The article was interesting, but it's more interesting seeing that Apple is Hacker News favourite whipping boy now.
We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
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#142I'm not surprised since this is pretty similar to what all communication hubs are trying to do (for obvious marketing reasons). You are serious competition and they have the power to sweep you under a rug.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#143With all their patent trolling and absurd tyrannical control over the app store, I have no idea why so many tech-saavy people still love Apple.
And I have no idea why people still flock to Google and their Android clusterfuck. So there. Different strokes.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
We love what Apple did for the industry, we love using their products, we have varying levels of problems with them as a company. Some are very high, some are low, but that's unrelated to what you're perceiving, which is a love of what they did for the industry and the products that we use.
Popularizing walled gardens? Yah I'm never going to forget that. ever.
I bet you a majority of the customers don't even see those walls and yet still get to enjoy the positives that come from that approach. Yeah, why would a business continue to operate that way? Let's just make everything open as fuck and stand back to watch what happens.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#145"If it's just using webviews, why does this need to be an app?"
exactly...
there is no actual reason this couldn't be a cross platform 'web app'. it would be better that way. why do you want the app on the appstore exactly?
the list of reasons given are of debateable merit the last one is probably the best, and suggests a fix. develop the app a bit further so you can justify it not being a web page...
also, why are you storing data on the user's phone? will you be using icloud or some web service to preserve it across devices? is it just cache?
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#146First of all, that sounds like a really cool idea for an app. I want it. But secondly, of all the app rejection stories I've ever heard... this one is the easiest to fix. Just add some more features, who cares, and resubmit it. Ideas: annotate/categorize the things that are making you happy/unhappy. Maybe have categories/icons for them. (Friends, party, loneliness, exercise, ate well, ate bad, had sex, no sex, fought…
The irony of it all is that the top app on the app store is a sleep cycle alarm which seems to do little beyond graphing your sleep routines.
Maybe it's because they charge for that and apple are happier with "simple" apps if they can make money from them
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#147Let me be the first to reject this website for being "too shitty".
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Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#148A similar app was recently in the top chart in "productivity" section.
It's called feeltracker, and it has historical graphs: https://www.feeltracker.com
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever seen a good movie? Think for a second about that movie. What made it good? Now imagine if you could make that movie even better for yourself. Imagine this movie was distributed along with a plastic box with a few knobs and dials on it. Wouldn't it be a better movie if you could turn the knobs to adjust the parameters of the movie -- there really aren't that many fundamental parameters to movies. You cou…
What if the movie came with the full set of trailers (preview, theatrical, etc.) for the movie? And had a director's commentary track? With a second audio track that had the actors telling jokes? Or even just take all of the funny moments that happened while filming, where people missed their lines, and put them on the same DVD? Maybe they could even throw in an entirely different ending for the movie that was replac…
I guess what I'm getting at is that some of the nicest things in this world are what they are because of spaces not filled in, or aspects that aren't shoved into tropes, or—if you'll excuse the cliché—notes not played.
I think we're all in agreement that this sounds like a cool app. I'm just lamenting the lack of creative authority given to its developers, regardless of whatever their future plans may be.
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#150Unrelated to the article itself, but a friendly tip for the Hueman guys: the lack of margins on this page made it very hard to read. Not everyone browses full-screen on their 27" iMac. On any window under 1100px, the content runs into the margin on the left, which could easily be avoided with some padding:
http://cl.ly/image/2V0A021M1t0S