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IPhone App Helps You Discover Upcoming Movies (YCS11)
- Urgo 15y agoHows that android version coming..
- ericflo 15y agoRight now tabs work and click properly. It loads data from our HTTP API and displays it in an ugly way, and trailers do play in a basic way on the Android version. tl;dr: I'm actively working on it, but I don't want to promise a release date just yet.
- dannyr 15y agoIf you are not embarrassed with your 1st release, you've waited too long. Release it now! ;-)
- bignoggins 15y agothat strategy does not apply to mobile apps. You need a polished product before you release.
- dannyr 15y agoYo guys. It's a joke. I'm friends with the founders.
- flyosity 15y agoI know this was said tongue-in-cheek but as the founder noted below, if you release a half-baked iPhone app you're done. Dead in the water. Nobody cares or will write about your 1.5 version when you finally polish the turd of the 1.0. It's all about the launch, not iteration, on the App Store.
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- w1ntermute 15y agoI wonder how much more ahead of the iPhone it has to pull in marketshare before mobile app developers consider releasing an Android app to be of equal priority.
- wgx 15y agoRemember that Hunch piece about the demographics of Android vs iOS users? http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/hunch-droid-vs-ios-640.jpg http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/wp-content/uploads/2011/... Maybe that's a factor over and above adoption numbers.
- vrikhter 15y agoLove the juxtaposition! Microsoft BizSpark sponsoring a section highlighting an iPhone app. :)
- chrischen 15y agoI Can't Wait to win my free movie ticket.
- ericflo 15y agoThere's a decent chance that'll happen if you use the app :) http://i.imgur.com/yFPbP.png http://i.imgur.com/yFPbP.png (Keep in mind that's just the people who decided to share, and to share to Twitter instead of e.g. Facebook.)
- fauigerzigerk 15y agoI'm worried about the apparent disconnect between my brain and the world of web startups or maybe even simply the world. I think YC numbers are proof enough that startups like this can become popular and commercial successes. Yet as someone who likes movies and watches a lot of them it's completely beyond me how something like this could ever be more than a minor feature of some movie site, one that is trivial to copy for anyone in the space with the advantage of an existing user base. I have no reason whatsoever to trash this startup, quite the contrary, I'm in a completely different space and I wish only the best to any and all fellow startup founders. I'm just honestly puzzled, fully aware that it's probably me who is going to be wrong again. I'm just wondering if anyone else is struggling to convince themselves to take something as simple as this and run with it in a crowded market. Even if I had the slightest interest in solving this problem, I just couldn't bring myself to believe in it and that might be why I will very likely never strike it rich.
- emmett 15y agoIf I had to guess, I'd say that they have a larger vision that what you see today is just the first step of. Remember that Microsoft started with Basic on the Altair. Just because a startup seems unimpressive when they release their first product doesn't mean that they're not building in an important space.
- flyosity 15y agoEvery time someone says that I'm reminded of Color. Every article said they were going to do 50 new things that were coming after the iPhone app was a big success (they needed data to do the 50 other things) but when the iPhone app tanked so did the genesis of the other ideas.
- emmett 15y agoNot every startup which seems to have a limited first product goes on to do great things. But of the startups which have gone on to do great things, many have had limited first products. Therefore, it's not much of a commentary on a new startup to say their first product is limited, because you don't know where they're headed. It's better to focus on whether the first product is good at what it does and makes people happy.
- Inufu 15y agoLove the app, but please make an iPad version. (doesn't need to be pretty, just play the trailers in fullscreen)
- bignoggins 15y ago10,000 copies in one month strikes me as extremely low for a free app.
- ericflo 15y agoIt's been 2 weeks.
- bignoggins 15y agostill pretty low, that's 700/day. I've never released a free app that didn't get < 1,000 d/l a day, and my apps are niche apps with no advertising or marketing at all. I would remove the 10,000 copies reference because anyone who has any experience on the app store would see that those numbers are very low. It's like bragging about a 3.0 GPA.
- ericflo 15y agoWe cannot "remove the 10,000 copies reference" because this was an article written about us, not by us. Also, we like the way our graphs are inflecting. In the first week we pushed way less than 700/day and in the second week we pushed way more. Dividing it out and saying 700/day is a bit simplistic. In any case, I fail to see the purpose of your comments. What's the goal?
- djb_hackernews 15y agoI released a free app last week. No marketing or advertising. It's got 2 downloads, and one of those was me.
- pclark 15y agoHow did you get those downloads?
- judofyr 15y agoericflo: What's happening to Convore now?
- pud 15y agoJust installed it. I wish it would let me browse movies by genre. Unless I'm missing it, there's no way to do that.
- ericflo 15y agoThanks for the feedback! You're not missing it, we haven't quite built browse-by-genre yet. Early users didn't mention it, but just recently we've heard this feedback from quite a few people, so it's definitely on the list.