ericflo

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   by ericflo 15y ago

   So your point is that it's hard until you spend a year working with callback-based JavaScript, and then it becomes easy and intuitive? A year of investment may as well be an eternity for most.
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   by ericflo 15y ago

   I don't understand the relevance, can you please provide some context?
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   by ericflo 15y ago

   It's a fixed monthly rate, so you're free to sell apps and not owe us a percentage, or anything like that.
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   by ericflo 15y ago

   Every developer submits to the app store using their own id, not ours.
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   by ericflo 15y ago

   It's both an SDK and a web service. Clutch gives you some JavaScript primitives and iOS code to help integrate some HTML-based content areas into your app in a very seamless way. Whenever a user opens your app, Clutch checks for (and down
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   by ericflo 15y ago

   First, thanks for the compliment! However about the idea that people can easily build this themselves, I'm not quite convinced. I think it's possible to build 70% of the solution in a short amount of time, but that last 30% is so very fidd
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   by ericflo 15y ago

   This really was our first stab at it--I'd love to talk more with you about this. You can probably change our mind about the direction we've gone with the pricing. Please e-mail me ericflo at clutch dot io.
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   by ericflo 15y ago

   I just wrote up a few thoughts about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3800522
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   by ericflo 15y ago

   There are two main differences: syncing of code, and philosophy. The main tangible difference is that we enable you to push out incremental updates to your app, immediately. And to do so in a way that your app feels completely native. Pho
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    Yes, "monthly users" means end users. However, like you pointed out, we can't differentiate between a user and a device. Maybe our marketing should say "monthly active devices." In any case, this is good feedback for us to hear, because
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    Thanks! I wish there were a better word. We actually struggle with this because when we initially explain the concept, people tend to gravitate towards thinking of it like PhoneGap. So, I wish a more descriptive word existed for what we'
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    Thanks! It's hard to say how long we've been working on it because it evolved out of our last project. We split it out towards the end of last year and we've been in private beta for a few months working out the kinks.
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    We are planning an Android release. You will be able to re-use most or all of your web portions, which we're really excited about. Our bet is that today this will help some iOS developers enough to use, and when we release Android it wi
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    Whoops! That video is in the process of being updated, and that's one of the things that's being changed. I'll admit that I forgot about that detail, which was careless before showing HN :(
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    That's a valid point, and one we've actually thought about a decent amount. If we find anyone doing this, we will take steps on our end to make sure they stop. In the end, it's Apple's decision whether to ban a developer or not, no matter
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    I'm not aware of any central place where you can go to learn more about all of the apps. But in the case of Facebook you can find out more how they do it here: * Go to https://apps.facebook.com/feightlive/ * Go to the f8 | Developer tab *
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    We originally launched an app called "Can'tWait!" and we ended up having a really hard time iterating fast on the product after it was launched. Little-by-little over the course of several months, we ended up building all of this syncing a
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    Show HN: Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly(clutch.io)

    290 points by ericflo 15y ago|88 comments
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    That would require setting down the pitchforks.
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    [citation needed]
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    Wow, what a hostile response.
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    Agreed--I'd love to see this as well.
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    Maybe this would be a good question for a poll. We pay ourselves each 40k/year.
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    I didn't get a chance to see this at PyCon, but wow, this video really helped me understand some of the fundamentals of PyPy. (For example, I had no idea it didn't have a parser, and instead only acts on the intermediate representation of
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    "People talk about pivoting all the time now, but if something isn’t working after four months, we’ll just shoot it in the head and start again" - Kevin Rose, last April http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/milk-kevin-roses-new-compan... In f
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    Why? I would expect any company to suspend the account of someone hacking them.
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    I fail to see what GitHub did wrong here. They were attacked, they suspended the account doing the hacking, and they fixed the problem. Then, they blogged about it, explaining in detail what happened. Apparently they weren't quite revere
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    His statement is factual, I see no veiled complaint in the text you've quoted.
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    I'm not so sure. People sure look silly (well crazy, really) when they talk into a bluetooth headset walking down the street.
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    by ericflo 15y ago

    That's an extremely crude filter. A lot of the best distributed system stuff is built on the JVM. Too many to name, but I'll name one anyway: Zookeeper