alexlin

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by alexlin 7y ago
The tweet from Wunderlist's Christian ( https://twitter.com/christianreber/status/117061566332663808... ) reminds me a lot of Taskade YC S19 ( https://www.taskade.com ) and what they are trying to do
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Hush (YC S16) Is Hiring a Senior Back End Engineer in Downtown Los Angeles(careers.shophush.com)
1 points by alexlin 9y ago
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Hush (YC S16) Is Hiring a Senior Back End Developer(careers.shophush.com)
1 points by alexlin 9y ago
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Hush (YC S16) Is Hiring a SSE (Back End)(shophush.applytojob.com)
1 points by alexlin 9y ago
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Come Build Games with LVL6 (YC W12)
1 points by alexlin 14y ago
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by alexlin 14y ago
already signed up. get at me.
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by alexlin 14y ago
it's crazy it's taken facebook this long to actually give fan-specific insights data... great read.
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by alexlin 14y ago
hey man, that's not cool.
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by alexlin 14y ago
wow... guess i've been optimizing for the wrong things. awesome post.
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Come Make Social Mobile Games with LVL6 (YC W12)(lvl6.com)
1 points by alexlin 14y ago
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by alexlin 14y ago
Hmm.. this is a really cool feature, but I think I saw it first on http://minus.com .
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Will apple allow developers to ban itunes accounts to stop scam?(insidemobileapps.com)
4 points by alexlin 15y ago|0 comments
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CC/iTunes Hackers Laundering Money?(pocketgamer.biz)
7 points by alexlin 15y ago|2 comments
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by alexlin 15y ago
I strongly agree with this. Here's an idea: Why doesn't Apple take the Amazon/Netflix approach and add a recommendations engine? For example, if I was a big fan of iMobsters (and I spent a lot of $$$ in it, it would have a few categories.)
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by alexlin 15y ago
Except that isn't the case. Almost all of the dominant players in the social mobile gaming space have used bots, and are thriving. That's not to say the bad apps didn't use it as well, but their users' LTVs never backed out BECAUSE they wer
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by alexlin 15y ago
Bots don't exist on Android, but incent PPI does. It doesn't matter about the # of installs he gets because Android takes into account uninstall rates as well as your app ratings. If he's ranked higher than you, he's most likely hitting the
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by alexlin 15y ago
That's not necessarily true. Bad apps will naturally drop. App ratings don't lie (at least to some extent.) You also have to account for the LTV of users. If it's not backing out (which is most likely for a bad app), they're just wasting th
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by alexlin 15y ago
It varies. But $5k means their app can take a trip to the top 25 and gain around 8k organic users/day. You know where $5k in shotty banner ads gets you? ~2k organics tops. Prove me wrong that $5k is a lot easier to scrape together than say.
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by alexlin 15y ago
You're twisting my words. Are you really so naive to believe that if you make a great app that you're automatically going to climb to the Top 25? Try navigating the app store. Tell me how you discover apps. A great app that was released is
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by alexlin 15y ago
And marketing as a concept isn't? Why aren't people rallying against Tapjoy when they're incentivizing people to download apps in exchange for virtual currency? As long as you pay $20-30k, you have enough downloads to breach the top 25. Or
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by alexlin 15y ago
I personally don't understand why "bot farms" are that "scummy" or unfair. It was possibly the best way for the average indie developer to stand out without a large wallet (to buy banners). This rash of a problem is even more aggravated eve
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Come Make Social Games with Us
1 points by alexlin 15y ago
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by alexlin 15y ago
Putting aside all the costs of how much it costs to recruit a talented engineer/designer, I think the current monetization model these guys are using for the site is terrible for gaining traction. When I first saw this on HN, I thought, "Sw
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by alexlin 15y ago
though I myself hail from babson, sad to see the top entrepreneurial school discouraging entrepreneurial endeavors.
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by alexlin 15y ago
awesome possum. definitely been waiting for the chrome extension.