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I would love to hear other people's opinions on it...
I quit my job a month ago for my second crack at bootstrapping a business: http://www.shirtstastegood.com I'm in nyc and I would love to hear any feedback! Thanks.
Minor amateur opinion: the artwork seems too large on the shirts / too overstated.
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Any tips on finding "opportunities in mobile if you don't focus on the app store."? Also how does one get into iPhone consulting. Do you still get paid if your client's app gets rejected?
Think B2B, for example. The iPhone (and the others - Android, Palm, Blackberry), combined with the app store model provide two things: 1) users effectively get a handheld computer which always has internet access, and 2) developers get much more access to these mobile devices than carriers have traditionally allowed. Pick an industry - what does this allow them to do that they couldn't before? (ideally, something tha…
I'm working on newer and better software for controlling stage and club lighting. It's still in the early stages, so the final form of the product(s) isn't clear to me yet. A likely initial release will be aimed at the club market, currently dominated by Martin LightJockey since a decent offering there won't require any custom hardware. I'm using Haskell and functional reactive programming. I intend to expose some so…
Last November I was laid off from my job. Haven't been able to find a new one, so I've been teaching myself to code in the meantime. It's a completely different field but I'm in love with it. :) I come from a mixed business/finance/IT (Win sys admin) background. I've run several self-employed small businesses which weren't scalable.
Amazoned about $400 in coding books and am chewing through them nicely. Struggled for months but eventually built a partial working prototype for my startup, and know that I can finish and launch it. If it fails miserably, well damn, I'm going to walk away smarter than I've ever been before, and am going to be well positioned to go on and do it all over again.
Definitely looking for a partner or two in the Boston, MA area. Ideally someone with experience in, or willingness to learn:
- Python w/Django 1.x
- Windows App development (C# I think???)
- Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL Stack
- Objective-C w/Cocoa (App Kit) | PyObjC
But I'm not set in-stone on the technologies. Whatever is easiest and most time/cost-effective. Ping me if you're interested and we can discuss further. I don't bite, except for apple's. Contact info here: dave-gallagher.net
"Find out what you can not do, and then go, and do it!"
Open this file. Find this code. Paste this code before it. Paste this code after it. Save the file. Rinse and repeat for 10 more files. Upload and pray. Error Troubleshoot Insert the missing semi-colon Upload and pray. Rinse and repeat.
On top of that, you have thousands of people all over the internet doing exactly the same thing. again. and again. and again. What a waste of human effort!
My answer: http://flooha.com
Choose your app, choose your add-ons, build it, install it, done. So easy anyone can do it. No downloading, unzipping, reading instructions, opening files, copying, pasting, comparing, merging, uploading, etc... Just clicking. Uploading addons is as easy as filling out some form info and uploading a zip file.
The site is live, but I have not yet "launched", meaning that I haven't done an ounce of marketing. I had actually planned a "Please review my app" post on HN on Tuesday, but I couldn't resist this tread.
I will also be working on a few of my startup ideas; I am also going to pursue my self-education full time (as in 2 days per week). I have a rigorous self-made curriculum worked out.
My strongest startup idea is to create a pornography web application that uses an in-house ontology to describe the media in-depth. User interaction will be a simple "I like this" or "I don't like this" system to refine individual user's results. The ontology is the key though, most of the creative and foot work will be in that.
I'm also going to be building an RDF Triple Store using Clozure CL; complete with graph inference, a RESTful API, and built to operate as a distributed system.
My self-education entails all of the classic subjects: Mathematics, Rhetoric, Writing, Greek as a foreign language, Logic, and the Sciences. Some of the more specific subjects include: Knowledge Engineering, comp-sci, &c...
I am doing something slightly weird. (I can talk about this on HN, but I am keeping it quiet otherwise). I read an article on Slashdot about John Carmack where he said, (emphasis mine) " After I took the job at Softdisk, I was happy. I was programming, or reading about programming, or talking about programming, almost every waking hour . It turned out that a $27k salary was enough that I could buy all the books and p…
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Think B2B, for example. The iPhone (and the others - Android, Palm, Blackberry), combined with the app store model provide two things: 1) users effectively get a handheld computer which always has internet access, and 2) developers get much more access to these mobile devices than carriers have traditionally allowed. Pick an industry - what does this allow them to do that they couldn't before? (ideally, something tha…
Sorry for the newb question, but are you saying that ANY app developed for the iPhone (including a custom app for a client) must go through the App Store before being installed on their phones? I'm asking because we have a web-based intranet app that we could create an iPhone-based version of, but it's only useful to the client. So, there's no reason to put in on the App Store. But it sounds like you're saying all ap…
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Gu...
I am doing something slightly weird. (I can talk about this on HN, but I am keeping it quiet otherwise). I read an article on Slashdot about John Carmack where he said, (emphasis mine) " After I took the job at Softdisk, I was happy. I was programming, or reading about programming, or talking about programming, almost every waking hour . It turned out that a $27k salary was enough that I could buy all the books and p…