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by chubs 14y ago
Sounds like they haven't really broken apple's DRM - Zeusmos relies on getting a developer profile for your phone's UDID and re-signing the apps under that dev profile, which means the apps will expire in a year or so. And Kuaiyong relies o
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by chubs 14y ago
Glad to hear bcrypt is still safe; that's what i use for my apps.
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by chubs 14y ago
Can you say how you get vim bindings on xcode?
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by chubs 14y ago
Seems to me like they competed with the giant (intel) on its own turf (x86) and failed, rather than skating to where the puck was going to be (ARM).
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by chubs 14y ago
It's quite simple: most iPhone apps just leave the GPS turned on 100% of the time when in the background, as it's complicated to do otherwise (or you can use the borderline-useless 'significant change' cell-tower location api's). Android gi
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by chubs 14y ago
Simple: Because googlers all hate IDE's and use vim.
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by chubs 14y ago
Here's what i'd do if i was in your situation: find a local school that's interested, and volunteer some time teaching programming to kids. Maybe teach them how to make iphone games - they'd love that :) Sorry to hear you're in a funk, we a
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by chubs 14y ago
You have to keep in mind that, traditionally, app sales basically halve week on week for the first month or so, and then hit a plateau. You basically make all your money in the first month (or two, if youre really lucky). So, if i was in th
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by chubs 14y ago
I hope they read this (not sure if they will), but: Ads! I've a friend who gets approx $4/user/year from a non-game mobile app from ads through mobclix. I think it's a fair assumption that you'd get even more ad impressions on a game (as pe
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by chubs 14y ago
Thanks, great site!
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by chubs 14y ago
Please: let me buy high quality 256k mp3's of all this to put on my ipod. If i could buy enough so that i'd never notice repeated tracks, i'd love it.
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by chubs 14y ago
I loved this bit: "Leadership requires empathy, an ability to put yourself in your subordinate’s shoes"
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by chubs 14y ago
I love the idea of the printed book being sent out each quarter - that's very cool! Scrapbookers would love that.
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by chubs 14y ago
You saying that he simply put too high a payrate on his fake ad and that's why the glut of responses?
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by chubs 14y ago
There really seems to be a meme at the moment for stories about how difficult it is to make money on the iOS / Mac app store. Ever since the sparrow acquisition, it seems like every day there's another similar story on the front page of HN
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by chubs 14y ago
I can attest to doing the same. Now i'm on jekyll+S3 and haven't looked back - it's great! Having said that, the jekyll posterous image exporter i couldn't get to work. But i don't post many photos so that didn't worry me.
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by chubs 14y ago
Trying to get it to recognise a keyboard! Seriously i've tried 3.
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by chubs 14y ago
Not in my experience. I can't sell any of my used stuff on ebay these days, however years ago it used to be great. These days i basically have to throw stuff out! Things i've tried to move: speakers, leather jackets, fridges- nobody wants
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by chubs 14y ago
I seriously can not wait until they either leave beta, or stripe comes to australia. The race is on!
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by chubs 14y ago
I was just thinking that yesterday: lots of small android/allwinner A10 based RPI competitors coming out, eg this one which i really want, after failing miserably at getting my rpi to do anything useful: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/ak802-
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by chubs 14y ago
In their defence: * Who uses a free file sending service for critical docs? * The only mention of 'secure' on their homepage has (to my mind) more of an implication of "safe and secure eg your file won't be lost" rather than "secure from ha
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by chubs 14y ago
I'd love to get a rough idea where australia fits on their timeline.
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by chubs 14y ago
That checks out with my experience. Typically an app will go from 'in review' to 'processing for the app store' in about 15 mins.
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by chubs 14y ago
You know, i was just wondering if the bing team had noticed a spike in traffic as people switch their default searchers today? DDG as well, i guess. I'd love to see gabriel weinberg do a write-up about his stats for today :)
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by chubs 14y ago
Can you please tell us about your product where you got 300 people on you pre-launch list? How you promoted it - simply through blogging? I"m doing pretty much the same thing right now and wondering how to attract people to my landing pages
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by chubs 14y ago
I had a quick look at the screenshots, looks like a great idea to me. What if you made a social bent to it? Like 'words with friends' but 'stories with friends' ? Eg, the app comes up with a random first paragraph, then you have to write a
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by chubs 14y ago
Good point. I think i'll do just that.
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by chubs 14y ago
Thanks for your response. I've considered that approach - it's kind of like taking the moral high ground, isn't it? Which is great. However, i think i could really hit a nerve in the marketplace with people who use X but really hate it , a
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Ask HN: How far can you go when disparaging a competitor in your marketing copy?
2 points by chubs 14y ago|6 comments
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by chubs 14y ago
Please - you've got my attention with:"Here we are just a few months in, able to pay ourselves and go full time on it". Tell us more about it! What are you doing, how did you market it, how did you find customers, please!

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