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by diziet 13y ago
New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/technology/facebook-leads-...
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by diziet 13y ago
From interacting with Vishen before a bit, I would say he is doing whatever he is interested in doing in the company. It's not quite running Google level opportunity, but still quite something.
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by diziet 13y ago
Well, given that Clash of Clans has been around and in the top 3~ grossing consistently for the last year, and Candy Crush has been at #1 for a year and a half, and neither show any substantial signs of slowing down and are improving on gam
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by diziet 13y ago
Yep, creating an awesome Bible app is doable. Getting people to download and use it, that's the hard part!
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by diziet 13y ago
We've also got an ordering based on number of ratings: https://sensortower.com/ios/leaderboard/estimated-app-worth/... With the Bible app, I was surprised too when it showed up -- but the app has over 30
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by diziet 13y ago
Part of the reason for that is that I didn't want people gaming the algorithm. The things it looks at are user numbers, revenue estimates (very good here~) and internationalization when computing the worth.
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Show HN: Apps ranked by valuation(sensortower.com)
41 points by diziet 13y ago|22 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
You can bypass the paywall by searching for the article name on google and clicking through (or modifying your referrer)
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by diziet 13y ago
3d printing will truly be consumer ready when I could take out my phone and 'scan' the broken alarm clock housing, and within 10 minutes of tweaking with relatively easy to use software be able to print a replacement. Until then,
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by diziet 13y ago
There is an interesting dynamic going on with YC/Angelpad/other incubators or startups 'in the know' that makes some of these things not apply. The kind of founders that are building tech companies are technically capabl
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by diziet 13y ago
Because what matters for getting into space / orbit is velocity to achieve orbit. An object without that velocity will simply fall down to earth instead of orbiting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit
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by diziet 13y ago
I can remember a number of marketplaces, including ebay and a number of forum/bulletin board based sites promoting certain postings to have a different border, background color, etc. I do not think that applying the same kind of filter
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by diziet 13y ago
Hope to see you climbing (in Dogpatch?)
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by diziet 13y ago
Said app in question: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/yeah_us/app/pumped_bmx/527173...
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Who Can Name the Bigger Number?(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
The combination of Octopress being built on top of Jekyll and the fact that Octopress is much faster/easier to jump into and do things with makes Octopress more hacker friendly in the "get things done" hacking way.
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by diziet 13y ago
Octopress, on the other hand, is for hackers.
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Customer Satisfaction Rankings For All 93 High-Volume Investors(spaceshiptimemachine.com)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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IPhone & iPad App Marketing Checklist(sensortower.com)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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How Localizing Your Apps Can Double Your Downloads(blog.sensortower.com)
4 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
Doesn't seem to happen with the latest self-updated version of dropbox and 10.8.4 to such an extreme, on a retina MBP. I get 15 extra minutes.
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Twitch.tv Issues Global Password Reset(blog.twitch.tv)
5 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
This is part of the reason I'd started Sensor Tower, as the app store is very hard to succeed in from the developer's perspective.
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Ways You Can Help The Electronic Frontier Foundation(eff.org)
12 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
The interesting thing is that even if Tim Cook were to spend every working hour of his time doing $610,000 coffee, he would earn Apple only about one billion dollars -- under 1% of Apple's yearly revenue.
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by diziet 13y ago
It's really cool to see The Onion hosting on github and using Octopress for blogging.
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by diziet 14y ago
Also check out https://appstorerankings.net for App Store Optimization services. The model Trevor used for DL estimation is pretty good, actually.
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by diziet 14y ago
Aha. It'd also be nice to know the sample size along with the confidence interval. For conversion, I'd suggest to stop asking for a first name and last name (and possibly even the password field).
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by diziet 14y ago
Strangely enough your current copy on the page features the old version!
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by diziet 14y ago
I'd recommend using Pipedrive https://www.pipedrive.com/en/features It is straightforward to use and lets you separate different flows and stages.

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