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by zmitri 13y ago
It happens all the time.
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A couple things I've noticed with most app teams/indie developers: 1) Get it in early. Either on new apis, or new hardware. Apple tends to feature apps that feature their new apis nicely. One of the reasons Instagram was promoted to heavily
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Amazon referrals are too good that there is no reason to use referly. If anyone clicks on an Amazon referral link, and ends up buying something else on the site -- not just the item you blogged about -- you still get the money and leave the
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by zmitri 13y ago
I very much agree. Photojournalism was it at peak in that era. There were tons of photoessay magazines around but they couldn't compete for ads with other forms of media and most of them shut down.
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Being young, having very strong referrals from someone who works there and demonstrating building things outside of work or above and beyond what you are supposed to be doing.
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I met one of the founders around 6 or 7 months ago. Honestly I felt like he was the first founder I'd met in NYC that wasn't a bullshitter. He was straight forward, and actually helpful. Those guys have been working on Rap Genius for years
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Author here. We are still going. The point of this article was to communicate to younger people that it is possible to go off and build something on your own. Many don't think about it or know it's possible. If you're interested, about a we
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A young person's guide to building something(blog.zmitri.com)
33 points by zmitri 13y ago|4 comments
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I was referring to actual images used or featured in the table cell, not tiled backgrounds via UIColor colorWithPatternImage like you mentioning. But yes, it is important to do that as well.
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I've suspected this was the case but never quantified it, so very cool. A couple of things I've found work very well are: 1) not creating deep view hierarchies in your table cells - ie. keep those very flat.' 2) Make your images as small a
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I think this is even more advantageous for the entrepreneurs than it is for Dalton. He is an absolute legend. He's been fed more crap, and has been on the cusp of more trends than most other entrepreneurs I can think of, and still has a kic
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Same. A lot of people don't update ever unfortunately.
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Here's my semi-educated guess on what's going on. I could be off, but I have some sense of app store ebbs and flows by now: 1) Viddy is hurting bad in terms of users -- You'll see that JJ has tens of millions of followers but the interactio
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by zmitri 13y ago
I'm from NYC and just went to SF for a week. Have to say that most people and knowledge are way more accessible there because there are just so many more startups and so much more talent. Guys like Zuck are hard to reach sure, but within a
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They have definitely been struggling and they will likely see the same churn they've had in the past. If you look at their app charts on App Annie or a similar service you can see it.
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around 3000 for a half hour or so when Blink-182 pushed out content to their social channels (Facebook/Twitter) using our site. Have also had slow build up to 2800 when one page went viral. The site/app is http://backspac.es
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Perhaps tied to the fact that devs often feel as though they have been hustled by "business" folk in the past.
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On iOS I store that info in the keychain. In database I believe it is usually stored in plain text as the user can at anytime remove access to the credentials on the 3rd party's site.
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I think there's always a difference in hustle required between a founder and an employee and how "big" you want to go. You can live a beautiful life making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as an employee and raise a wonderful family.
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I suppose I can show the emails: > Hi Dmitri, > > Thanks for applying to Counsyl back in August. At the time we didn't > have any openings in engineering but now we do. > > We'd like to schedule you for an initial ph
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by zmitri 13y ago
Their recruitment is quite annoying. I never sent in anything and they sent me emails saying thanks for applying and to fill in a slot on the calendar for when I could meet. Their approach to the process immediately turned me off.
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My Internet Problem(backspac.es)
1 points by zmitri 13y ago|0 comments
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by zmitri 14y ago
Just keep going, building, and keep applying. Don't stop for anything or anyone.
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I find it interesting that companies like Twitter and Instagram were very focused on location initially (due to their founders interest in location) but have more or less have moved away entirely. Whereas big companies that stuck it out wit
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1010data provides a web product for performing transformation on large sets of data and it's quite nice. We used it when we used to do analysis of mortgage pools etc.
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How location can become so much more(arbor.posterous.com)
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That's very interesting! I bet it took a lot of effort to do that I didn't realize how nicely it was done. There is definitely value in clips like that for fans and the artists. I see pubic statistics have been disabled, if you don't mind m
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by zmitri 14y ago
But will that video you took of Kate Nash ever be content that thousands of people would enjoy watching? That's what a startup would be betting on. If so, where would they watch it? There's a big difference between viral videos, produced vi
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by zmitri 14y ago
Why do you think mobile video will become mainstream? A lot of mobile video is hard to watch, and requires a better connection than other mediums. Vine is interesting in that the capture mechanism is interactive,but do you have any examples
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What's your take on stories told in photos -- eg this http://backspac.es/r/V0bCokJWnt/how-it-happens That was also made on a mobile phone

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