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I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

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Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#21

Without twinkie apps he wouldn't have a hipster 8-bit twitter profile pic: https://twitter.com/adam_conrad

Oh noes, fallibility in my logic! How could I have not checked myself before I wrecked myself! I should probably just close down my Posterous account right now and save face. Never again will I indulge in anything less than pure, unadulterated value. FFFUUUUU!

EDIT: I thought it was funny. I would totally call me out too haha. Ah man, totally ruins my cred, you know, cause I had some to begin with :-p

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#22

Incoherent drivel. I hope this bubble kills the content-free vanity blog post / spam. Seriously, just don't write this crap. It's no good.

Not only did you fail to read my disclaimer, but according to your profile you make iPhone games. I guess I cut to the core of you, Baxter.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#23

Without twinkie apps he wouldn't have a hipster 8-bit twitter profile pic: https://twitter.com/adam_conrad

Oh noes, fallibility in my logic! How could I have not checked myself before I wrecked myself! I should probably just close down my Posterous account right now and save face. Never again will I indulge in anything less than pure, unadulterated value. FFFUUUUU! EDIT: I thought it was funny. I would totally call me out too haha. Ah man, totally ruins my cred, you know, cause I had some to begin with :-p

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Please come correct next time.

(I did appreciate "Incompetent MBA Popped Collar")

[edit] he really doesn't deserve negative karma for that, chill out people.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#24
post #20

Ahem: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/... :) Just sayin'. But, to your point, yes I would welcome a world where all the ultra low-fi junk would disappear and where there was less noise in the app marketplace... like 2003, except with today's consumer awareness. But the exact opposite will happen. Right now, our peers are building tools to allow ever lower-fidelity apps to enter the marketp…

Personally, I think democratizing technology is a really, really good thing. Sure, we have to suffer through things like Comic Sans abuse and crappy apps, but that is a minuscule price to pay for increasing the creative freedom of humanity. That's fundamentally why we build new tools -- to increase the freedom of people to impact the world. [Edit: Just read the article you linked. Losing 27 pounds by eating twinkies?…

You have taken the high ground sir. Therefore, I surrender. :)

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#25

Incoherent drivel. I hope this bubble kills the content-free vanity blog post / spam. Seriously, just don't write this crap. It's no good.

Not only did you fail to read my disclaimer, but according to your profile you make iPhone games. I guess I cut to the core of you, Baxter.

Not at all.

If you feel that you need a disclaimer, why not improve the post to the point where you don't need a disclaimer, before inflicting it on HN?

It's one thing to rant to friends over a beer, but at least try to go through a few drafts or reviewers before inflicting such nonsense on the internet, permanently. Maybe try to address the first level of obvious criticism?

Re: me ... I have 0 dollars in outside funding, and some number of users who like my work. Unless you're saying that games are ipso facto useless, I'm not sure how this is relevant.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#26
post #2

DISCLAIMER: for the record, this is a rant I wrote at 3 am so please don't take it too seriously. I'm mostly sharing it so you can have a good laugh, because apparently a few people thought it was funny and said I should share it.

Haha, I laughed so hard I pee'd a lil. This is something that keeps me up at night. It gives me anxiety to think that more and more useless apps are not only being developed, but funded. What the fuck. The thing is, building something today that solves a problem, isn't going to make you a "rockstar" if it's not sexy and social :(

I'd rather be a rich nobody than a poor rockstar. If you keep solving real problems, I'm sure you'll be fine.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#27

Incoherent drivel. I hope this bubble kills the content-free vanity blog post / spam. Seriously, just don't write this crap. It's no good.

Not only did you fail to read my disclaimer, but according to your profile you make iPhone games. I guess I cut to the core of you, Baxter.

Here are a few obvious criticisms:

1) "Change the world" is a red-herring. There's a lot of very valuable and helpful work that people with a "change the world" focus will miss out on. A lot of people writing craplications believe they will change the world. It's a content-free sound-bite at this point. It doesn't translate into any world-changing behaviour.

2) The value of a thing has very little to do with how hard it is to make. This is a common trap that techies fall into: I worked really hard and didn't get rewarded while someone else spent a few hours and did get rewarded.

2b) If you're going to argue that we're incentivizing the wrong behaviours, well, that's an interesting argument that you didn't explore.

3) Unintentionally, your rant is analogous to the very apps you're criticizing. I.e. it seems you just kind of pooped it out. You apologize for pooping it out, but you don't do the things that could turn it into an insightful or useful article.

Just as various app stores are saturated with crap, news sites are saturated with random half-assed comments that would be funny over beer, but just clog the internets.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#28
Great read, but I think that if the VCs can resist the temptation of investing too much too early there does exist a positive outcome.

We might just see feature development moving away from teams in big companies into smaller, independent teams. These will raise small amounts of money from angels and micro-VC's and get bought out en masse for mild sums by companies looking to add features and products.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#29
post #13

There is no stock market bubble. News flash: coupons are still boring and I don’t want to give out my email address to a service I don’t even know I’ll benefit from. So now we have an App Store that serves nothing but candy, and we all love candy don’t we? The OP is not the intended audience for most/all of the apps he's talking about. I don't think he understands that. There are apps and companies that seem to be ab…

There is no stock market bubble.

nobody said there was a stock market bubble. but I suggest you to check few graphs on Google/Yahoo Finance.

But the market will decide that. Not us nerds.

I hope us nerds are a little bit more aware about stuff going on than Mr. Market.

Re: I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

#30
post #20

Ahem: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/... :) Just sayin'. But, to your point, yes I would welcome a world where all the ultra low-fi junk would disappear and where there was less noise in the app marketplace... like 2003, except with today's consumer awareness. But the exact opposite will happen. Right now, our peers are building tools to allow ever lower-fidelity apps to enter the marketp…

Personally, I think democratizing technology is a really, really good thing. Sure, we have to suffer through things like Comic Sans abuse and crappy apps, but that is a minuscule price to pay for increasing the creative freedom of humanity. That's fundamentally why we build new tools -- to increase the freedom of people to impact the world. [Edit: Just read the article you linked. Losing 27 pounds by eating twinkies?…

App stores do not democratize technology. App stores limit access to technology to Officially Approved Developers who don't piss off the platform owner.
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