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by coryl 14y ago
Do your research, find out the name of cofounder or CEO and get their email. Here's what I learned after emailing several CEOs that totally outclass/outrank me: they don't remember, they don't care. If they like you, they will reply or forw
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This is really just a result of app store architecture. Being on a top grossing or top download list simply perpetuates an increase in your download numbers and consequently your placement on the ranking.
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Read Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness, goes through the story of Zappos development and ethos. Seems exactly like what you want to replicate.
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I suppose the issue preventing the existence of such a marketplace is fraud (bad/misleading information). But many publishers don't seem to have a problem selling BS anyways right?
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They'll make it back by ripping you off on your data plans. (Canada)
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For me: - Really good articles and content posted and upvoted. - Good quality comments and lots of expertise from individuals from every sector of tech. - No trolls / bs comments like most anonymous forums (ok, a few, but they get downvoted
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I dunno, depends who you outsource to. I found a great Objective-C programmer in Pakistan who did ~100 hours @ $15/hour.
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1) Apple takes a 30% cut of your price. 2) What you can make hugely varies. $0-$500k+/day for serious games. It is very skewed towards top earners. 3) You'll probably have an easier time selling and developing on iOS.
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If you do decide to sell, know that you can shop it around on places like dnforum.com You may get better offers.
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He could need it to pay out people, to receive payments from ad networks/partners, etc. I know I definitely need it to pay contractors who live in Asia or Europe and only have Paypal (or otherwise is easier than doing a bank wire).
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by coryl 14y ago
Not sure I agree with you, copyright laws were created with a profit motive - to protect author's work from being stolen or inappropriately used. Without copyrights, what incentive does an author have to produce new work? Someone will take
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I suspect there are localized versions of these already out there. As a Canadian, we have ePost.ca which is run by the government. Basically a digital mailbox for paying bills.
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Do you not make money from the app? Or other apps? You can always sell the source to someone and let them maintain it.
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I'd guess that its unlikely anyone can pick out the next Steve Jobs. I don't think even Steve Jobs could have predicted how successful he would have been. There's just no consistent or solid enough data that can help in predicting how succe
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If its about luck, than why do we see the same familiar faces deep into WSOP finals? Luck is only relevant if you're playing for the short run. Professionals generally make decisions that favor them in the long run against natural statistic
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Looks like you have a sizable spanish/latin following, anyon particular reason you know why your distribution been skewed towards those countries? Products like these tend to be very novel as users will play once and never come back. How do
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by coryl 14y ago
Assuming it'll only take XX days to get it done.
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HTML + CSS + Javascript are suggested because they are the core languages websites use for visual display and interactivity. After that, PHP + MySQL is fairly popular choice for beginning web programmers. But the point isn't just to "learn"
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What client is going to pay $7-10k for weekend dev's work and "fun"? Who fixes the inevitable bugs afterwards? People pay developers to work on their ideas to exact spec, not to experiment and hack. You're looking at the market from the sup
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Actually, being Canadian, I do watch them on TV :) I've also watched all of the UK Dragon's Den one summer.
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Love the show, great insight from a VC perspective as well. You may be able to watch the episode here: http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank
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If we look at the basic economics, I think the jobs demanded is growing faster than talent supplied. Talent also takes a long time to harness and develop. Thus, it may technically be a developer's market forever.
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Most people can't write well because they don't have the hours of practice underneath them. Sounds familiar...
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by coryl 14y ago
You know how as a kid, you were taught "don't believe everything you see on TV"? Context is important. Video clips rarely tell the full story.
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Startups that get funded are startups that have a high potential to make money, period. Be building the next Facebook, and nobody cares how old you are, or where you're from. Connections are nice, but at the end of the day VCs don't invest
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http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html Location matters, that's why people want to be in the US/Canada.
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Or integrate in-app purchases, which is more likely to generate a conversion!
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Ask HN: Laptop coders, your setup?
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Perhaps one of the reasons PayPal is being more service conscious is they finally have competition encroaching on their territory like Stripe + Square. I guess its never too late to stop sucking though.
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If you're really at the point where you want to tell your customer to fuck off, than you probably don't care for their business anymore. So why not offer them a refund, say "we're sorry we couldn't accommodate your business needs", and end

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