rithal

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by rithal 6y ago
Updated with contact info.
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by rithal 6y ago
Normalyze, Inc | Full Stack Engineer | Remote(anywhere) | Full-time We just got funded and started on a cybersecurity SaaS B2B company. We are tackling a problem that infosec and developers alike have unanimously validated and no holistic s
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Tell HN: Making my profitable iOS App free and then shutting it down
1 points by rithal 12y ago|1 comments
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How To Spin Up An Internal Web Service Without Much Ado(netskope.com)
1 points by rithal 13y ago|0 comments
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by rithal 14y ago
Parse is one of the best abstractions for modern programming I have seen in a while. It's a kind of abstraction that goes beyond a single programming language. Very innovative. I have an app in the gallery (also here: http://itunes.apple.c
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From 0 to $2.8 billion (cap) in under 7 years(marketwatch.com)
2 points by rithal 14y ago|0 comments
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by rithal 14y ago
What inspiring and awe-inspiring talk! I discovered this video thanks to this post on HN http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4171058
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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle(youtube.com)
6 points by rithal 14y ago|3 comments
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by rithal 14y ago
Android has built in offline maps. Not sure about POIs not sure if the quality is as good as openstreetmaps for offline version. Given the app sales monetization for iOS vs Android is ~ 9:1, I need to come up with other monetization methods
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by rithal 14y ago
That's an awesome app. I would like to have their rendering detail and compression but settled for what I did to make sure I have an MVP. They focussed on map rendering quality and I focussed on travelers' needs. They were 4 guys working fo
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by rithal 14y ago
Buy it now so you don't have to remember to buy it before your next trip :)
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by rithal 14y ago
I use mapnik to generate tiles from OSM data. Get in touch with me via email ravi at light fighter labs dawt com (dawt should avoid harvesters :)) I'll be glad if I can help.
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by rithal 14y ago
I might release it some day. Right now, the code is not release-worthy. I do know my way around it since I wrote it and so, it's really pretty easy for me to add new maps if you send the names of the cities without much manual work. Thanks
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by rithal 14y ago
No routing as of now. My main target segment is tourists on foot in popular travel destinations outside of their country. I think a map of the entire world is too big to fit on an iPhone (at least in pre-rendered map tiles - not sure if 64G
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by rithal 14y ago
Why the entire planet is not available: I wanted to host it on an inexpensive server (only what's needed), generate maps only for regions that are popular among my target segment (popular tourist destinations mostly) since compute was also
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by rithal 14y ago
Added the credit as a main feature. Now that I think of it, it is a feature rather than just a credit. OpenStreetMap is indeed better than many commercial mapping data sources for some of the cities. The app has the credit as an overlay in
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Show HN: My nights and weekends project based on openstreetmaps(besttravelapp.org)
30 points by rithal 14y ago|21 comments
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by rithal 14y ago
A follow up on what hitting the front page of HN did to your app downloads is due soon.
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How I got 45,000 downloads in 3 days(blog.lightfighterlabs.com)
1 points by rithal 14y ago|0 comments