http://printful.com/VZQA Disclaimer: printful is a side project of mine