I launched http://www.agentshowroom.com/ with some help from phoenix24 I found on OfferHN who parsed a PSD to html/css for me.
Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
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Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
#72Inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card Creator, I launched Quick Brown Frog: http://www.quickbrownfrog.com http://quickbrownfrog.wordpress.com It's at the MVP stage, and while a technical success (I think it's an awesome in-browser app), no one seems to be interested in paying for it. I reduced the price to $10 prior to launch, and I still haven't had a nibble. I burned through about $200 in Adwords/Bing/Facebook ads so…
I tried your app once and loved it. I just bought an account. Congratulations! Please keep working on it.
This comment made me try it out. I do wish I was a better typist. Maybe this is the kind of thing I could do in my spare time instead of playing Angry Birds.
Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
#73Inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card Creator, I launched Quick Brown Frog: http://www.quickbrownfrog.com http://quickbrownfrog.wordpress.com It's at the MVP stage, and while a technical success (I think it's an awesome in-browser app), no one seems to be interested in paying for it. I reduced the price to $10 prior to launch, and I still haven't had a nibble. I burned through about $200 in Adwords/Bing/Facebook ads so…
It would be extra awesome if I could navigate through the lesson via keystrokes.
Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
#74http://contexium.com -- Call analytics and mining.
In customer acquisition mode now.
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#75We're hoping to launch the new version of our comic creation website http://chogger.com before the holiday break. Lots to do in the next 3 weeks!
Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
#76Inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card Creator, I launched Quick Brown Frog: http://www.quickbrownfrog.com http://quickbrownfrog.wordpress.com It's at the MVP stage, and while a technical success (I think it's an awesome in-browser app), no one seems to be interested in paying for it. I reduced the price to $10 prior to launch, and I still haven't had a nibble. I burned through about $200 in Adwords/Bing/Facebook ads so…
I'm going to be negative, sorry.
I think your biggest difference from Patrick is that you are in a B2C situation where he's definitely in a B2B situation.
A teacher or event planner needs to make bingo cards to save time - which is money.
If I just want to type better, I have to justify this expense as a consumer. Is this something I will spend $9.95 on? No. I'll probably spend 20 minutes looking for a free typing tutor that will ultimately have me repeat type what I see on the screen until I get better at typing.
Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
#77I submitted stk8.co few days ago but it barely got the attention.
stk8.co allows you to stack several Links or Text and share them under one shortened url.
It embeds a preview of the link for common services like youtube, vimeo, amazon, cnn, scribd, etc...
Here are couple of examples:
It also has a bookmarklet for easy stacking. The bookmarklet is transparent, one click is all what it takes to stack a link.
Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
#78Inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card Creator, I launched Quick Brown Frog: http://www.quickbrownfrog.com http://quickbrownfrog.wordpress.com It's at the MVP stage, and while a technical success (I think it's an awesome in-browser app), no one seems to be interested in paying for it. I reduced the price to $10 prior to launch, and I still haven't had a nibble. I burned through about $200 in Adwords/Bing/Facebook ads so…
Very nice application. I like the graphing of your progress over time. Maybe you could expand it to include DVORAK? I would have paid far more than $9.95/mo for DVORAK lessons when I was learning it. :)
One thing, though: http://i.imgur.com/rCTzE.png
I type between 130 and 140 WPM. The fastest I could get on your speed test was less than 100 WPM. Maybe some other fast typers can verify that this is a bug?
Good work!
Re: Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
#79Very early stage launched a site called WannaDo with my buddy davidfraga.
It is an easy way to remember the things that you hear about on the go so you can check them out later (Books, Movies, Restaurants, etc). You send an email to things@wanna.do and it'll be sorted and stored for later. Lists are public by default so it can be used as a way to check out the things that your friends are interested in doing (working on proper user accounts so that there is a way to keep things private/actually discover your friends).
You can try it out at http://wanna.do or by sending an email to things@wanna.do with the list name you'd like to create in the subject line and the item you'd like to add to that list in the body of your email. We'll set up an account for you automoatically a-la-Posterous.
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#80I launched my first Android app, Fanorona, a traditional board game from Madagascar. So far I've made four sales. At 99¢ each, minus Google's 30%, I've made $2.78. But it was fun. (I also listed it with Archos's AppsLib, but I don't expect to see any money there; they don't pay out until you hit $50.) http://fanorona.thibault.org/android/
Getting a Lite version out will probably help you tremendously.