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by vlokshin 14y ago
I'd be so honored if I knew PG dropped everything else, or commissioned one of the YC teams, to go and build this instead of whatever he was doing at the time he saw the link.
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Awesome feedback. And great/clear thinking. Thank you.
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by vlokshin 14y ago
PG, or any mods - Why did this get downvoted? It was #2 on the front page and is suddenly gone. Can you please let me know what happened?
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Everyone has ideas, and some even have the ability to execute. We're trying to marry the two. Full disclosure: My team needs this product. We've built apps no one wants. We don't want to to do that again. We're hoping others are in the same
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by vlokshin 14y ago
I'm more on your side of this opinion... but I doubt the majority of the world is. You'd be really surprised the "ideas" i've seen some throw my way after making me sign an NDA. Ironically enough, I guess I can't talk about those...
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Prototypes can be costly. Prototypes no one wants can be costly AND devastating.
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by vlokshin 14y ago
You've nailed both of the biggest things we'll be tackling. For people posting: quick, protected, easy, elegant, keeps early adopters so that you can reach out them if it's built. For those evaluating an idea: Their absolutely needs to be a
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Point taken, and we do appreciate the feedback. The same can be said for KickStarter/Indiegogog/Everyone else. We're trying to build the same model, but hoping (and assuming) that people are quicker to give their interest, and sign up as an
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Valid point. LaunchRock takes a while. While you're waiting for DNS settings to go through, adding a favicon (still not sure why that's required), you could've tried out 10 ideas. LaunchRock is an amazing tool, but it makes you bring your o
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Admittedly, this is one of our biggest challenges. It's the classic chicken/egg problem (posting ideas and actually evaluating them). Based on feedback (from this post, for example), we'd like to figure out exactly how we incentivize that "
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Steve, that's EXACTLY how we see it being used
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Awesome :) Thanks for the kind words! people like you (and like us) are exactly why we're building this product. If you have any feedback, feel free to email me directly -- Vlad (at) DarwinApps.com
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Lots of people and creative entrepreneurs in the world. 1 steve jobs :)
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by vlokshin 14y ago
We're trying to be smart about this. LaunchSky is to test out what you should build and what you shouldn't. We're currently gauging that interest with the HN community. If the interest in this product is there, we'll of course invest in the
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Well, that's an assumption we're testing: early adopters / curious viewers / other entrepreneurs, will be quicker to give their support (and their email, through a secured gateway to the original poster) than their money. We'll be investing
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by vlokshin 14y ago
This is a new project we'll be building at DarwinApps. I'd love to hear feedback/criticisms/advice from the HN community!
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Stop building apps no one wants(launchsky.com)
71 points by vlokshin 14y ago|140 comments
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by vlokshin 14y ago
These are great, thanks for sharing! It'd be fantastic to get something like this for app-based communications (sign-up, notifications, PW change, etc), and there may be just as much of a reach as with campaign marketers. Tons of people try
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by vlokshin 14y ago
I don't REALLY think, but for a man that smart -- it seems a tiny bit silly. But he's also that crazy.
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by vlokshin 14y ago
The domain was registered 11/16 No one is, even in the slightest, is doubting the validity of this blog?
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by vlokshin 14y ago
This is awesome. Kudos to you for posting, Matt. I just moved to the city (it'll be 1 month tomorrow), but luckily I had great friends waiting for me who I'll be enjoying the evening with. But the awesomeness of this post almost makes me wa
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Couldn't agree any more. Ideas should stem from problems. The "problem" with only solving problems for yourself, however, is that you may not be hitting a real market. The tech niche isn't exactly the norm (it's the .1%). Lean methodologies
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by vlokshin 14y ago
You'd probably be surprised at how new/young we are, but I appreciate the unintentional compliment :) In reality, we've been doing this outside of our 9-5s for a couple of years (with the majority of the "we" coming together while trying to
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by vlokshin 14y ago
responding to your edit -- Totally fair. I'm usually too slow to get new content posted up, as someone else on HN usually gets there before me, so it's my own for submissions. That may continue. I try to be active enough in commentary, but
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by vlokshin 14y ago
Good call. I need to forward vladlokshin.com to DarwinApps.com If you wrote a blog post about apps pricing & expectations, ran an app dev shop, and frequented HN, wouldn't that be only logical to do if you posted something? Nice detecti
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by vlokshin 14y ago
TL;DR ad-lib with "custom software" would be: Custom Software can cost a variable of extreme prices, depending on who's building it and exactly what is wanted out of the custom software. What's so ludicrous about that? Maybe read the articl
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by vlokshin 14y ago
First line sounds a bit loaded, but I think we completely agree? I think...
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Q: “How much does an app cost?” A: “About as much as a car.”(blog.darwinapps.com)
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by vlokshin 14y ago
No no, I'm not being sarcastic in the congratulations. I just actually think the single vs. co-founded projects are vastly different in % chance of success. I do think the difference really is .01% to 5%, sorry if I wasn't being as tactful
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by vlokshin 14y ago
I think I speak for most young, yet-to-be-successful, founders when I say: I'd rather keep 15-30% of something that has a 5% chance of success than 70-100% of something that has a .01% chance of success. I thoroughly believe doing it alone

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