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by dpcan 15y ago
Well, they acted like kids on the show, yes, but also note that Alex and Kevin worked together for years before that on The Screensavers. These guys were definitely kids together doing this stuff, and I can understand how they must feel li
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by dpcan 15y ago
Exactly. If Facebook wastes their time and resources building and supporting a full-fledged BROWSER, they would be out of their mind. A Toolbar makes perfect sense. The same way there's a new phone out there with a Facebook button right on
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by dpcan 15y ago
A lot of Android Apps look nasty because they were created by individuals with the intent to solve a problem, and that problem is rarely - that Android Apps look bad. Then, when they have solved the problem, why not put it in the Market. An
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by dpcan 15y ago
I really am not a fan of these "timed" challenges. Try this instead: create an awesome "polished" game and try to make your first $100 in November, instead of $1 in October. Also, if you release an unpolished game in October, you will maybe
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by dpcan 15y ago
With Monkey, when you build, it actually creates the native code for you right on your own computer, so if you want to add Game Center, or something to that affect, you could actually open the code in XCode and do what you need to do, no li
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by dpcan 15y ago
If you are not familiar with Obj-C, I would recommend Monkey or CoronaSDK instead. You'll be off and writing games in no time. Monkey has export to Flash AND HTML5 capabilities, as well as Android and iOS http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/
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by dpcan 15y ago
I too have found myself watching videos of apps (particluarly games) before buying now if they don't have a free version. I was actually considering doing an experiment where I removed some of my free versions of apps from the Market and pu
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by dpcan 15y ago
It's about being found in the app stores. That's where people look for stuff on their phones, that's where you need to come up if you have something you want on someone's phone. Of course there is a lot of down-side to this, but it is what
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by dpcan 15y ago
This is how it's been since software first existed. Shareware. When the Internet came along it was free software with a Buy Now button that took you to the website where you would purchase the full version or a license key. I thought this
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by dpcan 15y ago
This seems like such a backwards way to address the actual shortcomings of the Chrome Web Store. They can add features like this all day, but it doesn't fix the fact that they haven't improved the actual Chrome Web Store enough to make deve
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by dpcan 15y ago
They have DSs too :) No 3DS, but they haven't seen one yet, so who knows, maybe this Christmas things will change.
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by dpcan 15y ago
Market it against the Nintendo DS. I bought iPod Touches for my 2 oldest kids and my wife last Christmas. So, this year, instead of buying $30-$40 games, they have been able to buy several $2 games throughout each month. It's been a blast,
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by dpcan 15y ago
I'm with everyone else here. No way I'd pay $23 per month for 1 t-shirt of a company I don't know and probably who's services I don't even use. However, I may not be in your demographic at all. I haven't bought a shirt in years. I get shi
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by dpcan 15y ago
If you lower it to $4.99 people will tell you it's too expensive. If you make it free, people will complain that there isn't a paid version or that it doesn't do X/Y/etc Do not let a few people decide if you should lower your price. If you
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by dpcan 15y ago
Boring ;) I think there's a good reason many people watch The Daily Show instead of the evening news. Or TMZ over Entertainment Tonight. Or TechCrunch instead of NY Times Bits Blog ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/ ) What you want is out th
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by dpcan 15y ago
This will also depend on the type of job. Programmers - sure, lots of different things work. We're a weird breed. But your secretary HAS to be there every day from 8-5. Your phone and email customer support service people HAVE to be ther
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by dpcan 15y ago
I have twitter's new UI open in a tab all day long. I click the "X new tweets" button abou 20 times a day. I read tweets, checkout other twitterer's feeds, and it never ever slows down for me. When I read about this guy seeing over a minut
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by dpcan 15y ago
Well, I think tripple X is probably the way most people will "say" it, if it's ever actually "said" - if you know what I mean. When's the last time someone told you to go to a porn site in plain English, out loud, anywhere?
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by dpcan 15y ago
Exactly what I came here to say. I don't use their hosting because I've tried it and it's painfully slow and I have had it go down intermittently for a number of clients who I know use it still. I've had to talk with their support several
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by dpcan 15y ago
As I thought about it a little more, I came to this conclusion as well. It could just be a young single-person's motivation, certainly. I had kids before I even had a chance to know what it was like to be a young single guy out of college,
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by dpcan 15y ago
Is it? there are no other factors?
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by dpcan 15y ago
"[..] we were really feeling the pressure to start making money, particularly since all our friends had found jobs and were earning a good income. The social stigma surrounding being 'unemployed' really sucked [...]" Their motivation to mak
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by dpcan 15y ago
This could work :) I usually say, let's search the app store for your idea ... Just to see what comes up. 12 pages of the same idea later... Moving on to other conversations.
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by dpcan 15y ago
There are so many more factors than just rank alone. Such as competition, search results, web exposure, sales, and more. They also have a lot of those "talking" apps that people with kids gobble up at one point or another once they have a
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by dpcan 15y ago
You are right, I read that they finished the graphics first but read right over the part where they hired someone. So, also interestingly, they found the process of having graphics designed easier than finding programmers. I've found it ve
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by dpcan 15y ago
Maybe to get people to subscribe to their blog or follow them with an RSS feed :)
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by dpcan 15y ago
The most interesting part to me was that they are designers who considered the programming to be the most important part. As a programmer, I find the design to be the most important part. The perspectives are very interesting. From a progr
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by dpcan 15y ago
That's not true. Now you can develop for Android AND iOS with Corona, plus, you can use their Native UI API to create actual apps with Corona, not just games: http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/native-ui Check out their showcase:
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by dpcan 15y ago
Whatever. Life is way too short for some of us. Sign up for the Corona SDK and just have fun. Creating good apps has nothing to do with the tools you use, it is how you use them ... And more importantly than that, knowing how to design, po
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by dpcan 15y ago
I'm just saying that you may have made a monster mistake by posting your numbers. One of our games was making very similar numbers for about 4 months, then a competitor, a talented college kid, decided he would make a game really similar to

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