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Re: Show HN: Javelin Browser

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Post by GuiA »

monokrome wrote: post #83
andrewl-hn wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do a video interview, get on several podcasts. Talk about Material design, about privacy, about android development in general. Have a blog and link to it. Personally talk to your users. If some known person (open-source contributor or a startup founder) start using your product, ask for cross-promotion or endorsement of any kind. Just be open. The more people know about you the more they are inclined to trust you.

That doesn't solve the original problem. It's just indirection from it... You still don't know what's going on in the background.

It doesn't solve the original problem as it is stated, but it still solves the original problem. 99.99999% of Firefox users will never look at its source code, they just trust the Mozilla brand.

Re: Show HN: Javelin Browser

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Post by superchink »

ClifReeder wrote: post #60

I notice that you use www.theverge.com in a number of the screenshots for Javelin. The writers at The Verge, the developers that build the site, the designers that make it beautiful - are all paid through ad revenue. Please consider at least adding the ability to whitelist sites if you are going to bundle ad block. *Full disclosure - I am a developer at Vox Media, the publisher of The Verge.

@nubela Sounds like an opportunity to negotiate revenue for inclusion in an optional (for users) whitelist.

Re: Show HN: Javelin Browser

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Post by cmdrfred »

dmix wrote: post #39
cmdrfred wrote: post #37

Looks good. Adblock integration is a nice touch, thats pretty much my first line of defence when it comes to anti-malware on the systems I administrate.

Toggling JS off also makes mobile browsing super-fast and much safer. I wish it was easy to toggle on/off. Mobile chrome is a couple clicks.

I wish I had the option if I disabled JS on my work machines none of the insurance company portals would work.

Re: Show HN: Javelin Browser

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Post by andrewchambers »

nubela wrote: post #24
fooqux wrote: post #16

I've been using your browser for a couple months now (I think I saw it mentioned on Android Police if you're curious) and I've been liking it. It looks slick, and works exactly how I think it should. The one problem I have with it is one I'd like other opinions on, both for my curiosity and your benefit. Frankly, it's not my daily driver because I don't know who you are and don't trust you. Using a (no offense) no-na…

I'm also the developer of http://getgom.com (VPN as a Chrome extension using SPDY SSL proxies), and as a fellow Singaporean when our government openly does surveilance, I __completely__ understand where you are coming from. To be fair, I'm not sure how I can solve his problem though. Open sourcing could be a plausible answer. But fighting Google Play clones and what-not is really time-consuming and as an indie dev, m…

People can copy the source, but they cant copy the top download count, or a reputation as a good developer or company. Once you have loyal customers and a reputation there is no point in hiding the source code in my opinion.

They can copy your code, but they don't understand it like you do, and therefore can't provide the same level of support or quality in updates. If they copy your code and make it closed source, people won't trust it, and if they copy your code and make it open, you can just steal changes you like back again.

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