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by dangero 16y ago
Great post. As your speculation hints, maybe WebOS is something to watch for the future, but at this point, it's probably financially a waste of time to develop for it. A lot of chips have to fall into place before that changes. "Ballmer wi
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by dangero 16y ago
Doh! I did not know that.
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by dangero 16y ago
This article is kind of backwards to me. Dropbox has an API, and Amazon didn't release one with their Cloud Drive. It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage
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by dangero 16y ago
Yeah this is something that happens a lot at WWDC. Every year Apple threatens to check IDs at the door, but they never do that I have seen besides at registration.
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by dangero 16y ago
Wow. I guess I'll be at home this year crying myself to sleep. The quickness at which this sold out prompts a few questions: 1. I guess only small development houses are going this year because most big companies can't get purchasing approv
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by dangero 16y ago
I agree as well. I wasn't suggesting that's all it takes, but rather, that was the missing ingredient for me. I think different people are missing different ingredients to success, and that was the one that I was missing.
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by dangero 16y ago
It's funny you say it's obvious. The whole elastic network concept wasn't obvious to me at all until they explained it. It's somewhat engenius in my opinion, but maybe I'm slow and this idea is obvious. Like I said though, I think the conce
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by dangero 16y ago
Jokes aside, I bounced the concept for colors.com off of some people and they didn't like the idea of automatically sharing pictures they take with people who are nearby. While there is something interesting to this concept, I think it coul
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by dangero 16y ago
Just curious, why would you make it free if you could have continued to make money off of it?
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by dangero 16y ago
Yes I did outsource. It was a huge website with a lot of bells and whistles (this was my first mistake)... At the time, I was a C++ guy trying to get into the web, so I hired an outsourced designer and then hired a php guy in India to imple
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by dangero 16y ago
Yes. This is exactly what I did. Seems to be a common formula.
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by dangero 16y ago
It actually happened immediately. I only have one real competitor, and my product is superior, and I still haven't overtaken them. That's part of what I learned from this. They were making enough that if I just took 5% of their income I cou
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by dangero 16y ago
I've been programming for a long time, so I don't think it had anything to do with productive programming. In fact, each attempt was less work than the previous. The thing that I didn't understand is that being successful in business has ve
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by dangero 16y ago
Like someone mentioned, I don't want to increase my competition, so I'm not going to get into the details, but I'll say that I started doing consulting after work in 2007 to bootstrap my own project. I had absolutely no business background.
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by dangero 16y ago
This article comes off as very whiny. It may decrease competition, but that doesn't mean it creates a monopoly.
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by dangero 16y ago
You should also consider how fast the market is growing too. Maybe it's only 1% of Apple's profits, but that's a lot considering it was non-existent 2 years ago. Perhaps in another 2 years it will be 5% of Apple's profit. That's incredible
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by dangero 16y ago
Exactly. I think it's clear they are trying to make more money off the app store, including free apps, but I'm pretty sure they're already making money off of it.
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by dangero 16y ago
I agree it will be interesting to see what he's being charged with. I'm familiar with the site, and yes, it did embed players into windows that would pop up when you selected what you wanted to watch. I think the interesting part is that th
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by dangero 16y ago
The one point I do agree with is that PG is probably the worst person to ask if there is a bubble in startup tech right now because he has more than almost anyone to gain from high valuations. I understand Paul wants to be unbiased, but he
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by dangero 16y ago
When I said "ecosystem" I meant a modern mobile platform with all the pieces needed to compete in the current market. Yes, they don't have mobile users right now, but they will be able to graft users from other markets that they own. The ph
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by dangero 16y ago
Right. It's totally too little too late. Getting a billion dollars from Microsoft and using their ecosystem may be their best option at this point to get in the game again. Otherwise, they have too much ground to catch up in too little time
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by dangero 16y ago
There was a website that did this around 2002 and it was funny because I'm pretty sure their technique for getting new users was to send false positive spam messages, "Someone has a crush on you. Come to find out who." Really nobody did, bu
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by dangero 16y ago
Quality is definitely lacking compared to the App Store in a number of ways. I wonder if the poor quality stems from the fact that Android is probably not even paying for itself internally at google and they don't properly account for all t
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by dangero 16y ago
I have liked OKCupid's posts in the past, but this one is clearly propaganda. There's a pretty obvious flaw in this argument: "It turns out you are 12.4 times more likely to get married this year if you don't subscribe to Match.com." The da
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by dangero 16y ago
Good point that I hadn't considered.
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by dangero 16y ago
More likely scenario in the next 10 years would be making purchases with your phone by entering a password or pin on the screen of your phone to confirm. The Biometric portion is a little bit sensationalist at this point because the less in
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by dangero 16y ago
The App Store doesn't need high levels of security on your apps. No matter how much you obfuscate, it only takes one smart person to crack it and then your app is on all the bit torrent sites. People will buy from the App Store because they
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by dangero 16y ago
It's an excellent name and I wish I had thought of it. People seem to like the word "bubble" in the app store. Not sure why, but there is definitely a trend there if you look into it.
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by dangero 16y ago
99designs.com lets you host contests like this. It's a great site. I have used it a lot lately.
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by dangero 16y ago
While I don't doubt racket means less lines of code, if I rewrote one of my older c++ projects in c++, I think I could cut down at least half of the code. Maybe more depending on the project. Rewrites have hindsight that you didn't have the

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