I am bit confused, since I am pretty new to this voting system at YC. Unless you have something useful to say for the topic, you just cannot leave a comment saying you like/dislike it?
I go to pennstate as well and I completely agree with you on this. I hate angel because it sucks.
I am a part of a startup Watermelon Express and we are developing a platform Web/Desktop/Mobile which syncs, has chat rooms, secure system and content. Even if the universities don't accept it as a universal platform, we are hoping students will use it because of the convenience factor. It is not mentioned anywhere on our website, because it is still 2-3 months away from beta launch.
Very interesting article. IMO, vision is important, but without having the ability to execute it, its essentially worthless. When we launched a lot of people said and some still say that they had similar ideas, but it was us who executed it.
I would say it depends upon what is it for, how much you sold it for and what claims you made when you sold it to the customer.
We are lining up server side apps for test preparation. If we ever stop server side, we will stop selling the app 3 months prior to server halt, post a notice about the same and boom.
I have more than 20 apps on the appstore. None of my apps have more than 20 reviews, so I cannot judge these numbers. This might be true for 99 cents app, but I am not sure how directly correlated will this be for >$4.99 apps.
I agree completely. I have spend close to $500 on admob and no conversion at all. I am pretty sure that there is a huge click fraud going on. The worst part is $100 runs out as if $100 worth of advertising means nothing. I am not going to use admob for quite some time and I have more than 20 apps on the appstore of which quite a few have been in top 20 in education and quite a few of them have been in top 100 for some time now even at $9.99 and $14.99 price point.
It just makes me laugh when I read posts by big publishers like Business Week write articles like these without adding or crediting any costs that were put into research/design/development/marketing/distribution etc., etc. And then average Joe swearing that these big companies are looting people by asking for so much money which costs so less to produce. Idiots!!!
I tried it for a couple of keywords with different ways of sorting and it seems to be working great.
My personal feedback for this would be: to make it sticky you need to have something similar to what google news webpage looks like and have 3 sections (controversial, popular, engaging) in every section. And then you should have similar features (keyword news and number of news article in every section) and I will make it my homepage, no kidding. Currently, you are not utilizing the complete web space very efficiently.
Another point I want to add, is if this is possible, your algorithm should definitely be added into any search engine page rank system to not only get rid of click fraud but also improve the searches.
I think the concept is very intriguing and if what you say is what is on your site and you have actually made it by collecting all the information in the last 3 years from all the major news websites, I think you will end up being bought pretty soon. Rather, what you should do is patent your process asap, if you haven't done it already and then license it. Amazing and good luck.
I loved that show. I wish they make a movie out of it of course with the same cast and there are sequels after sequels of it. Even if they turn out to be terrible, I am going to enjoy every tid-bit of those movies, because I loved the characters. It was awesome!! Bring it back, please. :)
We are planning to submit to tc50. Our product is going to launch around the same time. We haven't mention it on our website, but it is on the same lines as our iPhone, desktop products but better and more far reaching. :)
on the same lines does anyone that how it is possible for a developer to be able to do everything from downloading the development kit to creating provisioning profiles and certificates, binary and uploading it without being able to access the contracts/sales/finance report?
I like a lot of what google does. Rather, I am addicted to a lot of google services. But its right about time that there is some competition in search space with google. Monopoly of anyone is not good. I am a Bing man now. :) I love a lot of things about bing: interface for video/image search, cashback and the ability to watch previews of video without leaving the page, thus, saving a lot of time.
The point I am saying is that when I buy the book, I can do whatever I want with the content as long as it is for my own personal use and am not distributing it. I am not sure why you think its not true or nonsensical by any means. And the same is true for software.
All they should do is void warranty if someone tempers with the OS. Same for books.
what the hell are you talking about? I make my own notes within a book. A lot of times I even add things I have read from other sources in the book I buy. Once I own the book, I am allowed to do anything with it as long as I am using it for my own personal use.