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by theoblank 5y ago
The tech stack is pretty straightforward (Rails back-end, using Expo/React Native for the mobile apps). The biblical texts are actually rendered in a WebView and the native code communicates back/forth to the WebView with a basic
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by theoblank 5y ago
Yes, sorry about that! I haven't yet opened it up to all countries.
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by theoblank 5y ago
Very cool! I'll check it out.
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by theoblank 5y ago
Hmm, that's a bummer. I thought I followed all the rules?
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by theoblank 5y ago
Currently I've added ESV, NIV, NRSV, KJV, and a few other public domain translations. Getting access to translations has been a challenge due to licensing costs.
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by theoblank 5y ago
Yes, I'm a huge fan! A lot of their stuff is integrated into Spark Bible.
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by theoblank 5y ago
That's a good question that I'm still exploring. I'm still debating the non-profit vs for-profit route. At the moment this is bootstrapped and self-funded, but if I can gain enough traction I may attempt a freemium business m
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by theoblank 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Added to the todo list ;-)
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by theoblank 5y ago
Hey HN! Spark Bible is a free app I built for iOS & Android. The idea is that many millions of people read the Bible regularly and want it to impact their lives for good. However, the Bible is also quite difficult to understand. There i
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Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app(sparkbible.com)
347 points by theoblank 5y ago|253 comments
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by theoblank 5y ago
Good point. I’ll add that it’s important to remember you’re part of a larger team with a mission that is (most likely) not to just build software. From my experience, the most valuable software engineers are the ones who excel at both progr
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by theoblank 5y ago
Reality is this will lose them paying subscribers, so without a doubt this is an expensive mistake regardless of who’s to blame. Large subscription businesses are very careful about when to email the segment of their subscriber base that is
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by theoblank 5y ago
Sounds interesting! What segment are you targeting? Seems like more of an open platform concept, but curious if it’ll also target schools and universities?
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by theoblank 5y ago
I took up fly fishing after overworking for nearly a decade. It is the best thing I’ve ever done for my mental health. The downside is there’s a big learning curve and it’s not a quick activity (depending on where you live), but it is absol
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Ask HN: How do I stop spam phone calls?
2 points by theoblank 5y ago|4 comments
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by theoblank 5y ago
I agree with this general sentiment. Many people have an idealized vision of WFH and aren't paying attention to the challenges. Another factor I haven't seen much discussion of is people with vs without children. WFH with children
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by theoblank 5y ago
This is an important perspective that I haven’t seen many people explore. Sure, work-from-home is going to be great for some people (and HN is probably the single best enclave of that demographic), but there are also many who will be victim
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by theoblank 5y ago
I was an Airbnb superhost for a few years. I’m not aware of any incentive for hosts to report damages that aren’t legitimate. I’m also not sure why, if this is due to damages, they wouldn’t attempt to charge you versus ban your account. I’v
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by theoblank 5y ago
This practice seems to be becoming more and more normal for B2B products. I like to see pricing too, but understand that in some cases it’s not the best sales funnel. (At the end of the day it should be a measurable part of the sales funnel
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by theoblank 5y ago
I would seriously consider not allowing special treatment in cases like this. In my experience things like this can be a slippery slope. Decide what is most broadly reasonable for both your company and your customers, communicate it well, a
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by theoblank 5y ago
Yeah, and there's a whole skillset required for overcoming a lot of these downsides and the whole company has to proactively work to overcome them. I also wonder how many companies will get bit by leadership (CEOs, engineering team man
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by theoblank 5y ago
There's no perfect way, but my approach is always to be very candid about expectations and consequences. So, I would discuss this very issue and explain how some people are good fits for it and some aren't. There's always bee
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by theoblank 5y ago
First 10 was friends and family (B2C product). First 100-1,000 is much harder now than it was 10 years ago. 10 years ago was a "if you build it, they will come" type landscape, but now there's a lot more noise for B2C product
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by theoblank 5y ago
I agree with this as well. Around 50 people (maybe even 40) companies are required to start operating in a more bureaucratic way, and more often than not this means there's a top-down approach where software developers are just doing w
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by theoblank 5y ago
I co-founded a startup that was fully remote for 6 years and then hybrid for another few years (our NYC office had at least 1/2 of employees in-person full time). I did a bunch of interviewing and hiring for remote software engineers d
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The Atlantic Partners with Knotch for Content Intelligence(theatlantic.com)
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The Scopes trial was weird and intense(history.hanover.edu)
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Fastly Internet Outage Was Caused by One Customer Changing a Setting(npr.org)
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Ask HN: Best online bank for small biz?
2 points by theoblank 5y ago|0 comments
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Is there any hope for online ads?
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