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by bjplink 13y ago
I've been writing custom web apps for awhile now and with my less technically astute clients I usually just refer to the application as a "system" that they can access from your web browser. Eventually clients will call for h
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by bjplink 13y ago
I've had almost all of my apps rejected at least once; and in every instance is was an app update that was flagged for violating a guideline or rule it passed for on the initial release. Each time I responded with a simple "Why did this get
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by bjplink 13y ago
US Golf Courses ( http://www.usgolfcoursesapp.com ) was the first and most successful app I made back when I was starting with iOS development in the early spring of 2011. Over the course of it's lifetime it has averaged about two sales per
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by bjplink 14y ago
I've predominantly been a lurker here for quite awhile (my account is only a few hundred days older than your own) and I feel the quality is down from when I joined. Contrary to most people's opinions though I never felt the quality was all
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by bjplink 14y ago
I built something similar to this back in 2007 and while it did ok for a few years it eventually fell off of a cliff. It's difficult to compete now against free alternatives and cheap mobile apps.
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by bjplink 14y ago
I haven't tried Flurry. I had Mixpanel working so fast I didn't even bother with anything else.
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by bjplink 14y ago
I use MixPanel in my apps and found it to be very easy to implement and use: https://mixpanel.com/docs/integration-libraries/iphone
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by bjplink 14y ago
This is surprising to the OUYA folks I bet, who were very recently touting that OnLive was coming to their box.
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OnLive Said to Lay Off Entire Staff(mashable.com)
5 points by bjplink 14y ago|3 comments
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by bjplink 14y ago
I like Postmark: http://postmarkapp.com/
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Ask HN: What did you build or launch in May?
16 points by bjplink 14y ago|23 comments
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by bjplink 14y ago
My guess is that this was the crux of the breakup with 5by5. I have no idea what sponsors pay to be on 5by5 but I would be surprised if Gruber's cut of that was anywhere near $5,000 an episode. EDIT: Just for the sake of comparison here are
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by bjplink 14y ago
Your reply just reiterates my point because you're doing the same thing the post author does. In between the talk of version control, his post is laced with allusions that people working with technologies he doesn't (PHP & mySQL in this
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by bjplink 14y ago
From the article: "...but choosing to build a MySQL editor into a web development package just furthers my impression that Coda is basically designed for the php crowd." I'm not sure why that is a problem. This article by Croft is a pretty
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by bjplink 14y ago
I felt the same way as you at the time I listened to it originally but it's very possible we are over analyzing it too. One day a week I work on-site for a client and it's a monster commute. I need four hours of podcasts each week to make t
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by bjplink 14y ago
Here are the last ten seconds in the history of The Talk Show on 5by5: Benjamin: "We'll be back regular time next week, right?" Gruber: "I guess so." Benjamin: "Ok. Thanks John." Gruber: "Adios."
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by bjplink 14y ago
I'm a sports nerd but trolling all of the blogs and newspapers that cover my favorite teams is a bit much. RSS is fine but I like to keep the number of feeds I subscribe to low. My solution was to write my own RSS crawler that scans and sav
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Introducing DuckDuckHack(gabrielweinberg.com)
417 points by bjplink 14y ago|72 comments
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by bjplink 14y ago
I've been using freshbooks.com for quite awhile now and I like it a lot. I'm a one-man shop and it seems to fit my needs perfectly.
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by bjplink 15y ago
You're right. At first glance it just seemed transparent to me because it has that gradient at the bottom. A better complaint would be that since the background color of the menu matches the background of the page it's hard to make out the
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by bjplink 15y ago
If I had one tiny criticism about the site it's that the menu bar, once it detaches and scrolls with the user, is a bit hard to make out because of its transparent background.
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by bjplink 15y ago
This was my first thought as well. This is a good reason why you need to take down payments. There probably isn't a freelancer out there that hasn't wanted to do what this guy has done to a deadbeat client. I just don't see how going this r
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API Half-lives(gabrielweinberg.com)
106 points by bjplink 15y ago|44 comments
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by bjplink 15y ago
I built my first app from scratch almost entirely using Learn iPhone Programming ( http://learningiphoneprogramming.com ) by Alasdair Allan. Highly recommended.
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by bjplink 15y ago
I use Mixpanel to track interactions on my iPhone apps right now and it's really great. Highly recommended.
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by bjplink 15y ago
You could do with a demo/example I think. It's tough to even bother to signup without knowing what I'm going to be getting.
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by bjplink 15y ago
I wouldn't take any kind of recourse (legal or otherwise) and just consider yourself lucky to be only out $1,000. That they only ask for 20% upfront seems like an amateur hour move to me. I knew how this story ended right away after reading
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by bjplink 15y ago
I'm not so sure if this is true. I think the vocal minority dislikes subscriptions but there are millions and millions of WoW or XBOX Live players who don't seem to mind. And I'm sure, in the end, there will be plenty of people paying for C
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Sony responds to Congress, suggests 'Anonymous' was responsible(joystiq.com)
1 points by bjplink 15y ago|0 comments
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Sony loses 12,700 credit card numbers(joystiq.com)
267 points by bjplink 15y ago|54 comments

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