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Results of my iOS App experiments Month 1 (and a half)(zarprey.com)
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by zarprey 15y ago
I agree. Your app looks like a much better rss reader than the ones currently out there but if I can't sync it to google reader I won't use it.
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by zarprey 15y ago
From my experience free trumps paid unless the paid app is promoted by apple/lots of blogs. You may get more return users with a paid app (since they shelled out the cash they will probably want to get their money's worth) but if you're try
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How & Why I decided to learn Objective-C (as a designer)(zarprey.com)
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Some things I've learned about the process of making iOS apps.(zarprey.com)
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by zarprey 15y ago
You always have (at least) two options in life when it comes to hard experiences. 1) Allow yourself to wallow in your failure and keep yourself there by constantly focusing on the negatives of what happened. 2) Focus on the experience that
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by zarprey 15y ago
Yes, this is something we're still working on and hope to improve in subsequent versions. Most coloring book apps only allow you to fill or paint and if you are able to fill the number of areas is pretty low. We decided to go for doing ever
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by zarprey 15y ago
Some good ideas here, thanks!
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by zarprey 15y ago
Thank you, we are definitely thinking about localizing.
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by zarprey 15y ago
That's actually something we've talked about but haven't worked out the logistics of yet. :)
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by zarprey 15y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. I'll definitely look into the slow loading of the site. We've been trying to get everything together so quickly we probably didn't optimize it as much as we could have. I'll go back through and try to fix that for
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by zarprey 15y ago
Thanks for all the kind words everyone. We're really excited about this app and appreciate the help spreading it around as well as the feedback/suggestions.
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by zarprey 15y ago
thanks! really appreciate the help spreading it around.
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by zarprey 15y ago
Thanks. It's targeted for kids of all ages.
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by zarprey 15y ago
Sorry for the crashes - any chance you could let me know what device you are using it on?
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by zarprey 15y ago
Thank you and thanks for the feedback, we'll definitely look into that for the next update.
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by zarprey 15y ago
Thanks, really appreciate the help spreading the word.
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by zarprey 15y ago
Thanks! It's an iOS app written in Objective-C.
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by zarprey 15y ago
Whoops. Good point, when we swapped the site from the holding page to the launched state we forgot to add that back. I'll have to fix that.
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Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?(monstercoloringbook.com)
169 points by zarprey 15y ago|67 comments
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by zarprey 15y ago
I hadn't heard of Sinatra before. I'll check it out. Thanks!
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by zarprey 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check out the link. I know it will be hard but I'm excited to dig into something new.
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Ask HN: What should I build my webapp in?
2 points by zarprey 15y ago|5 comments
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by zarprey 15y ago
Working for a company -> Working for myself doing my own taxes -> tax lady designer -> entrepreneur saying yes to everything -> saying no trying to do everything -> focus
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by zarprey 15y ago
What a great use of a neglected space. Really inspiring project. It'd be great to do a timelapse of people writing on the wall. The variety of people would be interesting to see.
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by zarprey 15y ago
I'm working on an iphone/ipad app for kids. It's a silly thing just a coloring book but we're trying to make it better than anything else out there interface-wise and we're experimenting with in-app purchases and a bunch of other ios featur