Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 120 posts

Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

#62

Post by cemregr »

I launched my MVP, Photosherpa. If you take too many photos and don't have time to go through them, you'd like it. You send all your photos to it, you get back only the good ones (so you can put them online right away).

   http://www.photosherpa.com
Since I couldn't figure out Paypal integration yet, it is completely free :) Within December I'll try to integrate it with Paypal and Flickr/Facebook (so processed photos could get uploaded with one click).

Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

#64

Post by europa »

kaffeinecoma wrote: post #52
europa wrote: post #8

I am still working on mine. It'll take a few more weeks before the MVP ready to be launched. I have my landing page up at http://www.serverfabu.com/ The inspiration for this project came from the feedback I've received for my ASK HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815344

Just signed up for your contact list. I'm itching to move off of Google App Engine, but not looking forward to jumping back into the sysadmin game, which is what I'd need to do in order to move to AWS or Rackspace or whatever. I have no idea what your pricing will be like (and I'm guessing that you don't either, at this stage), but it would be great if you had something for micro-ISV type shops (read as: cheap). As a…

As of now, this is what exactly I am planning, One-time fee for setting up the server, hardening for security, installing/configuring software etc. I think the price should have a bearing on the complexity of the setup.

Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

#66

Post by _b8r0 »

I didn't do so great. My MVP works, but it needs more effort before it's ready for Beta (as a lot will change between now and Beta, but it's about a day or two's work). Minklinks actually works well and makes sharing links a one-click job.

In the end my day job got in the way, and while I was up for spending evenings and weekends on it my wife had arranged something on nearly every weekend that I couldn't back out of.

I have a large block of time booked off in December, a lot of which I'll be using on Minklinks so it's likely to be a 'launch december' app now. You can still sign up for the Beta at http://www.minklinks.com/.

Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

#69

Post by noodle »

launched it. i'm not super comfortable sharing it just yet with the HN crowd just yet because (1) its starting to reach the upper limits of the tiny slice i'm running it on and i'd like to save those resources for users, and (2) its super niche and i only know of 3 HN users who would maybe ever use it.

its basically a statistics gathering/analytics app for a sport. 24 hours and about 150 registered users. it currently only has a free version and i'm working on new features for a paid version.

i'm stuck on pricing, though. not sure how much people will be willing to bite on any paid version of what i'm offering, even if i added some super awesome features.

i use it, though, and thats what counts.

Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

#70

Post by tjarratt »

While I didn't actually launch anything, I did make a lot of progress on two separate apps:

One to facilitate collaborative tabletop games (think Settlers of Cataan or Dungeons & Dragons) between remote parties. Built with node.js, redis, jquery, html5, css3, buzzwords.

Another smaller, quicker app that spun off the first was a web interface for the OS X `say` command. Sometimes I'm on ubuntu or windows and I wish I had access to make a mac actually speak a sentence. Built using the same stack, same tools, just much smaller in scope.

I only pivoted late in the month, the day after thanksgiving, so I'm hoping to launch that after I tidy up the UI and come up with a name. Anyone have any suggestions?

Post reply on HN