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by revorad 14y ago
That's why I and most people haven't. I considered supporting App.net for ideological reasons alone, but it's not exactly in the clear in that department either. It's a product of a 3-year old VC-funded company. By the time enough people mo
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by revorad 14y ago
Right, so why did it fizzle out? It takes a lot of energy and resources to make something like this work. Dalton and his team clearly have enough to at least kindle a small fire. Github didn't invent git. But, it became the first really goo
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by revorad 14y ago
Because we need an aggregator. It's not like a blogging engine, where I can just use Wordpress. A social network needs people. A lot of people complain about the quality of HN going down. Why don't they take the arc or reddit source code an
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by revorad 14y ago
Zuck should totally step down and hand over the reins to one of the many seasoned executives from Myspace.
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by revorad 14y ago
They don't bubble up. They are assigned a high rank to start with and then they fall off the page as per the normal algorithm.
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by revorad 14y ago
I think you're missing the OP's point. The marginal utility of a Starbucks coffee is indeed very small, but at least it is known . The marginal utility of your $0.99 app is unknown and possibly even negative. Of course I agree with you on
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by revorad 14y ago
Do you know who the investors in Branch are? :-)
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by revorad 14y ago
I found out about you guys from the last "The Best Thing This Year" email. Really awesome app!
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by revorad 14y ago
Isn't $3.99 on the high end of app pricing? Instapaper sells for $4.99 and is considered a premium product. How long does it take to make a $3.99 app? Do you factor in those development costs? If it's just one person and you make $50K, that
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by revorad 14y ago
Hey, there're some bingo lovers among us :-)
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by revorad 14y ago
awolf, thanks for chiming in based on your experience. I'm really pleased to hear you've had success with your apps. I'm sorry about my hyperbolic tones earlier. It's just that there's so much blind hype about the app stores, that it upsets
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by revorad 14y ago
Exactly! $5-$20 was the peak! And the market hasn't settled at $1.99. The market has settled at $ZERO. I quote from http://www.apple.com/iphone/from-the-app-store/ : Over 500,000 apps. For work, play, and everything in between. The apps
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by revorad 14y ago
Ah yes, I wrote about that yesterday - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378546 Tripit and every other VC-backed company is in a completely different business than indie devs making apps. The product that companies like Tripit are se
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by revorad 14y ago
Well, I wish these guys only suffered from "If you build it great, they will come and throw money at you.". No! They suffer from an advanced mutation. "If you build it great, those guys over there will come and throw money at you. Ewwwwwwww
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by revorad 14y ago
"It makes me sick to my stomach as it so transparently preys on the weaknesses like addiction and compulsion." You know what makes me sick to the stomach? Developers starving themselves to death because of a complete disregard to basic bu
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by revorad 14y ago
Nice to see a post with some real experiments and data (even if it's qualitative), instead of the usual over-generalised productivity advice.
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by revorad 14y ago
Fear of money is definitely a big problem, especially among developers. But the situation is more complicated. There are two important things to understand here, which I've learnt the hard way. 1. The entire business model, not just the exi
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by revorad 14y ago
This is such a fun app. I'm worried it will stop being fun because as a startup you might have to turn it into something not-fun :-(
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by revorad 14y ago
This is fun. Did you hear about PG's ambitious medical startup idea? - http://www.reelsurfer.com/watch/clip/share_id/7127/390
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by revorad 14y ago
That's great. You should put that step 2 text somewhere either on the homepage or on the sign up page. You might also want to put a sign up button on the homepage. Right now, there's no direct link to sign up on that page and it's not obvio
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by revorad 14y ago
Talk to all your customers. Ask your customers who are leaving. Don't guess their reasons for leaving. Actually ask all of them directly. Ask the new customers who are signing up, why they are signing up? Ask the customers who are not leavi
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by revorad 14y ago
This is really well done. After reading everything, the big question in my mind is how does this work? After signing up, what's the first step I need to take to get going? Please show me that process before asking me to sign up. A video wou
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by revorad 14y ago
This looks fantastic. The lack of computation is a surprising but very novel take on the idea.
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by revorad 14y ago
Actually, a lot of people use Excel just as a table to list things in a semi-structured way. They don't even know how to do a sum in Excel. Grid looks like a huge improvement for them. This is way slicker than the first versions of most pr
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by revorad 14y ago
Proclaiming 2 quarters' income figures from one single player as unambigiously good news for a huge diverse market is a bit hyperbolic, don't you think? It's like saying a $1M exit for a random startup is unambigiously good news for all s
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Platform Hygiene(channel9.msdn.com)
2 points by revorad 14y ago|0 comments
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by revorad 14y ago
unambiguously good news for independent artists What algorithm do you use for your amazing extrapolation based on one data point?
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by revorad 14y ago
The onboarding process on the iphone app is probably the best I've seen on any app. This is good stuff. Edit: But it breaks my heart to think that they will give it away for free to grow fast and then do all sorts of backflips in search of
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by revorad 14y ago
Congrats tptacek!! Thanks for all your amazing comments over the years and now that you are set for life, I expect more higher quality commentary. :-P
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Time Out goes free: London edition of listings magazine to drop cover price(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by revorad 14y ago|0 comments

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