roryisok

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by roryisok 9y ago
I'm scared to mention electron on here, always draws out the torch and pitchforks
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by roryisok 9y ago
> spline reticulation Classic. I miss simcopter
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by roryisok 9y ago
+1 for jokes in code. I have a thesaurus plugin with an ASCII T-Rex in the source.
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by roryisok 9y ago
The majority successful authors don't get their first book published, or their second, or sell any copies of their third. This is normal, please don't give up!
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by roryisok 9y ago
That's a really interesting concept - the snippets idea reminds me of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. No chapters in that book, only paragraphs
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by roryisok 9y ago
In this case the messenger is a loud-mouthed racist bigot, and I wouldn't trust him to tell me the time.
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by roryisok 9y ago
PICO8 was my first thought too
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by roryisok 9y ago
I wrote a todo list app for windows phone called listage, which had neat fast entry and auto categorising features. Free with in app purchase to unlock advanced features. I built it for myself but secretly hoped it would take the world by s
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by roryisok 9y ago
I'm the developer of a few writing apps, and I've tried this approach, you get shut down really quick if you create an account and advertise your app on most forums. I got banned on a lot of them right out of the gate. Instead t
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by roryisok 9y ago
Ok that sounds amazing. I'm finding all kinds of treasure in this thread
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by roryisok 9y ago
So don't! If you create a second account for your business identity, nobody will know. Keep business and personal accounts separate. Neither is throwaway!
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by roryisok 9y ago
Whoah... That just gave me an idea... An Alexa app to run d&d games! It sounds awesome though, as do most of the projects in this thread. I'll be bookmarking it.
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by roryisok 9y ago
Marketing is hard. Is there some kind of service out there where marketers will help you sell your app for a share of revenue? I'm not trolling here, just in case I've missed a really obvious one
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by roryisok 9y ago
I can empathise with this, I've tried to build a better evernote too, and I suspect its quite common. Everyone has their own way to take notes. The catch is, in this context at least, trying to make money from it. That's something
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by roryisok 9y ago
Married, two kids. I have time for projects. Although, if I'm honest, really no social life. I have about 3-5 hours in the evening in which I need to balance house work, projects, exercise, couple time. It's only through managemen
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by roryisok 9y ago
Oooohhhhh. Edit: Apologies, I forgot there's a standing "no oooohhhhh" rule on HN
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by roryisok 9y ago
Make this for starters ^ I'll take that $100 as a cheque
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by roryisok 9y ago
Desktoppr is a nice wallpaper app that puts images in your dropbox. A lot of fantasy and sf art in the mix but not exclusively Are you thinking of building something? I'd say there's a market for it (though no obvious monetization
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by roryisok 9y ago
Some great stuff on DA but you have to wade through an awful lot of muck to find it
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by roryisok 9y ago
I don't think he means 3d models so much as digital paintings - fantasy art for background wallpaper
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by roryisok 9y ago
that is a great spin on it. thank you!
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by roryisok 9y ago
Nope, I work in web development, and currently in node.js =( I've heard of Zeit though. Heard of Micro, Hyper and have actually used PKG. So maybe its not so bad
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by roryisok 9y ago
Euch. Daily mail - No thanks.
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by roryisok 9y ago
This is the kind of post that triggers my imposter syndrome. I've been a programmer for 10+ years and I have no clue what now.sh or dathttpd are. :(
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by roryisok 9y ago
I thought that was the joke
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by roryisok 9y ago
One trick is I try not to bring my phone to bed with me. Then last thing at night, first thing in the morning I have time to read
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by roryisok 9y ago
+1 Sorry, couldn't resist. I got burned by this, I used it to sign up to a newsletter, and when I tried to unsubscribe, I kept putting in my actual email address with no results. Took me two weeks to think of checking the "to&quot
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by roryisok 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but Gruber can't seem to write a simple article without name checking multiple Apple products and services. They're completely irrelevant here but he still manages to mention his iPad pro review unit an
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by roryisok 9y ago
This Post Title Needs Sentence Case, More Words Ether thief remains a mystery, one year after $55m digital heist
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by roryisok 9y ago
Exactly, this could well be by design

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