tomdeal

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by tomdeal 10y ago
The author seems to want to return to "Create games as a hobby" instead of having an industry that creates the best creative jobs involving a computer. There has been so much development in the last 10 years in computer games that
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I shut down my app after 3 years of struggle & 10 minutes of database analysis(blog.dievolution.com)
1 points by tomdeal 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomdeal 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote possible - located in Frankfurt/Main, Germany I’m a web developer doing frontend (Javascript, Coffeescript) and backend (Ruby, Rails, node.js, PHP) work with 7 years of experience and graduated as “Mediengestalter” and
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The story of my first mobile app(blog.dievolution.com)
2 points by tomdeal 14y ago|0 comments
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by tomdeal 14y ago
Be aware that the key for saints row does not work when you are in Germany. Luckily, the humble bundle support is good and will help you out if you have problems, at least they helped me very fast :) It would be even nicer though if they w
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by tomdeal 15y ago
thanks, you are right about the landing page. This is one of the things you just forget about when you develop the whole app, but its the first thing the future users see, so it should be really nice. will start working on it immediately
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by tomdeal 15y ago
Yes, getting users is the first obstacle, where I really got problems with. If you are developing apps and doing websites 24/7, its really hard to be a marketing expert, too, thats what my blogpost is about.
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by tomdeal 15y ago
I would lie if I said I didnt write the story to generate some buzz for the game, but I really think if I have those problems, many others have them, too. There must be ways for developers to market their ideas, people who can't be 24/7 onl
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The developer dilemma: idea is easy, building is easy, selling is impossible(blog.dievolution.net)
10 points by tomdeal 15y ago|6 comments
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by tomdeal 15y ago
That is a really nice collection. I think many of us are in the situation to have great products, but don't have the money to create a big marketing campaign or even buy a few ads to deliver it. One thing: keep the dark color scheme, but do
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by tomdeal 15y ago
I like the pomodoro technique, obviously, because I created an online tool for it, http://www.pomodorohelper.com . The technique has one major advantage over GTD and other systems (and I tried them all...), it is damn simple. You don't eve
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by tomdeal 15y ago
First I wanted to use an existing game engine too, but I decided to write everything myself to get a better understanding of how canvas etc. works. Do you have any gameplay videos, yet?
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by tomdeal 15y ago
thanks :) wasnt my intention do advertise the game (yet), but I'm working full time on it, so it makes progress. I also plan to release the engine as open source in the future, once it is more stable and has better documentation.
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by tomdeal 15y ago
I think HTML5 is the future of application development. It has some very specific advantages compared to native apps, and we will see a lot more web apps with unique abilites. There is an interesting talk about that topic from the google io
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by tomdeal 15y ago
Interesting post, though I don't agree with the last point. A good rails developer will present himself as a rails developer, even if he does other things. A typical rails app includes html, javascript, maybe even xml or some other fancy st
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by tomdeal 16y ago
Its quite hard to follow the interview because of all the noise around the office there, too bad. With all the money, they should have built a small room with good noise reduction for calls or... interviews :)
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by tomdeal 16y ago
This is very general speaking. Of course, make something people need is good, because you have a nice niche then to sell something, but I think it is not accurate enough. Everything a person needs are 4 walls, a roof, something to eat and s
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by tomdeal 16y ago
indeed! gotta save this quote somewhere :)
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by tomdeal 16y ago
I'd definetly go for the framework approach. After building apps with and without frameworks, its a lot less painful to build upon something which exists already. There are so many advantages to go framework, I can't tell everyone: - framew
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by tomdeal 16y ago
Interesting data, but unfortunately nothing you can see a trend in (other than the most well known companies have the most followers). One good advice you can take from this data: If you want to have many followers, you have to tweet more t
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by tomdeal 16y ago
Disclaimer: My experiences are based on the current german web landscape, so I don't know if this is true for other countries. I don't include IE6 anymore in my web pages. If it works, ok, if not, well... too bad. In the last year, no custo
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by tomdeal 16y ago
The Kinect is a very interesting piece of technology. Because it is REAL. You can buy it, you can use it. Of course, it is not the end of the mouse and keyboard as we know today, because it is just the first step, but it is here, not just a
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by tomdeal 16y ago
As someone with not such a Karma rating yet, I find it difficult to get feedback from HN. You only show up for 30 minutes up to two hours (depends on when you post) on the new posts list and then you vanish forever. You should not repost, o
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by tomdeal 16y ago
I like the "new" 5by5 podcast "Back to Work". It has some interesting informations about how to be more productive and follows the opinion of seth godin's linchpin, most of the tim. Additionally, the hosts are funny, especially Merlin Mann,
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Pre-launch last minute checklist for web projects (blog.dievolution.net)
2 points by tomdeal 16y ago|0 comments
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by tomdeal 16y ago
What do you mean exactly with responsive and snappy? Not loading fast enough? There is definitely a problem when using this game on a mobile device with a 3G connection, but on a normal dsl/cable connection, at least for me, it runs very s
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by tomdeal 16y ago
lol, what a start... I thought I had checked everything, no errors on the page itself, no serious bugs, a nice introduction text... and then my www. subdomain did not work! Sorry! If you want to try TRZZL, use http://trzzl.co while the DN
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Show HN: TRZZL.co - a Google maps puzzle game
2 points by tomdeal 16y ago|4 comments
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by tomdeal 16y ago
I think the title of the book is misleading, it should be "the 4 hour work and 30 hour doing something you like that pays your bills week". But it is a lot catchier to call it 4 hour work week, which in my opinion is the only negative thing
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Tourscript, lightweight jquery script for building site tours(tourscript.dievolution.com)
2 points by tomdeal 16y ago|0 comments

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