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by hboon 15y ago
I don't think you are even paranoid by thinking about this. It's certainly possible. Not only to derail fund-raising, it's also a direct PR hit which can cause slowdowns in expansion and feature development.
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by hboon 15y ago
It looks like a popular sentiment that developing apps for the App store is sharecropping. This pops up every time there is a negative wave of news about the App store. Consider Amazon's Kindle app. I buy books from Amazon and read them on
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by hboon 15y ago
Same experience here, I have 2 year old bugs fixed 2 major version later. Unfortunately the official bug report system is opaque though.
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by hboon 15y ago
Well, that's great. In that case, here's what I think: Always push yourself to do more and better work. Wherever reasonable, do the right thing the first time. I know this is hard, especially in a startup, but there are micro-opportunities
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by hboon 15y ago
Why are you waiting till you are older? Start earlier, learn earlier, learn more, learn faster, fail earlier (when it's less expensive), succeed earlier (and snowball). I wish I started earlier. Way earlier.
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Forrst Stats(kylewritescode.com)
8 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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Google+: One Hell Of A Trojan Horse(techcrunch.com)
5 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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Setting an optimal bid price for Google CPA bids(successfulsoftware.net)
2 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
No, Notch posts frequently about Minecraft. So everyone who follows him but don't care about Minecraft will get those posts. That's the problem. The only solution now is for him to not post Minecraft related material to Public, but to a par
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by hboon 15y ago
He wants a circle that he doesn't have to maintain, which the interested audience "subscribe" to. He can then post Minecraft updates to this. He wouldn't know who they are (even if they add him to a circle, he wouldn't know if they are inte
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by hboon 15y ago
I would never have read about such a story if you haven't shared. Going to get the book. Also sent a teaching friend a link to this. So a big thank you for typing this out and sharing it.
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by hboon 15y ago
I experimented with AdMob and JumpTap over a few months with budgets ranging between low tens to low thousands for each campaign and even for an app that was $5, it basically didn't work. I didn't get good results with Facebook either, but
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by hboon 15y ago
I haven't looked at the exported format, but I assume it's readable. But surely other than that, import tools for other services should do their share of the work.
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Product design at GitHub(warpspire.com)
2 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
I remember Shaquille O'Neal sending @replies on Twitter, thinking it was private when he started out.
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by hboon 15y ago
No, generally Malaysians are definitely way more entrepreneurial than Singaporeans. Singapore has a much more stable environment and state-managed vibe. Over decades, this tends to encourage less entrepreneurial spirit in people here. This
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by hboon 15y ago
I was speaking to a business school class here in Singapore. I asked, “How many people would like to start their own company some day?” In a room of 50 people, only one hand (reluctantly) went up. I live in Singapore, and I wonder which s
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by hboon 15y ago
I know. It was just convenient to reply to a summary :)
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by hboon 15y ago
They could have use #chirp which was their event's name last year.
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by hboon 15y ago
Build, license or buy their way into an ecosystem. Apple's current formidable strength is its ecosystem of content (app+media) and peripheral of hardware devices (iPhone + iPod touch + iPad + Mac). Let's make a bold assumption that a Mac co
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by hboon 15y ago
No snarky tone here, 2 honest questions: If you don't use an Android device as your primary device, how do you know it well enough to develop for it? How do you use your own app?
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by hboon 15y ago
I know you mentioned fast-iteration, but you also mentioned MVP in your earlier comment, so I thought I refer to that. When Apple first released iPhone, there wasn't an SDK publicly available. There wasn't copy and paste. There was also onl
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Feature checklist dysfunction(marco.org)
1 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
Same trick. Configure the proxy to forward to a static page instead of Tomcat.
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by hboon 15y ago
Not really. Apple is the new middlemen (and has been for a while). So more accurately: it's better for everybody but the previous middlemen.
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by hboon 15y ago
Are you still here or travel back regularly? Would love to meet up.
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by hboon 15y ago
Yes, you can be fined, it usually happens at specific places. People just have to be smart when jaywalking. Like everything else.
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by hboon 15y ago
Staffing should be a huge component. Crunchbase[1] lists 3100 employees and yet there's 8000 now. Most of them probably inside sales. Spreading the word out and getting every brick and mortar to hear about and use them is critical now. [1]
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by hboon 15y ago
I can only find relevant documents for Australia[1] and Canada[2] on Apple's site. There are interesting differences: Canada * You can't give out free iPad. * Creative review is required - "Apple Canada requests that you forward an electron
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by hboon 15y ago
Do they run their own CDNs now? Otherwise why would they have major issues hosting images? Scaling Twitter timelines was a way different problem.

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