mprovo1

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by mprovo1 15y ago
Cinemagr.am - Montreal (no remote, relocation possible) Android Lead Dev. We're looking for a talented developer to create the Android version of our app. This involve a lot of challenging and interesting problems: real-time filters, camera
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by mprovo1 15y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this up. Greatly appreciate it!
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by mprovo1 15y ago
Good job, I love this. I find that FastCells are less useful these days as iphone 3G are less common. I prefer to design my complex cells in interface builder for ease of maintenance. But it's just personal taste. Otherwise, everything in t
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Want to make money on the Android Market? Build a weather or business app.(thenextweb.com)
2 points by mprovo1 15y ago|0 comments
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YC’s Graham: Apple is taking over the world(thenextweb.com)
11 points by mprovo1 15y ago|0 comments
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by mprovo1 15y ago
What matters most is distribution and solving a problem that customers have. It can be an advantage in a crowded segment to have an extremely well polished app for differentiation purposes. But without distribution any app is going to die.
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This Can't Be Happening(npr.org)
11 points by mprovo1 15y ago|0 comments
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by mprovo1 15y ago
I wonder if awareness + the experience that we had just 10 years ago is going to limit the size of this bubble. 10 years is a very short time it's the same sector. I know for one thing, I had my lesson 10 years ago, my dad had his lessons i
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by mprovo1 16y ago
We've had this debate about "catchup mechanisms" or negative feedback loops with my boardgames friends countless times. I personally tend to prefer games with a minimal amount of luck rather than a strong negative feedback loop. I dislike s
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Show HN: Twitter as a news reader(smartr.mobi)
2 points by mprovo1 16y ago|1 comments
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Apple Keelhauls Music Streaming Services(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mprovo1 16y ago|0 comments
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by mprovo1 16y ago
Agreed. Also, what is the actual iPhone app? Where was the ad(s) placed? Different kinds of apps will have different ctr. And ad placement is also very important. Without context we can't validate your claims and hope to reproduce them. Tha
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by mprovo1 16y ago
From my experience, users love updates -- of course as long as you're adding meaningful features. We try to update our app every two weeks and and we get a significant increase in traffic each time (i.e. more share on twitter/fb, blog posts
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IPhone App Strips Out Spam to Turn Twitter into a News Reader(mashable.com)
1 points by mprovo1 16y ago|0 comments
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by mprovo1 16y ago
TechCrunch is not worse or better than any other news source. They want to get traffic and to achieve that they cover what is interesting to their readers, namely innovation and successful startups. It's good for them to cover the most pro
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by mprovo1 16y ago
From what I understand, he is using the 'statuses/filter' call of the stream api, filtering with users that have installed his app. This allows him to get the tweets of all his users in a single connection to twitter. 'statuses/filter' and
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Flipboard for iphone(smartr.mobi)
1 points by mprovo1 16y ago|0 comments
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by mprovo1 16y ago
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi I'm not even a fan of bios and seriously this is one of the best books I've read this year (so far, I'm halfway through).
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by mprovo1 16y ago
Original post by pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861577
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by mprovo1 16y ago
I also think that private social networks have a bright future, especially networks targeted to close friends, family, basically smaller groups (instead of FB approach where the notion of "friend" == anyone you meet in a bar). I would defin
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Ask HN: Improving the mobile reading experience (using NLP)
2 points by mprovo1 16y ago|0 comments
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by mprovo1 16y ago
As long as $5000 is enough for you to survive 3-4 months, go for it. As others pointed out, calculate your burn rate and make sure you won't call it quit after a month. You need enough time to put a MVP out there! As a side not you will pro
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by mprovo1 16y ago
You should expect him to work 8 hours day and depending on the culture you wish for your company, I also suggest you be laid-back with office hours. The most important is that things get done regardless of when. Losing good employees is ver
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by mprovo1 16y ago
Figure out what you do better than them maybe? There must be some part of your product that's better than what they have. Can you leverage that? Finding their weak points is a good thing, but you must also know what your strengths are.
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by mprovo1 16y ago
Thanks, I really like your idea of a product for professionals. It would definitely be useful for them. And tracking subjects is something we really want to do! Our first product was a "speedreader" bookmarklet that extracted the most imp
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by mprovo1 16y ago
Thanks, you're right that is the biggest problem we are currently facing. We seem to have good "retention" rate with our iphone apps (people who come back often to use the app), but our downloads are low. I must admit I'm not sure what we p
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Ask HN: Our prototype: People real-time news. Would you use it?
3 points by mprovo1 16y ago|4 comments