tobydownton

Do they format correctly that way? I use Calibre to convert EPUBs to MOBI and then email them to my Kindle account.

Except that all Chinese exchanges / ICOs got banned a couple of months ago. The US is probably that largest market, it's the home of Coinbase ... I just don't see what you are basing this assertion on.

I came here to see if anyone would mention blockchain technology (which I personally believe is an important part of the solution). Yes, there are the DApps you've already mentioned, but I think the following might be as important in addressing the concern raised:

uPort: Self-Sovereign Identity (https://www.uport.me/)

Userfeeds - Content Ranking System (userfeeds.io/)

Status - Messaging Platform (https://status.im/)

Brave - Browser (https://brave.com/)

An interesting article that I thought was flawed in one major way - the omission of her paintings. Was the one at the top of the article by her? (it doesn't say, and I'm not about to use reverse image search to find out). A real shame, I thought.

As a new author looking to get his work out there I was interested to take a look around ... and slightly disappointed that you don't tell me anything about the site! (the kind of stuff you explain below, where you say you want to "make fictionhub a perfect place for writers to post and discuss fiction. It is like a blogging platform with discovery system and community features of reddit.")

I would suggest including an easy to find About page where you explain the value of the site to people (both authors and readers).

As it is, I looked around for ten seconds and wondered what the value proposition was.

Good luck!

I wrote and published a novel about a game played in virtual reality in the year 2020 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZFF6NVK). It came out three weeks ago and has been providing "holiday money" rather than just "beer money" so far.

My grand vision is to create the game in the book for real, to launch in 2020, just like in the book (more info here: solarversia.com/about/). It's had a great reception so far (I've targeted Ready Player One fans) and I'm in the process of bringing on non-execs to Spiralwerks, the company behind the game (which features heavily in the book), and also talking to agents who might want to represent me for a traditional publishing deal. Meeting my first VC next week.

If it wasn't obvious, I'm hoping for a big wave of publicity when Oculus / Morpheus / HTC Vive et al launch next year.

Oh yeah, my London Live interview where I discuss the big vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bo0u3C5D-Y

If you know anyone in VR / publishing, I'd love an intro.... :-)

Awesome, thanks for saying so. I'll dm you website details, but for anyone else reading the thread: http://solarversia.com/about/

Hey, sorry the late reply! I already read RPO as soon as someone else told me about it, and I absolutely loved it! Thanks so much for mentioning it. I'm even going to brand Solarversia as:

"Hunger Games meets Ready Player One"

(but someone told me it work better using Hitchhiker's Guide as more people know it.)

This is the single best article I've read that explains why I'm writing the novel I'm writing.

It's called Solarversia, and it's about a game played in Virtual Reality by 100m people in the year 2020. I'm going to publish it on the same day that Oculus Rift goes on sale to the public, and plan to make the game for real by using the profits from the book / film to form a company (the same one mentioned in the book). My entire marketing plan is based around the book and my lofty (naive / innocent / stupid) aim is to create "the" VR app, or at least one of the VR apps that everyone knows and loves.

It's the first time in my life (I'm 38) that I feel like I'm ahead of the curve on something. Exciting times.

Asana

I just started as a BA at Westminster, currently working on customer journeys and user stories, redesigned website and content to follow early next year....watch this space...!

I found the suggestion that there will only be 50 billion things connected by 2020 a little surprising, given that "in 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on earth".

Wow. The first comment on HN in a long while that made we wish for a down arrow.

Why is it lame/appalling? I've read the comments on the blog post and apparently the "duino" name isn't trademarked, and therefore they are quite within their right to use a variation of it (however lame it may appear).

Further commentary reveals that the people who have backed this guy are happy that he is the real deal, and that the problem has mostly stemmed from English being his second language, leading to a mis-communication over quite what part they had in manufacturing arduinos in Italy.

This was the line that really grabbed me: "I’ve come to believe that a good cry is like a carwash for the soul." Beautiful!

One of the most interesting investigations into luck was last year's show The Experiments: The Secret of Luck, by Derren Brown. The entire episode is avaiable on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mN33w5Ftw

I would heartily recommend anyone watch it, it certainly enhanced my own understanding of the concept.

People love start-up stories and case studies, this will be a real-time version, I'm off to make some popcorn, best of luck!

That's good to hear, thank you very much!

Thanks StavrosK, yes, I probably should have provided some more detail around that. We're addressing what we see as the "Game Show problem" i.e. the fact that there aren't any Game Shows that people can play from the comfort of their own home over the internet - why is that? We think we know why and will use a unique approach to address that. So we're creating an online Game Show, one that anyone can play i.e. you get to be an actual contestant who can win real prizes. We're aiming to launch early next year...

I've seen the feedback for Fohr's mantra (all of which I agree with) and was wondering whether I could get feedback for our mantra/tagline (note: we are still building prototype, nothing to show yet).

Tagline is: "The Game Show We Can All Play"

Any feedback welcome, thanks