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There's way too many reddit things already out there... I was trying to tap a market that doesn't have lots of enthusiastic software developers. oh.... wait...

Nice! I'll be changing my Mac system tray app HackerBar over to use this instead of some Objective-C scraping magic that it uses now: http://hackerbarapp.com/

I have a plethora of niche-based iOS apps for skydivers, beer enthusiasts, and people in direct sales. Bring in about 1-2k a month, but I actively maintain about half of the apps a…

TLDR: "We just started using this thing. It's pretty cool, but we're not going to tell you anything other than you should use it. Here's some DSLs for it."

Thanks! :P

I DON'T TALK TO RECRUITERS! I'm amazed at how quickly the reporter turned around that story. I talked to her yesterday afternoon. Also unexpected: my face in the article, lol.

> We don’t see Google services go down once a month. In the last couple of years I haven’t seen any Google services I use to down at all even. http://www.google.com/appsstatus

I've built a successful side business ( http://www.mohawkapps.com ) and was even featured in an e-book: http://www.sideprojectbook.com/ - by creating iPhone apps for niche markets …

That's exactly it. Lots of small products with microtransactions targeted towards niche markets that i barely have to touch. Passive income generation is one of the pinnacles of wh…

Problem I'm currently working on: How to make a long tail of passive income.

"Houston" is already the name of a popular open source project by Mattt Thompson - https://github.com/nomad/houston

Correct - UICollectionView also uses delegates, dataSources, and reusable cells.

Thanks for the link to my app and for citing it as inspiration!

My buddy Corey designed it - https://twitter.com/cdugd

Thank you, gracious master.

Hey, sorry about that. I've fixed the page and it should work now!

Ha! Yep. That's me. Here's a blog post about why I open source all my apps and sell them too http://blog.markrickert.me/why-i-open-source-all-my-rubymoti...

I saw this before deciding to build my own... it's just a webview and is a lot slower than mine. My app is completely native with no webviews whatsoever. So faster and less memory …

I've changed the price to $1.99 if you quit the App Store app and reload it, the price will be $1.99!

Congrats! I was an AirPair expert a while back and had a great experience. Providing a marketplace like this is a fantastic idea and i'm happy they're getting some industry backing…

That's a horrible readme.

AA won't ever go out of business... they're "too big to fail." I'm sure they'll just be absorbed into "US Government Airlines" when that time comes.