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by flyosity 16y ago
I just tried out the iPhone app and I'm pretty disappointed. Color seems like one of those ideas that would be pretty rad if 1 million people already used it. Because no one has the app yet, if you fire it up it's totally blank. You take a
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by flyosity 16y ago
MAC... the makeup brand? Or the unique identifier for network interfaces? Sorry, the all-caps MAC is a pet peeve of mine. Almost as bad as iTouch.
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by flyosity 16y ago
Great job Kyle! I'm sure this feature has your hands all over it :)
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by flyosity 16y ago
It's worth what others are willing to pay for it. A good (and time-tested) way of determining this price is to start low and then hike the price up steadily until your revenue starts to level off. When you reach this level, this is a decent
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by flyosity 16y ago
It's a good idea, but only if the account is posting information that's worth the fee. Like the author says: MP3 downloads, exclusives, behind-the-scenes stuff will be great for bands, but I think for non-celebrity accounts it might be toug
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by flyosity 16y ago
My iPhone user interface tutorial site that I launched a few weeks ago has already spawned 3 book offers: 2 from O'Reilly, 1 from another publisher. I politely turned them down: I'm fortunate to have a fairly sizable audience, so traditiona
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by flyosity 16y ago
It's the most obvious monetary play for Twitter that I can see. They know everything I like and don't like, people who I trust, topics I discuss, etc. If they could show targeted ads in that top bar I'd probably click on them like crazy.
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by flyosity 16y ago
Yup, totally agree with you. I'd say it takes more talent to build something and sell it to real people than to give PowerPoint presentations to rich people and build things that may never make any money. But that's just my take.
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by flyosity 16y ago
I just built a "business" that is on track to generate about $10k per month (I've made about $5k in the first week). There were some links to it here on Hacker News, but it's a site that sells iPhone design & development tutorials that
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Pictures of 37signals' Porsche race car (DHH is the driver)(flickr.com)
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by flyosity 16y ago
I did, it was a great post. You and Paul are an amazing team, and I feel fortunate to know both you guys. Hope I can make it out to SF soon and stop by the office!
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by flyosity 16y ago
I need to send this to every person who tells me about their amazing iPhone app idea. Angry Birds was a different take/execution on an idea from an old Flash game. Doodle Jump was nearly the SAME app as Super Papi Jump but with new graphics
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by flyosity 16y ago
I wrote Building iOS Apps From Scratch ( http://designthencode.com/scratch ) a 30-page guide for coders just learning Objective-C and Cocoa. Also, for coders looking to get into UI design, I wrote a 70-page guide as well: http://designthen
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by flyosity 16y ago
UI design & development for a small marketing software company. All my friends work here, 20' ceilings, great vibe, foosball, free reign over what I work on, huge windows, I could go on. If I quit then I wouldn't be able to hang out wit
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by flyosity 16y ago
Probably not, that'd involve me quitting a job that I love (that I don't need the money from) and I also wouldn't have time to work on my own projects, which are my favorite thing to do in the world. Of course I don't really need the money,
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by flyosity 16y ago
On a related note, it's really interesting to see how people act when they know they can't motivate someone with money. For example, I used to do client work, but stopped (because I hate it) a few years ago after I sold my design firm. On m
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by flyosity 16y ago
Hey guys, I've been working on this since early Fall. I want to teach designers the basics of Cocoa & iOS development and also teach hackers how to design & execute great-looking UIs in Photoshop. The larger project tutorials are pa
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Show HN: Design Then Code, UI design guides for hackers(designthencode.com)
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by flyosity 16y ago
Sure. - I was offered two technical editor gigs for iPhone development & design books because the main editor of the project found me on Twitter. - I built a friendship with a fellow UI guy that turned into a business relationship and I
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by flyosity 16y ago
I'd pay way, way more than that.
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by flyosity 16y ago
Reminds me of many Android apps: instead of selling the app on the Marketplace the developers opt to include advertisements which cheapen the overall experience.
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by flyosity 16y ago
I suggested that to @stop on Twitter but didn't get a response. In all seriousness though, I want to give Twitter money. It has contributed to my career in ways I'll never be able to fully measure and I feel like I owe Twitter something. Ad
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by flyosity 16y ago
We got a Xoom delivered to the office yesterday and the first-time experience was terrible. It locked up 10 seconds after turning it on and displayed the keyboard and nothing else on the screen. 6 engineers played with it for a few minutes
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by flyosity 16y ago
Great article with a unique viewpoint. Tech blogs, geeks like us and pundits are obsessing over RAM and minute details of the spec sheet while consumers will be playing with the new software, trying on Smart Covers and imagining an iPad 2 a
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by flyosity 16y ago
I had an app for iPad day one as well and I was competing against a hell of a lot more iPad apps than Honeycomb developers are currently competing against. And despite being outside the Top 100 paid apps in the iPad app store, I still made
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by flyosity 16y ago
I imagine your feelings run deep enough re: vendor lock-in that you certainly don't own a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii, right? If you really don't want to be tied to one vendor and you're not also thinking about the biggest "locked-in" platforms on
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by flyosity 16y ago
If it had 1GB I bet Jobs would have actually mentioned it.
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by flyosity 16y ago
If you want that, see this: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/css-layouts/ It was written in 2002. Cross-browser layouts are a "solved problem" :)
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by flyosity 16y ago
There are many CSS books that give concrete examples of various layout types that work in all browsers. Dan Cederholm wrote one of the best: http://simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/
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by flyosity 16y ago
I really try not to bother coworkers unless I'm totally stuck. They're all busy working on their own projects, and taking them out of the zone to help me doesn't seem fair, especially if they don't know the answer either because then I inte

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