BrandonMTurner

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by BrandonMTurner 14y ago
Boston, MA (No remote) - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com = About Lose It! = Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping them manage their weight. 8M+ iPhone Downloads (currently to
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
You are grossly underestimating the amount people would care if Facebook went offline. The world would freak out. People have memories of their lives tied up in the service with the combination of photos, friends, and messages. The pent
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
I think it is funny that the author suggests programmers should use their hobby time to work on something actually meaningful. I feel like he discounted billing systems and ecommerce in the process. I have no problem with programmers worki
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
Boston, MA (No remote) - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com = About Lose It! = Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping them manage their weight. 8M+ iPhone Downloads (currently to
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
1) The screenshots you show on apple.com / itunes / app store are showung apps I have never heard of / don't visually look that good. First thing I would do is improve the quality of the the app screenshots in your app screenshots. 2) When
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
Definitely not the top list. I opened the Health category which I follow very closely since my application is in that category. I study the top 100 app positions of many apps in the category to see how they are changing each day. I scrol
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
Boston, MA (No remote) - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com = About Lose It! = Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping them manage their weight. 8M+ iPhone Downloads (currently to
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
8 weeks = 18.8 24 weeks = 27.2 52 weeks = 33.8 These numbers are tricky though because the longer someone uses Lose It! the greater chance they hit their goal weight and no longer are trying to lose weight. Also, a lot of the really dedica
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
I suppose I am one of those people you are referring to that spread these lies and am causing a lot of damage. I make a calorie counter / weight loss app and website that is based solely on calories in versus calories out. I think you are
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
The law mostly. Otherwise ownership of companies would be mostly pointless, similar to that of gambling (in that your fate would be mostly random, more so then it currently is). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors#Duties
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
You really shouldn't be puzzled at this. It is actually pretty easy to explain if you have ever worked on a large scale website before. The problem is you begin to accrue large amounts of data and metadata (data about your data). And jus
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
If it is "just 1s and 0s", does this mean making desktop software is also 'not real work'? And thus, copying desktop software is also not problem just as copying music is not a problem. And programmers should go find a new way to make mon
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
This is a crowded space as you mentioned. I don't know why this is any different then Flipboard from reading the description, only thing maybe is that you remove advertisements and make it easier to read. However, the big difference betwe
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
Boston, MA - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com = About Lose It! = Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping them manage their weight. 8M+ iPhone Downloads (currently top 10 in Heal
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
I think people generally just have a really hard time understanding the value of a non physical good. The product I work on has this very problem. We have saved thousands of people's lives with the application we made. Seriously, we get a
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
This is not quite true. There is still reason to take funding when a startup is profitable, and it happens all the time. Off the top of my head: 1) Not making enough money to scale according to future demand 2) Want to move into country w
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
Hard to tell what you think 'cool' is. Unlikely, though for me it was cool, is ReactOS. Its a full, from the ground up operating system that is meant to be binary compatible Windows XP. I worked on it for 3 years, and I can tell you that e
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
I used to work at Microsoft, and there was a few of these type of people you described. My personal feeling is that their up sides usually even out to their downsides. However, there is a chance it really is a good idea, you really can ex
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
All starts have very small chances no matter what. Moreover, I think a cofounder would serve you very well based on some of the things you said. (Granted, with few details of your actual product, I could be completely wrong.) "I would just
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
First and foremost, suicide is not the answer. The number for the suicide hotline is 1-800-273-8255 and you should either talk with them or someone you know that is truly looking out for your best interest (this might be exclude a friend a
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
It is hard to define what the "general public" is in your post. But I will assume, that you mean, at one day will 50% of the population that has access to a computer will be able to code. And from me, I think that is an easy "No". I don't
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
Right now we make very little money from the advertisements and / or products we sell (We sell Fitbits, Withings scales, our book, tshirts). We have a strategy that we have not executed on yet but have been heads down working on for the la
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
For what its worth, this data might play a role in debate but doesn't provide proof either way: Our app is #8 in our category in the App Store and #13 in for the category in the Android Marketplace. It is free and has no advertisements; on
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
I was an active developer of ReactOS for about the time period of 2003-2007, including acting as the release engineer for the project for 2 years. I feel like I can speak from unique stand point as I saw everything from the inside. ROS is a
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
The downside for with GA is the non-realtime status. Sometimes takes more then 12 hours for the hits to come through in the dashboard. Other then that I really like it. I think Mixpanel does do realtime, but that single feature alone is
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
Square 1) They solved a really hard problem. Basically they opened channels for merchants that used to only be able to take cash to credit cards. I have already used this twice on the consumer end. Once at a concert to buy a tshirt, once
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
I was an active developer of ReactOS in 2003-2007 (this is basically where I learned to write production code if you count the code I wrote as production ready. In actuality it wasn't; and I was surprised not to see me being called out ex
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Ask HN: Can poor customer service be converted into good karma?
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
It looks pretty good and it rather snappy UI. I don't fully understand what makes this better/different then DailyBurn. I would be interested to know what kind of conversion rate you have at 10 dollars a month. A lot of fitness tracking /
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by BrandonMTurner 15y ago
I think I am probably a little above average when it comes to reading, understanding, and fixing other people's code. Here are a few things that helped me train myself: 1) I read a lot of open source code, the more you read the more aspects

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