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by arn 16y ago
Oh, there's certainly a kill switch. Jobs admitted to it during an interview, but it hasn't been used. The closest App Store comparison is probably Abuse (source code released into public domain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_(video_
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by arn 16y ago
I'm not sure if you were just using "digg" and "newsvine" as examples, or if you think they actually were aiming to be competitors. Reddit launched in 2005. Newsvine launched in 2006. The Reddit founders also didn't know Digg existed when
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by arn 16y ago
not really. stuff gets taken down off the App Store all the time due to legal issues and obvious copyright infringement. the apps get removed (you can't download them anymore), but anyone who has downloaded it can still use their copy.
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by arn 16y ago
The timing of this is way way off. MTV stopped being a music station well before internet piracy. And over a decade before YouTube.
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by arn 16y ago
Depends on the scale you are talking about. Can you create a one man startup and sustain yourself for $1000/mo? Sure. Can you create YouTube, FaceBook, Google for the same? No, you really can't. And if you are shooting for someone in betw
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by arn 16y ago
AppShopper's app hit the #9 spot of overall free and was around 150,000 downloads in a day. This was September 2010. These number ranges are moving targets as more people are buying iOS devices. So there's Top Paid and Top Free lists. Top
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by arn 16y ago
not necessarily. startup founder with any number of employees may be more likely to read the site than his/her employees.
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by arn 16y ago
it's just a caching issue - just reload the page, and it works.
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by arn 16y ago
Seems nice, and I may use it in the future. Alternatively, I tend to just tell people to install this app and email it to me. http://appshopper.com/utilities/ad-hoc-helper
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by arn 16y ago
really? any more details on this? We always hear stories about people being happy about quitting their job and how they should have done it earlier. What did you quit for?
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by arn 16y ago
to add my two cents into this. This is my issue with 3D movies. I find it very distracting. A good for instance is that I recently saw Green Hornet in 3D -- not by choice entirely, since they weren't showing a 2D version. As an example,
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by arn 16y ago
It used to be a small obscure text link labeled "Read". This is actually a big improvement (though certainly not ideal). http://web.archive.org/web/20091028095024/http://www.engadge...
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by arn 16y ago
Can you also get ~300 million pages views/month and 11.6 million uniques/month in 5 minutes? http://www.quantcast.com/p-75z9nhQwNH4Ek#traffic
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by arn 16y ago
I'll add to the list my favorite service I don't ever hear talked about. SpamStopsHere: http://www.greenviewdata.com/spamstopshere/index.php The killer feature for me is a very low false positive rate. Very few legitimate emails get blo
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by arn 16y ago
Not sure how many emails you send a day, but I signed up for sendgrid almost immediately after I learned it existed. ISPs have lots of arbitrary policies. For periods of time my emails have been blocked from AOL and AT&T accounts, whic
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by arn 16y ago
fwiw, Phil Schiller was responsible for the scroll wheel on the iPod http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/1... The idea for the scroll wheel was suggested by Apple's head of marketing, Phil Schiller, who in an early
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by arn 16y ago
I would accept that definition. But I can't tell if the owners of squishable have accomplished that.
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by arn 16y ago
Find a name. Pick a name. Commit. I can't imagine launching with a "plan on changing it later" name. We're on the internet. Your name is a huge part of your product. Changing a name later is possibly one of the most disruptive things you
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by arn 16y ago
"...You probably never heard of them..." Define "win" :)
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by arn 16y ago
Hmm... individuals or small groups who have made over $1 million lately. * Pocket God - 2 people * Doodle Jump - 2 people * Minecraft - 1 person (?) If you are a great programmer, your best bet is to sell your own apps. The app ecosystem h
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by arn 16y ago
two people multiplayer on device.
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by arn 16y ago
I run 3 sites which could be thought of as startups (each has employees). 3 is too many. :) I definitely feel overextended and that things are progressing slower than they ideally would if I had full time commitment to any one.
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by arn 16y ago
That's interesting. Can you be more specific what config you moved from and to? Were you on a SCSI RAID before? And are you on a single SSD or RAID config?
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by arn 16y ago
I think when seeking this advice, you need to be aware of what people think will make them happy vs. finding people that are actually happy. It's easy to spout off things that in your head "will make you happy" -- but don't listen to thos
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by arn 16y ago
Yep, as someone mentioned, Amazon offers a lot of this. You should also look at Diapers.com and Soap.com which was recently acquired by Amazon. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/06/amazon-to-buy-diap...
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by arn 16y ago
I think you'll find two audiences. There are those who are looking to flip domain names and pick up a lot of them to resell, then there are those who buy domains more defensively to try to figure out the best domain name for their ideas.
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by arn 16y ago
AppShopper.com is looking for a full time PHP/MySQL developer (Remote employees welcome). It will cover both backend/frontend maintenance as well as new features. We are a very popular App Store index and price tracker and are growing in p
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by arn 16y ago
hah. I thought myresolutionis.com would return by screen rez (2560x1600). :)
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by arn 16y ago
So very interesting is that he still had Google control panel control of Torrent-finder.com even after it had been seized, so he could redirect searches to .info. This could be an actual issue. What if instead of getting his .com seized, h
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by arn 16y ago
HP is trying to break into it, with the acquisition of Palm.

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