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by awolf 14y ago
Clickable: http://wanderousapp.com
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Ask HN: Judge my Upcoming App's Landing Page
16 points by awolf 14y ago|32 comments
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by awolf 14y ago
Great comment, thanks for making it. There's nothing like having a domain expert explain the tradeoffs using specifics. A while back I wrote a reusable class that draws a single button using three overlapping CAGradientLayers each .5 pixe
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by awolf 14y ago
Uh sure. In that case, go ahead and just substitute every occurrence of "average consumers" with "all consumers" in what I said above. Though I'd be over-generalizing it would still pretty much true. I didn't say that just because a person
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by awolf 14y ago
I think you're kidding yourself. People wanting choice might be why us nerds choose Android but it is not why the average the consumer does. The average consumer does not know better either way whether they would prefer iOS, Android, or
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by awolf 14y ago
Google makes 99% of its money from ads, and it has pretty much always been that way. They're definitely an ad company.
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by awolf 14y ago
From my perspective that amounts to an enormous cut. I understand that you guys are attempting to mitigate the not-getting-paid risk, but I've been able to do that on my own by choosing good clients. My feedback would be: 1) find a way t
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by awolf 14y ago
Take a deep breath. I didn't say they deserve zero of my precious money. I said I didn't want them taking a percentage. Also, it's more of a problem of not being upfront. I suspect based on their wording that they take a percentage but th
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by awolf 14y ago
When I read > Our payment platform requires that clients use escrow for guaranteed timely payment. it makes me think that matchist takes a %-based cut. If this is the case then I want nothing to do with them. And if this is not the ca
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by awolf 14y ago
You mean theme. Not meme.
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by awolf 14y ago
Ah, I see that too. Clearly problematic since there doesn't seem to be a way at all to load up the intended 428 University Ave address. No good. Still though, "really really bad" makes me think you have experienced many other issues. I'm
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by awolf 14y ago
Not in my experience. It's fine here, at least in the city and in Berkeley. No problems aside from a few addresses needing me to add "sf" to them to avoid having them go to different cities (which sometimes also occurred with Google's map d
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by awolf 14y ago
The other side of this coin, people downloading the app to use in their home countries when those countries are un-supported, is much more common . Probably two orders of magnitude more common. Sorry it sucks for you, but I'd make the exac
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by awolf 14y ago
If the problem is that Google Play won't let you download an app from the U.S. store based on where your current ISP is located then: 1) that's dumb* and 2) download Field Trip when you get back to the U.S. The point is developers shouldn't
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by awolf 14y ago
Yikes. I've been working on an iOS based competitor for the past three months. My concept is a bit different. I'm using photo data from public sharing sites and clustering geotag locations to determine scenic or popular points of interest.
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by awolf 14y ago
Do you truly not understand why a developer creating a location-based discovery app - an app that will be judged mostly on the quality its location-based content - might need to launch in limited locations to start? Does this really need to
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by awolf 14y ago
Hey, could you email me? hi@adamawolf.com Us little guys need to stick together ;).
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by awolf 14y ago
I see what you're saying and that may technically be true. I'm not really arguing the legality of the issue though. I'm just talking about the spirit of what the content authors were trying to accomplish which I believe is: have some random
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by awolf 14y ago
I hope that 3Taps follows through. This countersuit may help set a clearer precedent for who owns the data posted on public forums and what third party developers should be allowed to do with it. Earlier this year I was searching for an apa
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by awolf 14y ago
I don't think you should set an alarm ever if you can help it. If the theory is that bi-phasic sleep is ideal and natural for us, you should fall into that pattern naturally. All you need to do is go to sleep around the time that the sun go
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by awolf 14y ago
You can't change the name of an app without submitting an update (anymore).
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by awolf 14y ago
But.. the web is very consistent. Sure, from page to page you might see completely different button graphics, header images, and colors. That's not what is important though. Think about the layout. The spacing. The background boxes behind
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by awolf 14y ago
There are many different types of vitamin D synthesized in our bodies which require sunlight to form. The many varieties of D are used in an enormous amount of different chemical processes in our bodies- many of which are quite complex and
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by awolf 14y ago
On issues where there's a large contingent of passionate haters/supporters on either side, polarizing articles from either extreme drive page views. It's just business. It gets old though. I've come to realize over the past few years that t
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by awolf 14y ago
Yes, GP's closing paragraphs were absolutely baffling to me: >To sum up, I am willing to do a mental test (memory, or IQ, as the smart drug promoter chooses) duel with anyone who claims that smart drugs have helped him become smarter. W
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by awolf 14y ago
Absolute positioning, along with an "auto-resizing" mask for each view defining how it should react to change in the parent view's size. The old way was versatile actually. What it lacked was being able to relate views to anything aside fro
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by awolf 14y ago
1136 means adding 88 screen pixels, which is 44 x 2. 44 is a magic number in iOS development. All navigation bars are 44px tall. All tap targets are recommended to be at least this size. It's very easy for developers to conceptualize 88 mor
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by awolf 14y ago
I've been working with the new layout system Apple added in iOS6 (Auto Layout). You basically define a set of rules like: this sticks to this, this view's height is proportional to this view's height, etc. The SDK attempts to reconcile the
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by awolf 14y ago
A great way to train yourself for the type of lateral position front/back balance needed for all types of boarding (skate, snow, surf) is the Indoboard. http://indoboard.com I'd recommend the longer "Pro" model if you're targeting longboa
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by awolf 14y ago
Yup, its definitely a dicey issue. 5-10 mph on a skateboard is definitely a courteous and safe speed.. The problem is that 12-20 mph is also attainable and unfortunately not everyone is as courteous as you. It's the bad apples that spoil th

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