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by jwwest 14y ago
Theres a lot of 'sayers' in the world: armchair quarterbacks, pundits, etc, but not enough 'doers'. There will always be a glut of consumers and a small fraction of producers. Not even our "consumer generated media" age of twitterbooks and
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by jwwest 14y ago
Couple of comments that just immediately came to mind: 1) Ugh, Launchrock. I'm very tired of LR pages, they give no info and serve no purpose. You'd be better off with your own landing page and fake screenshots. With so many Launchrock page
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Recruiters: please do this(giantrobotbattle.com)
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by jwwest 14y ago
How much of this is a real issue versus something that is so incredibly annoying that any trace of it feels big? I haven't met a single 'brogrammer' in my professional life yet... Let the idiots filter themselves out. Obviously they love at
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by jwwest 14y ago
Hate to be negative, but doing your job doesn't merit a trophy. Millenials already have a bad reputation for needing constant rewards.
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by jwwest 15y ago
This reminds me of a Joel Spolsky post from years ago: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html Essentially, Microsoft shoots itself in the foot by trying to stay extremely backwards compatible, even to the detriment of making t
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by jwwest 15y ago
How much of this is "dumb" money? A lot has been written on how well folks are doing fundraising, but not so much on what types of investors are willing to throw money on the basis of a 2 1/2 minute pitch just because it has Y Combinator at
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by jwwest 15y ago
I was going to say the same thing. This happens in every. single. online community. Community launches with savvy early adopters. The success starts to bring in new people. The community slowly begins to evolve. Early adopters start complai
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Hacker News hates me, but that's ok(giantrobotbattle.com)
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by jwwest 15y ago
I've given this some thought, subcontracting isn't something I'm super familiar with but it's definitely worth looking into. Things are way too early to tell yet.
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by jwwest 15y ago
Depends on what the customer wants to do. When you're dealing with mobile apps, it's tricky to do distribution (especially with Apple) so if they want to put it on the app store, I'm more than happy to help them upload it or they can give m
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by jwwest 15y ago
That might be in the cards. I'm trying to make the inflection point between dirt cheap and impulse purchase and $99 seems to catch a lot of attention. Like I mentioned, a lot of this is trial and error, but we all have to start somewhere.
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by jwwest 15y ago
Great idea. I've got several different points of data I can use, it would make for an interesting blog post next week. Thank you.
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by jwwest 15y ago
Ha ha. Absolutely not. I actually do run a registered Texas LLC http://www.treehousemobile.net/ You do bring up a good point about trust and validation, especially online. Freelancers have to deal with this all of the time when we ask for
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by jwwest 15y ago
Passive income is definitely a goal of mine. Getting there requires a lot more work than just 'making an app' and throwing it at the app store and hoping someone gives me their dollar. As I mentioned in the post, I want to learn more about
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by jwwest 15y ago
A lot of this is an experiment. You're right, I can potentially bill a client $100+ an hour as an iOS developer but there's other costs that a lot of people ignore including time spent finding a client and time spent courting them. The inco
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How I went from idea to profit in under 24 hours(giantrobotbattle.com)
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I will build your mobile mvp/prototype for $99(dirtcheapapps.com)
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by jwwest 15y ago
Austin is a great place to live. Great food, the best music, a very low cost of living and a thriving tech scene. Since the city is home to one of the best CS programs in the country (UT Austin) you have a plethora of fresh engineering tale
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Your recruiting process sucks, fix it(giantrobotbattle.com)
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by jwwest 15y ago
I'm a little wary. Forrst caters to both designers and developers, so hopefully this acquisition doesn't effect the core product. Feedback is very easy to get on Forrst right now, which is one of it's biggest draws for me personally. An asi
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SXSW Madlibs(blooming-dawn-2590.herokuapp.com)
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by jwwest 15y ago
I did the StartupBus last year, it was great. In addition to building something cool and credible, you got to show that you could handle a lot of challenges (little to no internet connectivity, distractions, etc). However, in our case we we
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At Tribe’s Door, a Hub of Beer and Heartache(nytimes.com)
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Show HN: smooth_operator.js(github.com)
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"Do it anyway" 5 Lessons to my younger self(giantrobotbattle.com)
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Rabble Rousing(giantrobotbattle.com)
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by jwwest 15y ago
Author here. I spent a few weekends cooking up this simple little wishlist app to learn more about javascript on the front and back ends. I use MongoDB as the database, Node.js and Express to serve up api data, and Backbone on the front to
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Show HN: NiftyGift, my project to learn a full JavaScript stack(niftygiftapp.com)
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by jwwest 15y ago
I love my 280s. However, lugging them around is a bit of a bother so I usually leave them at my desk. When I'm on the move, I pack in-ear buds. Skullcandy makes the best: inexpensive and really great bass. My favorite are the Titans ( http:

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