markrickert

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   by markrickert 12y ago

   There's way too many reddit things already out there... I was trying to tap a market that doesn't have lots of enthusiastic software developers. oh.... wait...
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   by markrickert 12y ago

   Nice! I'll be changing my Mac system tray app HackerBar over to use this instead of some Objective-C scraping magic that it uses now: http://hackerbarapp.com/
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   by markrickert 12y ago

   I have a plethora of niche-based iOS apps for skydivers, beer enthusiasts, and people in direct sales. Bring in about 1-2k a month, but I actively maintain about half of the apps and am actively developing new apps. Since January, I've
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   by markrickert 12y ago

   TLDR: "We just started using this thing. It's pretty cool, but we're not going to tell you anything other than you should use it. Here's some DSLs for it."
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   Fireworks refugees Welcome to the open arms of Sketch 3(medium.com)

   2 points by markrickert 12y ago|0 comments
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   by markrickert 12y ago

   Thanks! :P
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   by markrickert 13y ago

   I DON'T TALK TO RECRUITERS! I'm amazed at how quickly the reporter turned around that story. I talked to her yesterday afternoon. Also unexpected: my face in the article, lol.
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   by markrickert 13y ago

   > We don’t see Google services go down once a month. In the last couple of years I haven’t seen any Google services I use to down at all even. http://www.google.com/appsstatus
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   by markrickert 13y ago

   I've built a successful side business ( http://www.mohawkapps.com ) and was even featured in an e-book: http://www.sideprojectbook.com/ - by creating iPhone apps for niche markets and marketing heavily to the
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    That's exactly it. Lots of small products with microtransactions targeted towards niche markets that i barely have to touch. Passive income generation is one of the pinnacles of what we as software engineers can do.
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    Problem I'm currently working on: How to make a long tail of passive income.
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    Why Is Silicon Valley So Interested in Meat Alternatives? [video](skookum.com)

    1 points by markrickert 13y ago|0 comments
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    "Houston" is already the name of a popular open source project by Mattt Thompson - https://github.com/nomad/houston
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    Correct - UICollectionView also uses delegates, dataSources, and reusable cells.
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    Thanks for the link to my app and for citing it as inspiration!
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    My buddy Corey designed it - https://twitter.com/cdugd
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    Thank you, gracious master.
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    Hey, sorry about that. I've fixed the page and it should work now!
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    Ha! Yep. That's me. Here's a blog post about why I open source all my apps and sell them too http://blog.markrickert.me/why-i-open-source-all-my-rubymoti...
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    I saw this before deciding to build my own... it's just a webview and is a lot slower than mine. My app is completely native with no webviews whatsoever. So faster and less memory intensive :)
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    I've changed the price to $1.99 if you quit the App Store app and reload it, the price will be $1.99!
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    Hacker Bar - an open source RubyMotion Mac app for Hacker News(hackerbarapp.com)

    34 points by markrickert 13y ago|32 comments
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    Congrats! I was an AirPair expert a while back and had a great experience. Providing a marketplace like this is a fantastic idea and i'm happy they're getting some industry backing!
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    That's a horrible readme.
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    AA won't ever go out of business... they're "too big to fail." I'm sure they'll just be absorbed into "US Government Airlines" when that time comes.
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    Error: failed to fetch user profile (status: 403 data: {"message":"Maximum number of login attempts exceeded","documentation_url":" http://developer.github.com/v3"} ) at Strategy.us
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    Terminal Cornucopia(terminalcornucopia.com)

    1 points by markrickert 13y ago|0 comments
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    He's talking about the cost of RubyMotion - $200
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    by markrickert 13y ago

    https://www.gittip.com/jamonholmgren/
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    Introducing ProMotion, a Full-Featured RubyMotion Application Framework(blog.rubymotion.com)

    84 points by markrickert 13y ago|25 comments