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by edawerd 16y ago
ack...sorry guys. should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing that out!
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Selling shovels to Android gold miners(eddiekim.posterous.com)
9 points by edawerd 16y ago|4 comments
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Android Licenser looks to give your app sales a boost(androidandme.com)
1 points by edawerd 16y ago|0 comments
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by edawerd 16y ago
Android apps generally have faster release cycles than their iPhone counterparts largely due to the ease of releasing updates, and tracking custom metrics is a very important part of the release cycle. Glad to see Mixpanel making it easier
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Screenshot + OCR = Copy/Paste for Android phones(droid-life.com)
2 points by edawerd 16y ago|0 comments
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by edawerd 16y ago
And just as a friendly reminder to HN, don't forget to call your mom today!
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by edawerd 16y ago
There isn't. You can use whoever you want for the recipient. We just encourage you to send photos to your mom since today is Mother's Day.
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by edawerd 16y ago
Yet another reason to use Picwing Prints. There's no tech support for opening photos in the mail =)
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by edawerd 16y ago
Actually, we also just released an API so other services can send their photos to Picwing. http://www.picwing.com/apidocs Would love to work with OurDoings. Wanna chat about this sometime?
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by edawerd 16y ago
We were manually putting together the Picwing frames, and drilling holes were involved. The spinning drill bit slipped out of the hole and went into my forearm. A trip to the ER, a few stitches and tetanus shots, and a couple thousand dolla
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by edawerd 16y ago
There definitely are other uses. We've had customers using Picwing to automatically send prints to soldiers deployed in Iraq, convicts in prison, and other interesting use cases. With that said, 95% of our customers sending prints through u
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by edawerd 16y ago
It was actually a really tough decision to make. Having to let go of something you poured blood (literally), sweat and tears over. In the end, the decision was the right one. The business Picwing is in now is profitable, has a much larger m
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by edawerd 16y ago
I'm glad you use Picwing just as we had hoped people would use it!
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by edawerd 17y ago
Scribd is also on the list.
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Posterous (YC S08) founders named among top young tech entrepreneurs in 2010(images.businessweek.com)
51 points by edawerd 17y ago|7 comments
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by edawerd 17y ago
Really well done and inspirational video. This is officially my new anthem.
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by edawerd 17y ago
Even more surprising: For a while I had a bug where the free version had unlimited uses, making it the same as the full version. People were still buying the full version. Didn't notice the bug for months because it barely affected sales.
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by edawerd 17y ago
Just curious, but how did you come up with 4.74 rating? Is there some place that I'm not looking to get that info?
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by edawerd 17y ago
It's most definitely not a typical result. While I did put a lot of hard work into this, I think a lot of luck came my way with placing 3rd in the contest and getting featured.
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by edawerd 17y ago
There definitely were other car locator apps on the market while I was making one, so there was no first mover advantage. I've also seen a few more car locator apps popup after I released mine. So I'm somewhere in the middle.
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by edawerd 17y ago
Totally agree that being featured is not something you can count on. I was shocked myself to find it on the featured list one morning. I just wanted to share some of my figures, and point out that there is potential out there. We hear a lot
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An Android Success Story: $13,000 Monthly App Sales(eddiekim.posterous.com)
68 points by edawerd 17y ago|25 comments
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Android Market grows up, hits 20,000 apps milestone(mobilecrunch.com)
1 points by edawerd 17y ago|0 comments
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by edawerd 17y ago
It's not just you. This is probably my #1 complaint about the Android market that I have. Unlike iTunes, where you can search and browse the entire app store on your computer, with Android you can only browse for apps on your phone. There i
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by edawerd 17y ago
I think the release of the Droid phone has had a significant hand in the sales increase. I've read accounts from other Android developers who didn't make it into the ADC final round who still saw significant sales jumps around the same time
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Android Sales Figures After Placing 3rd in the Android Developer Challenge 2 (eddiekim.posterous.com)
26 points by edawerd 17y ago|10 comments
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by edawerd 17y ago
My app, "Car Locator", nabbed 3rd place in the travel category =)
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Announcing the Winners of Android Developer Challenge 2(android-developers.blogspot.com)
1 points by edawerd 17y ago|1 comments
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by edawerd 17y ago
Car finding apps is obviously not a HUGE market that you would want to start a business around, but there clearly are people out there looking for these kinds of apps. I occasionally get emails from users telling me that they've been using
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by edawerd 17y ago
Google gives one metric: The number of "active installs", which is a percentage of the number of downloads. For the paid app, it's 82%. For the free app, it's 59%. I presume that once the free app expires on a users phone, they uninstall th

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