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RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Post by rmason »

facepalm wrote: post #5

Great idea, but how do they find the good times - simply by watching all movies? That might get old pretty fast.

A friend of mine knows the guy and both he and his wife do attend all the movies. His Twitter handle is @PolyGeek.

I know people who won't go to a movie on opening weekend because it isn't on runpee.com yet. If Hollywood was smart they'd give them advance screening privileges.

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Post by DanBC »

foreigner wrote: post #12

I use this app on Android. It's awesome. My only criticism is it's ad-supported. I would gladly pay lots of money for am ad-free version of this app.

How easy is it for devs to release two versions of an app on the various app places?

One is free but ad supported; the other has a single upfront cost and no ads.

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Post by foreigner »

DanBC wrote: post #13
foreigner wrote: post #12

I use this app on Android. It's awesome. My only criticism is it's ad-supported. I would gladly pay lots of money for am ad-free version of this app.

How easy is it for devs to release two versions of an app on the various app places? One is free but ad supported; the other has a single upfront cost and no ads.

There's plenty of apps that work that way.

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

kyberias wrote: post #8

Here's a metric for the overall quality of a given film: the relative amount of pee-time.

Not necessarily - the non-pee-time bits might be barely non-peeable, or absolute 'do not pee, even if you're about to wet yourself' moments :-)

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Post by voltagex_ »

DanBC wrote: post #13
foreigner wrote: post #12

I use this app on Android. It's awesome. My only criticism is it's ad-supported. I would gladly pay lots of money for am ad-free version of this app.

How easy is it for devs to release two versions of an app on the various app places? One is free but ad supported; the other has a single upfront cost and no ads.

I've seen it done three ways on Android:

* A link in the app to an "Unlocker" which is detected by the main app and removes the ads

* An IAP that removes the ads

* A pro vs free version of the app.

I can't answer your question directly but I know that the IAP is a few lines of code in Google's billing APIs.

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Post by linker3000 »

I'd rather have an app that screens all the other moviegoers so that I can arrange to sit in an area where I'm not surrounded by people who have some kind of Pavlovian response that 'movie' = 'feed my face with crunchy popcorn, slurpy drinks and sweets from a noisy plastic bag'.

People: You will not die if you go without carbs for a couple of hours.

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Post by turnip1979 »

[deleted] wrote: post #19

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I pee right before a movie starts. I try my best not to have any soda during the movie for this very reason. Still, sometimes, I have to go. You realize that bladders get naturally weaker for some individuals as they age right?
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