Things real people dont say about reading publications: "We need more engaging advertising".
Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing.
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Re: Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing.
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think he's talking about this: http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/post/2731809145/submitted-by-serget... Basically, everyone wants to make their own branded apps, but few people are actually going to bother to buy them. The publishers are the victims, not the guys at the top of the pyramid, it's the app makers who're going to profit.
It's not a Ponzi scheme though, is it? It might be a scam, but for it to be a Ponzi scheme, the developers would need to use the money they get from the first publishers to, say, buy the apps they've developed to show it gets great returns to get new publishers to pay... (or something like that)
Yeah, I'm not sure the analogy is a great one.
Re: Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing.
#23If the future of publishing is an ipad friendly Wordpress theme the industry is in more trouble than I could conceive. This kind of absurd hyperbole makes it hard to take small but interesting ideas seriously.
You're sincerely mistaken if you think that's the end game for us or that the smart people involved would bet on something that small.
So one thing I notice on HN a lot (here and in the Qwiki thread) is that people have a tendency to belittle projects without enough information. "That's just X, and X isn't very hard" or whatever.
It's sickening, and the people that do this are vigorously indicating they have at best shallow reasoning facilities.
Some really great companies have much lower profiles than you might expect. Try not to draw conclusions on limited data, or at least understand the quality of said conclusions.
Re: Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing.
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're sincerely mistaken if you think that's the end game for us or that the smart people involved would bet on something that small.
So one thing I notice on HN a lot (here and in the Qwiki thread) is that people have a tendency to belittle projects without enough information. "That's just X, and X isn't very hard" or whatever. It's sickening, and the people that do this are vigorously indicating they have at best shallow reasoning facilities. Some really great companies have much lower profiles than you might expect. Try not to draw conclusions o…
These companies should wait until they actually have something cool before making statements like "Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing."