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dtapon Ask HN: How Can We Make Our iPhone Game More Enjoyable?

I played the original game through many classes in middle school. As long as you don't have big dreams, maybe play it as an updated version of the old game. If the old game got 1000s of kids to play when the only way to transfer games was cables, you should be able to get some good traction.

dtapon For Sale: The $100 House

http://redemptionincorktown.blogspot.com/

A friend of mine's blog about buying and fixing a house in Corktown in Detroit. It is very interesting to see a dilapidated house that is from 1856 be renovated to a 4000+ sq. ft. place. He is very handy and has done habitat for humanity for years so it may be a stretch for some people to do.

Nonetheless, a personal look at white middle class living in Detroit.

dtapon Surgeons send 'tweets' from operating room

It is definitely a step in the right direction for education. However, surgery is a very experiential type of learning so the true value is limited. If it could be integrated with a live video feed would increase medical value.

As far as a good way to get people to hear about their procedure, it is very effective. It got CNN and whoever followed it on twitter to hear about their procedure.

dtapon Entrepreneurship is not about changing the world

This strikes me as very close minded. The measure of success depends on the metric. How innovative I am does not always manifest itself in money. Does that make my endeavor any less entrepreneurial? I think not.

If all you care about it money, than obviously not having it will mean you have failed. If you define your entrepreneurial spirit as something more, you are successful when you achieve that something, whatever it may be.

dtapon Are cloud services the new subprime mortgage?

Every start-up that relies on someone else (eg. Twitter) for part of their core competency is subject to the whims of that company. The risk of that happening is something that every developer must consider. Places like the App Store are relatively safe, one would think. Google closing down services certainly brings up questions as far as developing an API utilizing less popular services.

This reduction also creates opportunities. For example, Evernote made it easy to import Google Notebook data, thus gaining off of Google axing Notebook.