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by arielm 10y ago
Sounds like whoever wrote it doesn't know too much about the App Store as a consumer or developer. The truth is that as right now, ~78% of apps in the App Store are free to download/play. The remaining ~22% that are paid stack aro
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by arielm 10y ago
The copyright on the site says 2016. The internet has been around for too long for a hardcoded copyright notice...
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by arielm 10y ago
You're forgetting that by the time app.net came up twitter was already "the" platform for this sort of stuff. App.net didn't improve on the model in any way. No awesome features, no additional value. It tried to compete
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by arielm 10y ago
I'd be very curious to hear the kind of questions this raises about the app economy. Do you mean mobile apps? All software? App.net was neither. It tried to be a platform for too many things for not enough people. So I can't see h
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by arielm 10y ago
App.net'S failures, IMO, were not a result of being too early as Dalton suggests. Instead, they failed at building a company. Confusing branding, wrong messaging, and ultimately a product without a need. That's why app.net failed.
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by arielm 10y ago
> risky investments in non-core-competency I disagree with this completely. Atlassian is in the business of collaboration tools. They've done that for developers, but it doesn't mean they're only capable of making develope
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by arielm 10y ago
I don't for a second doubt the ability. I'm a big believer in moving fast, especially when there's such a bit opportunity for engagement and PR. It's just the wording which I found a bit "loose". But I'm a
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by arielm 10y ago
"If you're not moving forward you're moving backward." It's true for any company, and even more true for tech companies. They have to continue to grow for many reasons, including keeping their existing products bett
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by arielm 10y ago
I think this is a neat idea, however I'm pretty sure the boss who'd know what to do with it probably isn't the boss who will get (m)any of these. As a founder who's always open to feedback I want to know if someone think
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by arielm 10y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment, but my gut says this acquisition isn't about Trello becoming a part of Atlassian but rather Atlassian trying to venture away from their set of dev tools. Why, you ask? As a recently public company
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by arielm 10y ago
That statement actually makes me trust them less... I'm not saying they shouldn't move quickly on such opportunity, but don't make it so obvious. I hope it works flawlessly.
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Super Mario Run's pitfall – it's free-to-download not free-to-play(blog.appfigures.com)
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by arielm 10y ago
We've been bootstrapping (successfully) for a few years now and so far almost every instance of using a freelancer failed (some more miserable than other) and cost us money and time. We're in a unique situation where we outsourced
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by arielm 10y ago
Fair point, but that's not what I meant exactly. If he "wants to" + "can", then he should. The argument was against "I can but why should I if companies will", which I think misses the point of contributio
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by arielm 10y ago
I think that's a pretty misguided statement. If you _can_ donate you should. Imagine having to deal with any other platform... The more people (and companies) donate the better we're all off IMO.
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by arielm 10y ago
Just to throw my two cents into the mix. The idea of being able to _query_ a single key in a SQL-like fashion is interesting, but I can't think of a production implementation that would be useful enough. Instead, I'd look at using
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by arielm 10y ago
I completely agree. As someone who uses redis sql heavily I understand both have their use cases and wouldn't want to merge both to begin with. On top of that, this looks like a simple proxy, so it's only making things less effici
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The top SDKs used in games on Google Play(blog.appfigures.com)
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Dissecting the Most Profitable iMessage Apps(blog.appfigures.com)
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Uber prefers to build from scratch rather than use open source(medium.com)
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iTunes Connect release time status page (unofficial)(appfigures.com)
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by arielm 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the goal of the 50 character limit was to keep it possible to have descriptive names that go beyond a word or two, but prevent extreme keyword stuffing (ex. Car racing game - race cars, trucks, bikes, people, animals, t
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Apple threatens to remove 750,000+ apps from the App Store(medium.com)
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Apple threatens more than 750,000 apps(blog.appfigures.com)
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by arielm 10y ago
Yup, they certainly did. Marco made Instapaper but eventually sold it to a different company (Beta Works) which built a team around it and monetized it via the developer api ( https://www.instapaper.com/api ). It was recently
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by arielm 10y ago
I've seen a few platforms attempt to become brokers for such deals in the past but to my knowledge none were incredibly (or, at all) successful... But I do agree that it's a possible "exit" strategy.
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by arielm 10y ago
I believe Instapaper also had a developer product they charged for, though I'm not sure how big of a share that had of revenue.
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Apple gets even deeper into healthcare(technewsworld.com)
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by arielm 10y ago
I think there's still a need for a simple/practical notes app. Apple's built in app has improved tremendously since so it's hard to judge but IMO there's still a big enough market that extends beyond John's fol
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by arielm 10y ago
I like the idea in theory but in reality the number of people who can get a somewhat complex backend running on their own is small and the reward (syncing notes) isn't really that compelling so I think it isn't a great idea... Ins

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