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Boston, MA (No remote) - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com = About Lose It! = Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping th…

You are grossly underestimating the amount people would care if Facebook went offline. The world would freak out. People have memories of their lives tied up in the service with th…

I think it is funny that the author suggests programmers should use their hobby time to work on something actually meaningful. I feel like he discounted billing systems and ecommer…

Boston, MA (No remote) - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com = About Lose It! = Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping th…

1) The screenshots you show on apple.com / itunes / app store are showung apps I have never heard of / don't visually look that good. First thing I would do is improve the quality …

Definitely not the top list. I opened the Health category which I follow very closely since my application is in that category. I study the top 100 app positions of many apps in th…

Boston, MA (No remote) - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com = About Lose It! = Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping th…

8 weeks = 18.8 24 weeks = 27.2 52 weeks = 33.8 These numbers are tricky though because the longer someone uses Lose It! the greater chance they hit their goal weight and no longer …

I suppose I am one of those people you are referring to that spread these lies and am causing a lot of damage. I make a calorie counter / weight loss app and website that is based …

The law mostly. Otherwise ownership of companies would be mostly pointless, similar to that of gambling (in that your fate would be mostly random, more so then it currently is). ht…

You really shouldn't be puzzled at this. It is actually pretty easy to explain if you have ever worked on a large scale website before. The problem is you begin to accrue large amo…

If it is "just 1s and 0s", does this mean making desktop software is also 'not real work'? And thus, copying desktop software is also not problem just as copying music is not a pro…

This is a crowded space as you mentioned. I don't know why this is any different then Flipboard from reading the description, only thing maybe is that you remove advertisements and…

Boston, MA - Full Time - http://www.loseit.com = About Lose It! = Lose It! is a popular iPhone / Android / Website application that changes people's lives by helping them manage th…

I think people generally just have a really hard time understanding the value of a non physical good. The product I work on has this very problem. We have saved thousands of people…

This is not quite true. There is still reason to take funding when a startup is profitable, and it happens all the time. Off the top of my head: 1) Not making enough money to scale…

Hard to tell what you think 'cool' is. Unlikely, though for me it was cool, is ReactOS. Its a full, from the ground up operating system that is meant to be binary compatible Window…

I used to work at Microsoft, and there was a few of these type of people you described. My personal feeling is that their up sides usually even out to their downsides. However, the…

All starts have very small chances no matter what. Moreover, I think a cofounder would serve you very well based on some of the things you said. (Granted, with few details of your …

First and foremost, suicide is not the answer. The number for the suicide hotline is 1-800-273-8255 and you should either talk with them or someone you know that is truly looking o…

It is hard to define what the "general public" is in your post. But I will assume, that you mean, at one day will 50% of the population that has access to a computer will be able t…

Right now we make very little money from the advertisements and / or products we sell (We sell Fitbits, Withings scales, our book, tshirts). We have a strategy that we have not exe…

For what its worth, this data might play a role in debate but doesn't provide proof either way: Our app is #8 in our category in the App Store and #13 in for the category in the An…

I was an active developer of ReactOS for about the time period of 2003-2007, including acting as the release engineer for the project for 2 years. I feel like I can speak from uniq…

The downside for with GA is the non-realtime status. Sometimes takes more then 12 hours for the hits to come through in the dashboard. Other then that I really like it. I think Mix…