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isntThatSth··on Ask HN: Where can I give my app away for free?
It's essentially a find-a-name-for-your-coming-child app for expecting parents.
isntThatSth··on Ask HN: Where can I give my app away for free?
Please shoot me an email (the email address is in my bio) if you have an active Android developer account and are potentially interested in taking over the app; then I'll send you the info.
isntThatSth··on Ask HN: Anyone else tired of AI being forced on you?
Not all new tech is good. As someone who experienced life before smartphones, I can unironically and without hyperbole say that life was better back then, and people were smarter and more informed. Now imagine this dumbification on steroids: That's what the AI revolution is.
isntThatSth··on Ask HN: How do you handle small translations?
> It makes no sense to bother individual translators with such a miniscule job

You're not bothering them if you're paying for the job. On your part, all you need to do is to set up a web-based interface that makes it easy and fast for them to log in and add the translations.

isntThatSth··on Ask HN: How do you handle small translations?
Machine-created translations are bad. They've become better over time, but they're still bad. If you've ever tried having your native language butchered in the way that machine-created translations butcher my native language on the daily, you'd understand why. I suspect a lot of the push for machine translations comes from monolingual developers in Silicon Valley.
isntThatSth··on Show HN: Build web forms in rich text
It wasn't immediately obvious that the form on the page can be edited. Also, several links aren't working. While the idea might be good, some work needs to be put into telling users what this is, why they would need it, and how to use it. Good luck!
isntThatSth··on Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
Six months of darkness is a bit hyperbolic, to say the least. The sunshine, temperature and daylight situation in Denmark is on the whole comparable to what you'd find in Germany, the UK, and Northern France.

Also, long winters? You're thinking about Canada. The daily mean temperature in Aarhus, Denmark in January (the coldest month) is 1.3 C (34.3 F). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus#Climate.

By comparison, Montreal, Canada has a daily mean temperature in January of -9.2 C (15.4 F).

isntThatSth··on Ask HN: Who Is the Best Paid Email Provider? Why?
> I probably would have gone Proton but they don't support forwarding.

They do on their paid plans. https://proton.me/support/email-forwarding

isntThatSth··on Ask HN: Who Is the Best Paid Email Provider? Why?
The Proton ecosystem (email, calendar, drive, docs, password management, VPN, etc.) is great. https://proton.me
isntThatSth··on Show HN: Still coding in VC++ 6.0 after losing everything, living in a trailer
Hope everything works out for you!
isntThatSth··on Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Australia?
Fastmail.
isntThatSth··on My app charted on the App Store, and that sucked
Based on the numbers I've seen and the comments I've read here, I'd go for in-app purchases instead. Good luck with your app!
isntThatSth··on My app charted on the App Store, and that sucked
Well, in this case the screenshots show you exactly what the app provides. Having said that, in the future I'll probably go for an in-app purchase model like you suggested, given how few people download paid apps.
isntThatSth··on My app charted on the App Store, and that sucked
I have to say I don't recognize that experience at all. There are plenty of good apps - both from large companies and solo developers.
isntThatSth··on My app charted on the App Store, and that sucked
It genuinely wasn't meant as an ad. What sucked about it was realizing that every prospect I had of making money through paid apps (as opposed to apps with in-app purchases) withered away once I realized just how few downloads paid apps get.