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Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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michaelwilson wrote: post #60
ThomPete wrote: post #21

Also a humble request. I literally went through 3 developers and too much money until I was so luck to find @jimmyhoughjr. Jimmys primary expertise is iOS but I convinced him to help me out on this project for the money I could afford. Jimmy could use some freelance work as he has been out of work for while now (and live in the mid-west). So if you need an extra hand on som iOS work don't hesitate to connect with him…

Is there any way to contact @jimmyhoughjr other than via Twitter? Thanks!

yeah send him a mail jimmyhoughjr at me dot com

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by BSousa »

ThomPete wrote: post #21

Also a humble request. I literally went through 3 developers and too much money until I was so luck to find @jimmyhoughjr. Jimmys primary expertise is iOS but I convinced him to help me out on this project for the money I could afford. Jimmy could use some freelance work as he has been out of work for while now (and live in the mid-west). So if you need an extra hand on som iOS work don't hesitate to connect with him…

I know you probably don't want to publish his email here, but since his website doesn't seem to work, it makes it hard to contact him without twitter (which a lot of non dev guys) don't have.

May I ask, ballpark figure, how much was this project, or how much he charges per hour? I may have some projects in the future for him.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete »

graeme wrote: post #57
ThomPete wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fantastic and yes we do see this becoming central especially when you can customize the applescripts. (Next update)

Testing it now. Is there a way to have a note attach to any url on the same TLD? For instance, there's some custom text I paste as my signature in a certain forum. For that forum, I'd like to be able to set the note to apply to the whole TLD. Whereas for other pages, like say articles on a page, it would make sense to have notes apply to individual urls.

not for now but we do have a solution for it as it's something we been finding our self needding too.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by pajju »

ThomPete wrote: post #52
pajju wrote: post #49

I was expecting a Trial version to try out, whether it fits my workflow, but its not there. Please consider adding a trial version.

I know and I understand. I wish Apple allowed you to do that but for now they don't. I have talked to paddle.net and binpress.com about making it available through their services. You can sign up to the newsletter if you want to be notified about things like that.

Thanks.

I always bought Mac software from Paddle, as it supports trial versions.

Worth mention, very surprising that Apple doesn't allow Trial versions.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ryanSrich »

ThomPete wrote: post #31
txu wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congratulations! May I ask how did you reach out to developers and how long did the project take. I assume you designed it? Thanks! :-)

I tried odesk, elance etc. the whole sherade and they all ended up not delivering. I still hang out on IRC and through the #macdev channel via one of the moderators i was put in contact with Jimmy. Just goes to show, few things beat personal recommendations. But please if you have any work please help out Jimmy he is a really good developer just caught in a shitty situation.

As a designer learning iOS to build an app I designed, why didn't you develop the app yourself? Do you feel like the time lost learning OSX development would have offset the potential earnings of the app?

My impression when shopping around for a developer was that to get something like ghostnote built you'd have to spend around $50k+. This ultimately led me to just trying to build the app myself, but I'm finding that while I can achieve basic functionality with iOS, anything complex is far more time consuming (custom UIs, animations, integration 20 + apis).

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete »

BSousa wrote: post #62
ThomPete wrote: post #21

Also a humble request. I literally went through 3 developers and too much money until I was so luck to find @jimmyhoughjr. Jimmys primary expertise is iOS but I convinced him to help me out on this project for the money I could afford. Jimmy could use some freelance work as he has been out of work for while now (and live in the mid-west). So if you need an extra hand on som iOS work don't hesitate to connect with him…

I know you probably don't want to publish his email here, but since his website doesn't seem to work, it makes it hard to contact him without twitter (which a lot of non dev guys) don't have. May I ask, ballpark figure, how much was this project, or how much he charges per hour? I may have some projects in the future for him.

pm me my contact info is in the profile

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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BSousa wrote: post #62
ThomPete wrote: post #21

Also a humble request. I literally went through 3 developers and too much money until I was so luck to find @jimmyhoughjr. Jimmys primary expertise is iOS but I convinced him to help me out on this project for the money I could afford. Jimmy could use some freelance work as he has been out of work for while now (and live in the mid-west). So if you need an extra hand on som iOS work don't hesitate to connect with him…

I know you probably don't want to publish his email here, but since his website doesn't seem to work, it makes it hard to contact him without twitter (which a lot of non dev guys) don't have. May I ask, ballpark figure, how much was this project, or how much he charges per hour? I may have some projects in the future for him.

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