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paulyan

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    Comment #4543443

    Wistia sounds very interesting. What's the point of knowing how audience is watching? What are the metrics you want to measure?

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    Comment #4538947

    Hey @89a, can you detail which is the joke? Maybe what we did is stupid. But that's what we genuinely thought, tried and shared. We are serious to develop a good enough Instagram i…

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    Comment #4538608

    looking at competitors or parent product (in my case "Instagram") is definitely effective. However, i have to take the copycat name... Designer is very expensive for sure. Which co…

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    Comment #4538259

    If going into interaction details, i would prefer to work face to face as communication would become a problem. And in-house designer would be more than $500, i guess...

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    Comment #4538226

    i definitely upvote this! We have been hesitating on what we did. We're going to make something ourselves are happy with in next version. I will keep sharing. stay tuned

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    Comment #4538169

    Thanks @digitalengineer for this meaningful discussion. Yes we absolutely should build up our own design team. Blindly keep trying woundn't work either. It's still the art of balan…

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    Comment #4538111

    Good thinking's, definitely worth trying...

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    Comment #4538105

    hi @JohnCastle, for the top Instagram apps, the names are: - InstaPad - InstaBrowser - InstaMap And web services: - Webstagram I think the problem is in nature in what we're doing.…

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    Comment #4538063

    If you look at all Instagram apps in the store, you'll find there are many Instagram apps designed with a 'camera' icon. We're definitely not the first one. Do you know 'Pinstagram…

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    Comment #4538026

    I did both. I think people are more interested in #2 (because it's outsourced and the icon itself is a 'camera'), but #1 is definitely one of the reasons

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    Comment #4537998

    Hi @reidrac, i guess you're right. Anyway it's an Instagram iPad app, the simplest way to make user accept an app is make him/her understand what the app does at first glance. The …

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    Comment #4537979

    thanks for the comments, @francov88, i will keep up the work and keep sharing. Up to now, I think Padgram still has potential to grow. Among all the Instagram iPad app, Padgram has…

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    Comment #4537964

    gotcha, thanks,

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    Comment #4537956

    hmm, upper left has no camera, i think...

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    Comment #4537943

    I would still suggest trying. If you're not satisfied with what's offered, you can reject it, it does no harm. And Elancer has many options to try. But if without trying, devs will…

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    Comment #4537863

    Appreciate for your comments, if you try it and provide more comments, that would be perfect :-)

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    Comment #4537820

    i dont think Apple would consider this, :-(, that's why i wrote and shared it, as Apple is unlikely to figure out for us...

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    Comment #4537808

    Hi @raverbashing, i read "Wooden texture is a fashionable design in 2012" somewhere, but i forgot where it was... what's the full name of "skeuomorphism"? so that i can check it in…

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    Comment #4537763

    as a young startup, it's important to balance between attractiveness and expense, Dribbble is too expensive for me...

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    Comment #4537738

    Thanks @digitalengineer for your comments, yes it's relatively cheep from all the offering's. Actually this is my first try, and the result absolutely exceeds my expectation. i gue…

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    Comment #4296346

    And the story of why we developed InstaPin: http://www.pinssible.com/blog/2012/06/instapin-creatively-ex...

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    For Instagram on iPad, is there still a chance for new apps?

    Hey Guys, As we know there are several options of Instagram iPad apps. We just released another one: InstaPin. InstaPin is designed with Pinterest waterfall view, and we specially …