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Finderous - Multilevel Location based Q&A iOS App

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/finderous/id520384764, http://www.findero.us

I use Dotcloud (and their hosting) to push my latest code to the servers. Once you have got hang of using dotcloud cli, it's pretty easy to use and saves a lot of time in pushing the code to the servers.

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I launched my app (Finderous) only on ios 5.x becuase 1. I didn't want to support an OS that is already shrinking in usage. 2. It's just a matter of time people will upgrade to IOS 5.x as it is free. 3. I learnt ios programming only on 5.x 4. I found it time consuming to learn pre 5.x programming once I started with 5.x :)

Thanks, that is what I plan to do. Is there anything different you would do to promote you app. Would you promote and build an impetus before the app is released or would you launch a campaign after you have released?

Thanks much. That's quite a bunch of information. I will surely go through it.

You need to be hellbent upon learning. This is how I started a few years ago. I was into C/C++ programming, but knew nothing of javascript/java/php/ etc. I didn't even know if there was any difference between java and javascript as these were not my domain. And then I just had to make this website for myself. I spend nights to learn and code (started using GWT as it was the easiest for me to pick up coming from C++ background). But later I realized it could be easier to code using jquery where I can use the object oriented programming concepts. So here is my list to get up to speed: 1. Start learning javascript (codeacademy.com is a good place to start with) and then you can go on to learn jquery. 2. PHP. 3. Read about MVC/MPV architecture. 4. HTML/CSS 5. Install WAMP/MAMP or any other such server on your computer and play with it. 6. Google any problem where you get stuck. I realized there is absolutely no problem that you can't solve. Some will be easy to solve, and some will take all the energy out of you. But the key is patience. Have patience and be persistent, you will get all the solutions you need. Same is for learning. Have patience and be persistent.

Thanks. Any suggestions on what UI element can be improved upon?

Oh, now I know why it is not showing up in the app store, I set the release date to 1st June 2012. You may still use the promo code to download the app as few of my friends have been able to download it.

Awesome. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks

I have the link, but somehow it's not opening up in iTunes: Here, you can try accessing the app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/finderous/id520384764?ls=1...

Thank you. The App status is ready for sale, so I think people can use the promo codes.

I think the best place to start learning is going through the Stanford lectures notes at http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/download... and watching the videos at http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-dev.... The strategy should be to finish one lecture in a day or two without rushing to the next lecture. Finish up the assignments and if you get stuck somewhere, search, learn, repeat. This way you would have learned quite a bit on specific topic and would be comfortable on the next topic. By lecture 10 you would be itching to write your own app, but don't succumb to the temptation and keep on finishing up the lectures. May be after lecture 18 you can explore things on your own. HTH

Well, rejection letter is just a part of the game. Now we will have to learn things on our own instead of having guidance from YC, which is kind of more work on our part. But hey, we love to work and learn, don't we? After creating drawmics.com & findero.us, I started working on a new idea, however, I applied to YC with no idea in particular as I was not sure whether to pursue it or not. In the last few weeks, my gut feeling on the success of this idea has become stronger by the day and I am actively pursuing it with my co-founder (yeah, now I have a co-founder). I hope, by the next demo day at YC, we would have already gone live.

Cool, nice project. I am also a solo founder who founded drawmics.com (a social one page comics platform). However, I didn't apply for this project, but the similarity of our projects prompted me to comment.

wow that's great. An inspiring story. I am doing a similar casual location based quiz/queries site and soon a mobile app with findero.us and I am pretty excited about it. Whether it becomes a success story like yours or not, but I got to learn a lot out of it. I hope my passion pays off.

Great tips. I will work on them to implement as you suggested. About the stream, I think I will put some images related to the question areas or may be some additional info on each question. I need to learn to be good at story telling. I have tried so many times, but this is all I could come up with. May be I should sit with my friends to come up with a good and a compelling story. Thanks for the great advice.

Thanks for the feedback. We are testing different home page designs that would give prominence to the sign up page.

Hello, we have launched a new version of the website: Drawmics.com. I would appreciate your feedback on the same as well as some answers to the questions from my first mail.

Thanks

Reformatted. Thanks.

Thanks for you comments anigbrowl, My main aim was to have drawing/sketching capability at the website with sharing feature, but users have also used the site to upload images. It is different from twitpic in the sense that it allows one to draw/edit images at the website itself using the sketchpad. And I think you are right, I need to work on the UI, and hence I have got a graphic designer friend who is working on redesigning it with uniform colors and fonts. I am using GWT to code the UI and may be there are some settings that I have not used which control the changing window sizes. I will spend some time to fix it. Since I am not a javascript/html person, I found GWT very easy to use. Do you have any recommendations for any other tools instead of using GWT?

Putting a logo at the top left corner would be more distracting, don't you think so? I would rather have it in the bottom right corner. I was thinking of creating another small strip of image containing the logo and attach it to the bottom of the main image.

The new design that we are coming up is surely clean, clutter free and more pleasant to look at. Earlier I was the only person working on it so you can imagine how tunneled my vision must have become, but now I am getting more people to work on improving the website.

The new design should give you the feeling of one course at a time of a great meal :). Thanks again for your comments, I will keep you posted here.