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n9com

937 karma · joined April 1, 2009

Founder of FIPLAB Ltd - iOS/Mac Apps

Our apps have been downloaded over 35 million times. We have over 550,000 daily active users.

https://www.fiplab.com

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n9com··on Ask HN: Is offering a one-time payment stupid?
Yes, it can work. You should test it out. However from experience, getting customers on a subscription is normally better, especially if you're looking for an exit in the future.
n9com··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
highly likely they have millions from the stock alone, assuming they didnt sell
n9com··on Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring
Well done on launching.

1. The price should better highlighted on the website, it's not very visible. 2. How do you even sign up to the plan? Add a pricing/purchase page. 3. $10/week is dirt cheap 4. If you're serious about this, please invest in better UX/UI

n9com··on CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
They've been doing this since April 202 [1]. Early reports also found on reddit with people being concerned. We too received quite a few of these emails over the last few days from various fake idenities and wasted time responding to one of them before realising it was not legit!

I can't imagine how much time and potentially money was wasted on these mass emails.

[1] https://joewein.net/blog/2021/04/21/questions-about-gdpr-dat...

n9com··on I started a paper website business
How are you handling international tax?
n9com··on Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops
Glad to see more people working in this space. Hopefully you will be able to treat food allergies in a similar way, e.g. working up the milk ladder with a set course of pills.

My son was born with multiple food allergies, and whilst he has outgrown some, the current approach here is 'wait and hope they grow out of it' or 'try introducing the allergens very gradually so that the immune system learns to not react to the allergen').

One suggestion - state what allergies you can currently treat above the fold. I shouldn't need to scroll down to learn it is only for pollen, pet, and dust allergies. Best of luck!

n9com··on Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
I like the concept, but what you are offering isn't really comparable to Premium Bonds in the UK. The prizes in Premium Bonds are guaranteed every month. It's a raffle where every £1 deposited gives you a unique Bond ID. This is totally different from a lottery where the prizes are not guaranteed to be awarded for every draw.
n9com··on Launch HN: The Lobby (YC W18) – 1-on-1 calls with company insiders to get hired
"But the main point here is: this knowledge is not rocket science. Any analyst at a specific team in Goldman Sachs or Merrill Lynch will have very similar answers on how to land the job. That's what we see at The Lobby too."

Isn't this generic info on 'how to get a job in investment banking' already available on numerous websites for free? What unique value will insiders add compared to what has already been published? You've already stated the answers would be very similar between analysts/banks.

n9com··on Show HN: Infinity Dashboard for Mac
We’re super excited to be launching Infinity Dashboard for Mac - a beautifully organized app for keeping track of virtually anything that’s important to you.

Our app has over 35 bundled modules, such as current weather, exchange rates, stock prices, countdown reminders, Amazon product price tracking, App Store sales, Clicky web stats, travel times, Zendesk open tickets, Fitbit stats, YouTube subscribers, Facebook fans and so much more. See the full list here: http://infinitydashboard.com/

What’s also great is that you can easily create custom modules to work within the app. All you need is knowledge of Javascript and to follow our super straightforward documentation. View our open source Github module repo here: https://github.com/fiplab/Infinity-Dashboard-Modules

We’d love to get your feedback on our version 1.0 - Anyone can try out the app for free for 7 days. Also, as a thank you, you can grab a 20% discount using coupon code: INFINITY20 if you decide you want to purchase the app :)

Also let us know if you think of a module we should consider adding to the app!

n9com··on Sourced Adventures – Adventure Travel Startup generating $125K/month
Why does it say 'Annual Recurring Revenue' on their chart? How is it 'Recurring', it's not like it's subscription based? It's straight up revenue.
n9com··on Introducing unlimited private repositories
This change worked out well for us. Gone from paying $200/month to just $25/month for our 5 person organisation.
n9com··on OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild
Our app, Download Shuttle, has nothing whatsoever to do with this malware. We have no idea why the malware creator decided to open up Download Shuttle in the Mac App Store.

We can only speculate that it was done in order to disguise what the malware is really doing (installing adware such as Genieo).

Download Shuttle is a free app and makes up an insignificant part of our overall Mac app portfolio. FIPLAB is one of the longest standing app developers on the Mac App Store and our apps have been featured multiple times by Apple themselves.

Perhaps you shouldn't jump to conclusions?

n9com··on Minimum salary required in London: £500k?
Title should be 'Minimum salary required in London to live a life of luxury: £500k'
n9com··on Apple App Store STATUS_CODE_ERROR causes service problems
CNBC are reporting Apple made the following statement:

“We apologize to our customers experiencing problems with iTunes and other services this morning. The cause was an internal DNS error at Apple. We’re working to make all of the services available to customers as soon as possible, and we thank everyone for their patience.”

n9com··on Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers
We are running a Black Friday Mac App Bundle here: http://bundle.fiplab.com/
n9com··on Ask HN: Who is Co-Founding?
Is this like PaintCode or different?
n9com··on Vegetarian/Vegan food finder for London
Nice! Very useful, thank you :)
n9com··on Bitbucket passes one million users
We saved hundreds of dollars a month moving over to BitBucket last year.
n9com··on Outbox – A beautiful inbox for postal mail
Why would you want other people reading through your postal mail?
n9com··on Poll: long-term contractors, what is your hourly rate?
I know of lawyers who charge $20,000 for a 15 minute court appearance. They represent billionaires.
n9com··on Craftstud.io - A Game to Make Games (now in beta)
Very cool - this will get a lot of kids (and adults) into creating great little games! Kudos.
n9com··on Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes
you probably would have if you were top 3 grossing overall
n9com··on Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes
This is pretty unbelievable. Refreshed at 10:00 and the site was already down with a "we'll be back soon" message.

Obviously, the bigger devs would have got their tickets days (weeks?) ago.

n9com··on My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
Great stunt to get on front page of HN. Keep on hustling!
n9com··on How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business
Posting turnover of $4M without discussing your costs means this article lacks credibility. It would have been better to state your actual profit.

Is it 4m/year revenue with 1m in profit, or is 50k in profit... makes a big difference.

n9com··on Switch to Posthaven
yup, we only do around 200 to 250GB a month. We use them to serve very small files. We switching from AWS as they charge per request, whereas MaxCDN do not.
n9com··on Switch to Posthaven
MaxCDN guys are on top of things. Great service from them for over a year. No issue and handles 550k unique daily visitors with no problem.
n9com··on Ask HN: My game was just featured in the Windows 8 app store, what do I do next?
Featuring doesn't really have a big impact - take it from someone who has had two apps featured on the w8 store.
n9com··on Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
Use a double enter space.
n9com··on Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
1. JIRA (Issue Tracking) 2. BitBucket (Source code hosting) 3. Desk (Customer Support) 4. MailChimp (Newsletter / Email marketing) 5. ServInt (Web hosting)
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