wushupork

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   by wushupork 12y ago

   Congrats on coming out of failure. I would love to learn more about what worked and what didn't work. What sort of pitfalls you had, lessons learned, etc
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   by wushupork 12y ago

   Thanks for sharing your story and being candid about it. You only hear of the uber success in the news and everybody feels good. But the reality is most VC funded companies fail or under perform expectations and the few winners hit homerun
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   by wushupork 12y ago

   Congrats James - I've been watching your journey since Envolve. We were one of the first hundred users to join Firebase (ID:68) and I remember how easy it took to add real time notifications to one of my product (5 hrs I believe). Your
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   Twelve Year Old Top Selling Girl Scout's Sales Tips(fastcompany.com)

   6 points by wushupork 13y ago|2 comments
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   by wushupork 13y ago

   This is especially true in a third world country with perhaps a modest level of corruption. Everyone will want a piece of you whether or not you wanted it. Personal safety and the safety of your family all of a sudden become a major concern
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   by wushupork 13y ago

   I'd love to hear Mark Zuckerberg reply to this.
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   by wushupork 13y ago

   Just the fact that you are 15, reading hackernews and making apps and NOT spending your time kicking some middle-aged man at Halo is AMAZING. Kudos to you. I wish I was more like you when I was your age.
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   by wushupork 13y ago

   Does a startup need to be scalable on day one? Would you consider Nintendo a scalable company? They started selling cards in the beginning - which isn't very "scalable" in your mind. Would you consider Samsung a scalable high
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   by wushupork 13y ago

   Care to explain why this is not a startup?
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    When you get into a new car, do you want all the controls neatly laid out where you know them to be or do you want "originality & creativity". I think most people would find it less stressful and taxing and more comforted if t
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    so it's a subscription to random tickets?
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    It's great to read about stuff like this - which I would argue is what most of software business around the world is - not a hyper-growth venture funded social consumer startup not making money, but a "small" "life style
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    RedBull being a drink is much more approachable to everyone. Anyone can aspire to Redbull simply by buying the drink and consuming it in the same way people can aspire to the NorthFace brand by going in an buying and wearing it. However you
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    That's great, but I would say many young people today, their passions include surfing the net all day, playing video games, listening to free music. Not exactly a great way to build/create value.
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    5 Principles of Good Visual Design(impekable.com)

    1 points by wushupork 13y ago|0 comments
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    Definitely a part time effort. Will let you guys know how it's doing for sure.
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    Thank you so much. Hearing so many people complain about something so simple to change - it's makes you inclined to just change it though, but I hear you as well.
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    Anecdotally from people I talk to, Android users tend to be of the techy male (less likely to share quotes and use self expression tools). Also it seems that the Android crowd is used to free a lot. When Rovio charged for the iOS version of
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    Hi I'm not sure if you saw this, but you can search, filter by topics / authors so you don't have to search too much. However presenting that in the main UI is something I hadn't considered. P
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    Thanks kriven. Actually that's the #1 requested feature. So I definitely plan to add that.
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    I guess this was a link-bait tongue-in-cheek response to all the Show HN posts that look like I'm 14 and this is my first iphone app etc etc.
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    Thanks - this is definitely a side project. All of my projects start out as side projects. I'm not as fortunate as some to get funding for ideas. I'm a huge Instagram user (I created Pinstagram) and I would see a lot of people posting quote
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    I think this is enough customer feedback to let me know I should do something about this because it's such a turn off for some people - so consider it done.
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    No phonegap - this is 100% native
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    Thank you. Yeah at some point you put in so much that you just want to ship and get it out.
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    I basically scoured the web and picked the most popular quotes - quite arbitrarily. It wasn't my idea to offend anyone
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    Show HN: I'm 36 years old and this iPhone app took me forever

    22 points by wushupork 13y ago|39 comments
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    I'm sure Price Water House Coopers, Ernst & Young, IBM, Deloitte, McKenzie, and Accenture would beg to differ. Or any huge law firm for that matter.
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    by wushupork 13y ago

    One thing you could do is implement this service for your own area. If you see a need for it, chances are other people need it to.
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    by wushupork 14y ago

    What makes you qualified to start a space company? We need a bit more on the specifics.