IPad App Idea - You are free to take it
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IPad App Idea - You are free to take it
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#2No comment on this idea, but I'd love to see more of this (vs Ask HN or Tell HN about my startup).
If you're not going to implement something tell the community. Let us vote it up if we think it's good.
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#3This sounds too much like GiveawayOfTheDay.com. They don't charge, so all they can give away is pure crap software.
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#4That's a cool idea
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#5I like the idea but can't help thinking someone somewhere will use an actual coin to scratch...
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#6Feels like a better Touch app, especially because anyone who has the disposable income for an ipad probably isn't a huge fan of lotteries.
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#7The legalities around running lotteries and/or contests might come into play here... do your research if you feel like venturing down this path.
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#8I'm going to assume you couldn't charge to play, otherwise you'd certainly run afoul of gambling laws, so it'd have to be funded by advertising revenue, right? Perhaps show a full-on thirty-second video ad before you get to play?
If the economics of that work out, then why should it be an iPad-only affair? Why not do it web-based so everyone can participate (and also avoid whatever issues Apple might have with it being in their app store?)
Now I'm not sure the economics of it could ever work since the amount an advertiser will pay is pretty small meaning the prizes are either too small to bother with or too rare to have a significant chance of winning regardless of how popular the site gets, but hey, if you can figure out a way to do it...
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#9I think app store prohibits gambling games, so you couldn't actually give stuff away.
Good idea tho.
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#10I'm going to assume you couldn't charge to play, otherwise you'd certainly run afoul of gambling laws, so it'd have to be funded by advertising revenue, right? Perhaps show a full-on thirty-second video ad before you get to play? If the economics of that work out, then why should it be an iPad-only affair? Why not do it web-based so everyone can participate (and also avoid whatever issues Apple might have with it bei…
Yea, I thought of this (I'm sure others have, too) a few months ago and dismissed it after a few back of the envelope calculations made it clear the business model just wasn't there.