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Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by exit »

Can someone point me to the apps made by maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com fame?

His blog posts regularly make the front page here. Most recently http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1344062

He has stated revenue primarily comes from app store, where he sells "A lot of small cheap apps.", and also that last month sales came close to 40k.

cubeofm.com lists one "Art you should know" app and a desktop appstore stats app. iTunes shows no other apps by that apps author. So, can someone point me to some of the "small cheap apps" he sells?

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by swombat »

I guess maxklein himself would be the right person to answer this. He can't be that hard to reach.

Which raises the question, why didn't you ask him directly? Or did you? Is this a show-move because you know what those apps are, and you want to "expose him" for making cheap spammy apps (note: I have no evidence whatsoever that maxklein makes spammy apps, but your post does seem to have some undertones of that)?

Or maybe I'm just overly imaginative tonight.

As we say in French, mystère et boule de gomme...

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by cubes »

swombat wrote: post #4

I guess maxklein himself would be the right person to answer this. He can't be that hard to reach. Which raises the question, why didn't you ask him directly? Or did you? Is this a show-move because you know what those apps are, and you want to "expose him" for making cheap spammy apps (note: I have no evidence whatsoever that maxklein makes spammy apps, but your post does seem to have some undertones of that)? Or ma…

Alternatively, perhaps exit applied Occam's Razor and concluded that maxklein is either a fiction or a fraud, and calling him out in public seems like an apt way to expose the lie?

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by exit »

swombat wrote: post #4

I guess maxklein himself would be the right person to answer this. He can't be that hard to reach. Which raises the question, why didn't you ask him directly? Or did you? Is this a show-move because you know what those apps are, and you want to "expose him" for making cheap spammy apps (note: I have no evidence whatsoever that maxklein makes spammy apps, but your post does seem to have some undertones of that)? Or ma…

i've asked him twice in the comment threads

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1171696

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1344398

his blog posts are great. more over, particularly after a very xkcd-ish comic he made about starting out, i associated him with success stories like patio11 (whose recent mixergy interview really inspires me).

but i just can't seem to figure out what exactly he does (whereas patio11 is incredibly transparent).

there's nothing sinister about my curiosity. when i get inspired by someone else's success, i want to know as much about the context and details of that success as possible. otherwise it just becomes frustrating.

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