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by ronyeh 14y ago
Behance looks good. Thanks for the tip! I'd rather avoid generic contracting/freelance sites, as I feel like the quality would be "all over the map" as you say. I'd prefer looking for artist communities, especially if they have forums that
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Yes! I'd love for a startup to come in and do a better job than TurboTax, and target LLCs, S-Corps, and small C-Corps. This would be amazing!
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by ronyeh 14y ago
If you are a small team (e.g., 1-2 people) already based in CA, it's less hassle (and slightly cheaper) in the first several years. Once you have gained traction and secured VC backing, it is possible that they will ask you to convert to a
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by ronyeh 14y ago
One suggestion: for the majority of startups (based in California) that will use your service, it might be easier to register as a California C Corp. I can't imagine any VC denying you funding because you are not a DE corp. Plus, you save ~
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Ask HN: How to Find Artists for Mobile Game?
3 points by ronyeh 14y ago|9 comments
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Congrats! Can you elaborate on this point? Despite being an iOS game 95% of development was done on PC. Was it a C++/OpenGL game that had a small iOS AppDelegate / GLKit / UIKit / etc scaffold?
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Yeah, I didn't include ads for my first year either. Now, my model going forward will always be: Free + iAds/AdMob + IAP to get more content and remove the ads. There are people who can never pay you (kids whose parents have disabled IAP).
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Additionally: Since you already have a web-playable version of the game, you should have a feature where a user can share a puzzle with a friend. Once they complete a challenging puzzle, say something like "Congrats. You demolished that puz
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Welcome to the App Store! I'm very impressed with what you guys have done in 6 months; it took me much longer to ship my first app. Here's a little bit of feedback: + The graphics are super polished. Great work! + The touch interaction coul
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Treat it like learning how to speak a foreign language (e.g., Spanish). There's obviously too much to learn, and it is easy to become overwhelmed. However, you can learn bits and pieces at a time. Just learn things as you go, and as you nee
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by ronyeh 14y ago
I agree with this sentiment. Learning how to cook teaches you how to appreciate food, and helps you think differently about how food is prepared and even consumed. Learning how to code, even if you don't become a professional programmer, wi
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Remembrance Agent http://www.remem.org/ was created by Bradley Rhodes, one of the group of "cyborgs" doing wearable computing research at MIT at that time. ... and after a quick search, it looks like he works at the Google, most likely on
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by ronyeh 14y ago
(In the far future) if Google Glass could automatically upload video of what you're seeing to your cloud storage, you could have a searchable log of your entire life. Reminds me of these projects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits
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by ronyeh 14y ago
http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=followers Haven't tried it myself, but it seems promising.
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Thanks for your link, but I've investigated MIDI support in JS. I actually work on piano/guitar apps, and would love to build a high performing, low latency app that hooks up with a physical keyboard. If you know how this can be done, pleas
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Thanks for reading! I remember reading a lot about other developers when I started out, so I just want to make sure I give back. Plus, it's a bit of free marketing for my apps. :-)
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HTML5 just needs a better sound API (e.g., programmatic playback, midi) so that we can make better games/apps. Many games just fall back to Flash for their sound.
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by ronyeh 14y ago
M/S is Master/Slave: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastor... HRD is High Replication Datastore: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/mi... M/S is deprecated, and HRD is the new hotness (and i
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by ronyeh 14y ago
In the immediate future, I think I'll stick with adding new content (more paid song packs and more free songs). Farther in the future, it might be fun to add a "game" section where users can play short DDR/GuitarHero style games to practice
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Thanks for your feedback as well! I definitely don't have a graphic design background, so maybe I'll look on themeforest at some point. I just want to keep the site as lightweight as possible though, in case iPhone users visit it.
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by ronyeh 14y ago
These days, I don't think there is a guarantee of anything, even if you have a few thousand downloads. Even with the initial downloads, my app languished on the store until I introduced iPad support, added more song packs, and improved the
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by ronyeh 14y ago
You definitely don't have to fail before you succeed. But if it happens, just accept it, learn something, and move on. Do you have it on the iPod or iPad? On the iPad, you'll see a banner ad that spans the bottom of the display. That gene
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by ronyeh 14y ago
I have a similar background, with my earliest programming experience in Logo, drawing fun shapes. I then got into PC games, dealing with batch files, config.sys, and HIMEM to extract extra KBs of conventional memory. I got back into program
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Your landing pages are nicely designed. Some small suggestions: on Track My Ride, I found the "Get Protected Today" font not very readable and a bit tacky. Also, I don't understand why "Chat with us" looks like a Christmas present. On my 15
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Yes, I love these videos! The first one I saw was LeBron asking Sal about the likelihood of him hitting 10 free throws in a row.
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by ronyeh 14y ago
What kinds of apps have you worked on? I'd love to check them out. The biggest unexpected thing for me was that the simpler you make your app, the more likely people will enjoy it! People always make fun of how the Angry Birds game mechanic
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by ronyeh 14y ago
Thanks! Feel free to ask me any questions. Happy to respond.
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All we need is for LeBron and KD to take a summer class in JS or python and tweet about it. Maybe they can do some tasks like analyze their own stats.
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by ronyeh 14y ago
http://blog.squarepoet.com/post/44099054060/one-year-on-the-...
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Show HN: 8 million downloads after one year on the App Store
18 points by ronyeh 14y ago|17 comments

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