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by rrbrambley 14y ago
The difference to me is that they're calling this a "bookstore," and the thing that they're selling is supposed to be a new way of consuming the thing that we traditionally know as "books." That's what I used to believe their business was.
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
Absolutely not. This is where the line is drawn. I've grown to accept Apple's App Store policies for the sake of keeping app quality high. However, when it comes to distributing content that people actually use to learn new things and enric
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
Too many? Too soon? Part of the agreement that came with joining was that you wouldn't "expose" other startups as participants, though I have no problem with talking openly about my experience. If anyone has questions, feel free to ping me.
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Virtual Incubator to All(pandodaily.com)
100 points by rrbrambley 14y ago|40 comments
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
We've received a lot of constructive feedback from other startups over the last couple months in nReduce, and it has generally been a nice experience. For that reason alone, it has been pretty valuable to us. The new approach to "demo day"
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
Benjamin Button style leveling.
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
This is a great read. Thank you for posting this link!
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
Yeah, well this a problem. It shouldn't be considered extreme to have this point of view.
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
"There may be no shortage of commentators ready to decry pay-to-win grindfests as 'evil' design, but what’s still needed is a code of ethical game mechanics that provides a yardstick to measure which games and which game designers can be tr
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0 XP: The Zynga Counterrevolution(mediumdifficulty.com)
64 points by rrbrambley 14y ago|50 comments
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
Thanks for posting this information. We just applied this week and it would have been useful to know all this stuff. My experience: The application process was very painful due to bugs in the application. After spending hours filling out th
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
I don't think it's completely off topic. I'm not trying to be snarky, but he says "The world doesn’t need a slightly better Twitter, just as the world doesn’t need a slightly better ad model." as he writes on his slightly better blogging pl
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Bringing Back Long-Term Quality(robdotrob.com)
2 points by rrbrambley 14y ago|0 comments
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
Hey Dalton & crew – congrats on this launch. I think that technologically, it's mostly clear what you want to build, but the thing that might be confusing is just that it is only described as "a real-time feed and API." Although you men
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by rrbrambley 14y ago
Exactly. I haven't played many of these ported games, but my disappointment has come mostly with the on-screen controls. I don't understand why the writer of this piece mentioned that, but neglected to elaborate on how the key to making the
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Instagram Dollars Should Have Been Used To Fix The World’s Problems(robdotrob.com)
2 points by rrbrambley 14y ago|1 comments
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by rrbrambley 15y ago
What's next? How about: Get 5-10 early-stage startups with decent ideas, put them in a huge house (or office building with several offices) and film them all as they make progress on their product. YC, but being filmed all the time. Judges
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by rrbrambley 15y ago
Sadly, this is what it always does when I search for apps that were just released. I wish they'd fix this.
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by rrbrambley 15y ago
This is hilarious, but if you could replace photo links with inlined photos, I'd be more likely to buy. Nothing beats soiling photos of my friends, family, and favorite food.
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by rrbrambley 15y ago
Looks great. Everyone is sick of crappy restaurant websites. One nit-picky non-technical thing – the first thing I see is the h2 with "Manage your own Restaurants Website." You need an apostrophe in there... and maybe you should think about
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by rrbrambley 15y ago
Startups are about creating narratives, not consuming them. What he seems to miss here is that some of the best businesses produce a consumable product after experiencing a problem first-hand and then deciding to go build a solution. If t
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Bank of America ATMs In San Francisco Turned Into Truth Machines(understory.ran.org)
1 points by rrbrambley 15y ago|0 comments
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by rrbrambley 15y ago
Yay (I am also an epic troll in this.)
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by rrbrambley 16y ago
I too have thought about how ads in paid apps seem "rude," but lately, I have begun to wonder if there is actually a middle ground. If you decide to sell your application for a low price when you know that users would be willing to pay much