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Meteor Pattern: Template-Level Subscriptions(discovermeteor.com)
1 points by sgdesign 12y ago|0 comments
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by sgdesign 12y ago
One thing I've started doing for Telescope (an open-source HN clone: http://telesc.pe ) is holding weekly hangouts where people can come up and talk about what they've been doing with the app. Here's the latest one
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Telescope Hangout #3: Forms, Ads, and Lots of Questions(telesc.pe)
1 points by sgdesign 12y ago|0 comments
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by sgdesign 12y ago
I really like what GitBook is doing. We had to pretty much set up our own similar system for Discover Meteor, and it was clear a better way was needed.
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Engineering Communities: Meteor's Yuriy Dybskiy Talks About Meteor Day(discovermeteor.com)
4 points by sgdesign 12y ago|0 comments
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by sgdesign 12y ago
You can still get the first eight chapters of our book about Meteor (Discover Meteor) for free for one more day here: http://book.discovermeteor.com/starter And if you want, you can also join us in the Meteor chatroom on Gi
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by sgdesign 12y ago
There's a fine line between being opinionated and being plain rude. I think Matias Duarte is not the only person with his head too far up his…
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by sgdesign 12y ago
Great write-up. A lot of people have asked us why we haven't made a print version of Discover Meteor yet. Next time, I'll just point them at your post! And to be honest, although we do provide ePub/mobi versions, we've d
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by sgdesign 12y ago
We fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out!
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by sgdesign 12y ago
Thanks for the mention :) Speaking of sales graphs, here's a pretty detailed case study for our book's sales made by the Gumroad folks: http://blog.gumroad.com/post/97148570338/discover-meteor-cas...
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by sgdesign 12y ago
They can replace some native apps. With Meteor, you can now use the same basic building blocks to build your web app, iOS app, and Android app. Maybe you won't reach the same quality on iOS and Android as you would with native apps,
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Why Meteor(meteorpedia.com)
81 points by sgdesign 12y ago|76 comments
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by sgdesign 12y ago
Not sure if it's relevant here, but I want to point out that just because you received it in plaintext doesn't mean they store it in plaintext. So if you change it immediately to something more secure, and it might not be a secu
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by sgdesign 12y ago
> That is why I guess their main audience is rails developers who need some content management functionality in their apps. And those do not need hosting. That's a great point, and another illustration that a business model that wor
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by sgdesign 12y ago
I don't think it's debatable that there are people out there familiar with WordPress who don't like it much and are looking for something else. Whether this is 90%, 50%, or 1% of WordPress developers doesn't matter much.
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Two Years of Telescope: Open Source Lessons Learned(telesc.pe)
8 points by sgdesign 12y ago|0 comments
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by sgdesign 12y ago
Shouldn't you put the course's price somewhere on that page? Otherwise people might be hesitant to actually click "buy the course".
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by sgdesign 12y ago
The problem here is the size of the market, not the fact that people don't want to pay. I assume the market is fairly small (at least, I don't know that many people who live on a boat) so it might not be worth your time for that r
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by sgdesign 12y ago
Thanks for the plug :) Also relevant, a detailed case study about our sales by the Gumroad folks: http://blog.gumroad.com/post/97148570338/discover-meteor-cas...
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by sgdesign 12y ago
This could be a self-reinforcing problem, too. Apps with ugly UIs do well, so developers don't see the need to invest resources in better UIs, which means users don't have better alternatives and end up buying apps with ugly UIs,
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Ask HN: What's the current least bad solution for storing personal photos?
3 points by sgdesign 12y ago|8 comments
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by sgdesign 12y ago
I'm not offended, thanks for the extra feedback :) Although I do want to point out that Telescope also comes with a minimally styled base theme that was specifically made to let people customize it however they want: http://
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by sgdesign 12y ago
The creator of Bootstrappers.io managed to get 700 emails by launching "a website looking and behaving like a thousand other ones": http://blog.bootstrappers.io/how-i-bootstrapped-bootstrapper... I appreciate that
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by sgdesign 12y ago
Telescope designer here. Curious to know how many people think the default theme is ugly? Just upvote this comment if you agree with kolev so I can find out.
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by sgdesign 12y ago
I don't know if your assessment of the study is valid (it seems a little simplistic to think that they wouldn't account for this to be honest), but what you describe is classic Survivorship Bias. Here's an entertaining video
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by sgdesign 12y ago
There's also http://telesc.pe :)
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by sgdesign 12y ago
For those like me who thought this was about the awesome Alfred app [1]: it's not. [1] http://www.alfredapp.com/
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by sgdesign 12y ago
Well, there are countless successful products that don't "solve a problem". What problem do Call of Duty or League of Legends solve? What "problem" would the hypothetical iWatch solve? In other words, solving proble
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by sgdesign 12y ago
Something I see missing from a lot of these startup discussions are the ideas of identity and community. Sure, "solving a problem" is important. But Nike isn't solving a problem that other shoe companies haven't solved a
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by sgdesign 12y ago
That's actually my fault, it's a Telescope bug. It was fixed in one of the recent updates, but I guess the site was probably running a slightly outdated version.

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