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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Lots of reasons and I'd be happy to share. 1. I'm from the advertising industry. There's a reason Prada sells jeans for $300 and Old Navy's are $30, and we're not targeting Old Navy shoppers with this app. 2. I believe we're selling a rathe
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
We're half way there, but it's missing the automated messaging aspects of girlfriendapp. I wonder how girlfriendapp displays who the messages are from, AFAIK the SDK doesn't allow for tight integration with SMS. Nevertheless, ideas are stir
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
all he was saying is that it goes the other way too, especially as the app market populates. iFart was made by Joel Comm, believe me when I say he had a hand in marketing the app to drive the number of sales that it did. http://www.joelcom
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I use to be into baseball cards back in the old days, but then I turned into a geek and they were no longer of interest. An entrepreneur from the early days is capitalizing on the baseball card problem with one of their online games, and th
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I second the softer feel, the Feathers seem a lot less stiff than the common merkur blades I was using. They also feel sharper, I think the blade conforms better against my boney face and less irritation. I've been meaning to order this ac
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I know a few people using Dusty's service, for most it covered the hosting bills and has much better returns than Google AdSense. He's putting a lot of energy into making it even better. I suggest diversifying your ad real estate, at least
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I am very obsessed with safety razors. Been hooked on it for about 2 years now and haven't gone back: 1) save a ton of money 2) feel like I have that "best shave of my life" at least once a week. 3) local product I use is much better for th
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
indeed there are, and the heat is definitely killing me right now.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
No it's not fool's gold, startups are generating millions in revenue from both. They are simply a reflection of a globalized market place, you're competing with developers in under developed countries. What's fool's gold to you, is riches t
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Great success story on bootstrapping your business, and a big congrats because it's very a difficult road and will surely challenge your nerves and sanity. :) If your app has only been for sale for ~1 month, I encourage you to be very conse
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Surprised they don't have SilverStripe listed on there, that's a great up and coming open source CMS that I've used numerous times when clients demand more out of WP. http://silverstripe.org It's lot more flexible than WP but the admin in
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I firmly agree with both of your points, pclark and mfish. Marketing is the missing piece for a lot of developers, but having tried a fair amount of marketing ourself (news interviews, print/newspaper, blogs, etc.) — there are some inherent
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Lots of businesses started out of garages and college dorms, a handshake is all you knew or cared about. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
It's a 3 month cycle and most of the team has to move to get funding from ycom. At which point, you better be willing to give it a full-time effort if you're taking someone else's money and you expect success. Building a business is hard wo
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I still really love my iPhone but the Android is the second most attractive to me. Like you said though, the devices just haven't been that great yet. My girlfriend has the Palm Pre and I don't think it's that great at all. It's extremely f
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
iPhone apps and consulting work. From a boot-strappers perspective, I had hoped for more sustainability from iphone sales, but we make far more building apps for other people (for cold-hard cash) than we do from our product sales. Neverthel
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Awesome interview, congrats!! Sam definitely has the substance, he's just getting started. While the trend with voice may be falling, I actually hate email/txt a lot of times (at least via the phone). I much rather have a phone call and mak
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Dear Mr. Jobs, please fix the AppStore approval process before you do anything else. I can live with the extra dot for missed calls, I actually like being reminded to call them back after listening to a voice mail.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I ran my own mini-advertising agency during college. They don't take much to start and ended up with a very, very nice salary (middle $100's). I even lived for free for two years exchanging services with collegiate complexes in the area. He
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Creativity can be found in all walks of life, there are creative doctors, lawyers, accounts (well..), programmers etc. To be exceptional in your field, I think you have to leverage some element of creativity to stand out amongst a plethora
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
This was another comment they made in the earnings report: As for price, it's up to the developers to choose where to set the price. I would think as the installed base grows, it makes sense to have lower prices but that's totally up to th
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Apple acknowledges AppStore's "race to bottom", working on improvements.(macrumors.com)
8 points by pxlpshr 17y ago|6 comments
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I couldn't agree more with your last paragraph. :)
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I think these kind of articles miss the point of "status updates". For most people, it's not really narcissistic behavior so much as it is efficient social communication. Of course you can find outliers, douche bags are everywhere with or w
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
we just had a debate on this a week or two ago on HN. the eternal optimism of a hacker is usually a sign of inexperience, imo. so sure, a few MIT students could "roll their own" in 12-18+ months. It likely still won't be as feature complete
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Similar situation. No cable. 720p projector + 100" fixed mounted screen. PS3. Wii. Netflix. Roku. I love movies but cable is overpriced and overrated. Until it's a la carte, I'll stick to IPTV or OTAHD.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
IMO, so many entrepreneurs have made it that they are paying it forward and reinvesting in the ecosystem. So while many of these companies may fail — like many do regardless of geographic location, they'll produce talent that has experience
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
i'm aware of searchyc, but i'm not going to go to a second site before I submit content "just to check". however, i would search before submitting if was readily available in a practical and usable manner. search seems fundamental to a data
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
why does ycom not have search or suggestion feature like digg? seems like something that's needed to handle the growing popularity of this site.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Everyone on the planet basically has aspects of one or all of these categories ...perhaps that's why 9 out of 10 new businesses fail. i think everyone will have 1 or 2 maybe 3, but too many = toxic.

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