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by chubs 15y ago
So far, i've just been putting my apps on the app store with no promotion. It's going alright, making ~$100/day. For my next app, since i'm putting a bit more effort into it, so i'm going to match that with more effort into promoting it too
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by chubs 15y ago
I can totally relate to this article: as a frequent launcher of iOS apps, i'm always open to suggestions for how to promote them. At the moment my (admittedly very vanilla) strategy is: * Set up a promo-page at www.blahapp.com * Use adwords
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by chubs 15y ago
You're under pressure. Stay there - it's right where you're meant to be. This pressure will either crush you, or change your character from coal into diamond. Remember, even if your friends are dicks and your dad is abusive, you've got doze
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by chubs 15y ago
My first thought when reading was 'wow, he must be confident about how open to criticism the bosses at google are, to be posting this'. And now i've come back a few hours later to find his post has been removed... Let's hope he was right wh
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by chubs 15y ago
Heroku for anything dynamic, and S3 for anything static. If at all possible, i try to make my sites static.
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by chubs 15y ago
First cab off the rank is affordable laser cutting. I've got several projects i'd love to do once that becomes feasible. Then CNC mills, and 3d printing... the future is bright!
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by chubs 15y ago
Looks pretty sweet. Markdown really is coming into a golden age, its everywhere: git readmes, stackoverflow posts, i'm even using it to write my presentations in these days! Love it :)
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by chubs 15y ago
Don't give up hope buddy: have you tried making a few iphone or android apps? Your english is perfect so i assume you could make apps for the english speaking market, it really could change your life.
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by chubs 15y ago
Well, at the moment i can't pin it down to EC2, but it's the only thing i can imagine it'd be. The network/cpu/memory usage is all healthy, and there's nothing in the kernel log, so that's what i'm guessing is the cause. Although i may be w
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by chubs 15y ago
They beat me to it! I've only gotten to 500k on EC2, however i believe there's some trickery in their firewalls / NAT which is holding me back... If anyone's interested in the gory details, see: http://splinter.com.au/tag/comet
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by chubs 15y ago
Thanks for your brutal honesty. It's difficult, but that's why its valuable. Build your character, it'll serve you well. Overlap your skills when learning new stuff: Eg it seems you're great at photography, so make a simple rails photo slid
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by chubs 15y ago
You're spot on. I think a lot of people can't wrap their head around node: It's all about scaling horizontally (lots of processes, many servers) rather than vertically (one process with lots of threads on one big server). Once you realise t
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by chubs 15y ago
I find it really hard, because nobody in this career has kids! Very few have wives, i have a suspicion that most are single. So when you put family first, it really is a culture clash. My solution is to try and become self employed. I hope
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Building People(splinter.com.au)
1 points by chubs 15y ago|0 comments
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by chubs 15y ago
You, sir, are a linchpin. If all teachers had your passion, what a future we'd have. Keep it up.
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by chubs 15y ago
If you were approaching me, a dozen 'letter of intents' as described above would certainly grab my attention. It proves 3 things: * You're serious * You're a good salesman * There's a market for your idea
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by chubs 15y ago
That was a hilarious twist in the end. I'm just like you except for the last paragraph... maybe i'll start listening to people's ideas again :)
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by chubs 15y ago
What a beautiful story of her interaction with that little girl. I hope i'm like that with my daughter when she's that age :)
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by chubs 15y ago
"It would take about six weeks, and the deliverables included an iPhone app, an iPad app, a web application (both backend and frontend), and two Mac applications. It was very interesting, and I managed to get everything done" Simply: wow. Y
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by chubs 15y ago
Make a bunch of useful assets, and give them away on her site. Eg like people have done with free tab bar icons for iphone apps. Could be worth a try?
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by chubs 15y ago
I'm a big fan of these guys - i just send a support question and got a response in 4 minutes!
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by chubs 15y ago
You're welcome - i really hope you get something out of reading through the source. I used to be a ruby guy before this too, so i think you should find the transition not too difficult. Good luck.
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by chubs 15y ago
Here's my advice, on a slightly different note to the others: Learn how to make iOS apps, and make a dozen or so of them (obviously, make them smallish apps). Charge $1 each, and have a free/lite version of each app too. This will teach you
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by chubs 15y ago
Keep in mind that the guys at rovio made 51 other games before they came up with the hit that was angry birds. The lesson is to keep trying until you have a hit :) I've got 6 apps out there, and for the life of me i can't pinpoint which one
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Show HN: I made an open source iOS HN reader
5 points by chubs 15y ago|2 comments
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by chubs 15y ago
To make a break from all the (constructive) criticism here: Good on you! The world needs another open source browser to compete with firefox. It'd be awesome if you completed one. I know its a daunting task, but hey imagine if you finished
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by chubs 15y ago
I think personality comes from nature, but character comes (initially) from nurture.
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by chubs 15y ago
In all apps i've worked on, passing dates around as 'seconds since 1970' has made date parsing on ios effortless - you may want to try that.
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by chubs 15y ago
I feel this way every time i finish and 'ship' a project, especially when submitting an app to the app store. I'm like 'this'll never get approved, its rubbish, who'd want to buy it, stick to your day job...' But, i submit anyway, and peopl
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by chubs 15y ago
Looks fantastic! Great work. Until i read "the library depends on ARC for memory management" - unfortunately that'll rule out its use for me :( Having said that, i look forward to one-day-when i get to use this in an ARC app :)

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