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Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

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javery wrote: post #18
shabda wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it funny that a community of people who make their living off selling software are so averse to paying for it. How much of your hourly rate is the cost of buying this? How much time do you spend on HN daily? How much percent better does reading HN does this app need to make, for you to be ROI positive in a week?

It's not the problem of spending $2, it's the question of if that $2 is going to the right people.

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Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

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mildweed wrote: post #28
javery wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not the problem of spending $2, it's the question of if that $2 is going to the right people.

Indeed. This is the crux of our news organizations' current crisis. They create and organize the content, yet everybody else is using the content for profit. I choose to reward those who create and organize the content. The delivery of content is extremely easy, especially for me since I'm a developer myself.

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Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

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Post by SamAtt »

Oompa wrote: post #8

http://www.icombinator.net/ works great for me, and costs nothing. Also has nifty instapaper functionality which I've grown to live on.

I agree. I just bought the app and it offers an inferior experience to icombinator from what I can see. This app doesn't have threading in the comments (you can't see who replied to what), it doesn't have the instapaper functionality, etc...

I expected an app to at least allow me to log in and post comments but it doesn't even do that. Which makes me ask what the point of having a native app even was.

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

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Post by phil »

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #5

I think it's a bit high, but I bought it to give it a run. From the screenshots, it seemed decently full featured. The only thing I wish it had was AT least the upvote capabilities. I never really comment from the iphone, since I know ill limit my comments. Give me a few days of waiting on line with nothing to do and checking HN via my iPhone to give it a final verdict. .99 seems like a better price than 1.99

> a bit high

Seriously?

It must have taken at least a couple weeks of work to write and polish up this app. Then there's ongoing marketing, support, more dev if he adds the features people are asking for here, etc. If the app sells 1000 copies its first month (which would be pretty good!), the economics barely make sense at $1.99. At $0.99 it's basically a community service project.

Games can be priced at a dollar because the audience is everyone with an iPhone. For apps that are carefully tailored to the needs of a small group, you must expect to pay more.

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

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Post by stjarnljuset »

brk wrote: post #27
rbanffy wrote: post #23

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I do, however, have an iPod and an iMac. I just happen to use Linux for work.

Seriously, I'm not sure what the point of your comments are. Based on the devices you stated and your presence here, it would seem you are astute enough to recognize that not every app is going to be applicable for all people. This app especially seems to target a niche of a niche (iPhone users reading HN), and is not even 100% necessary within that niche. Most people would recognize that certain criteria must be met…

I'm not an iPhone user, but I clicked on this (the comments, not the iTunes link) because I wanted to know about the app, how it looks, what features it provides, how a fellow HN reader envisioned a piece of software, despite the fact that I would never use it.

I would have appreciated a link to a website with this information, but the comments here are just as good :D

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

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Post by ryanpetrich »

mildweed wrote: post #28
javery wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not the problem of spending $2, it's the question of if that $2 is going to the right people.

Indeed. This is the crux of our news organizations' current crisis. They create and organize the content, yet everybody else is using the content for profit. I choose to reward those who create and organize the content. The delivery of content is extremely easy, especially for me since I'm a developer myself.

When's your Hacker News iPhone app coming out then?
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