Live it. Posting from the app now in fact. Only suggestion so far is to include rotation support. Sort of a pain being portrait only, many people like landscape mode.
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#122Live it. Posting from the app now in fact. Only suggestion so far is to include rotation support. Sort of a pain being portrait only, many people like landscape mode.
+1 on rotation to landscape. It's the first thing I did when I brought up the app.
Also I agree with the advice to keep the price as it is. Complaints about an app that costs $5 are not realistic and this is a niche market app.
Good work. I do love the app.
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#123Cool app, please honor newlines in quoted text
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What's the best one in your opinion? I have been using an online one, but it's kind of rubbish!
I'm using the one from Michael Grinich. Simple and useful. I particularly like the integrated Readability function.
I used Grinich's app before the one this thread is about and I have to say this new one is much better: it also has readability and Instapaper support, so you won't miss that; it works a lot better: you can see user names on submissions and comments, and scores on submissions; and has more functionality: it has the new stories page, your profile, let's you submit, etc.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the best one in your opinion? I have been using an online one, but it's kind of rubbish!
I'm using the one from Michael Grinich. Simple and useful. I particularly like the integrated Readability function.
I used Grinich's app before the one this thread is about and I have to say this new one is much better: it also has readability and Instapaper support, so you won't miss that; it works a lot better: you can see user names on submissions and comments, and scores on submissions; and has more functionality: it has the new stories page, your profile, let's you submit, etc.
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Why is that not a legitimate justification? The vast majority of the world's population charge a monetary fee for their time, so why is this any different? The guy put a lot of effort into making an app, as such, if you like the app, you now reward him for that time by paying him.
Suppose that it turns out that he had outsourced the development of the app - as long as you get the same app, should he charge less? What if has still written it but was using a special compiler which compiled Lisp to Objective-C and had only spent two hours doing it, would you still feel that it was fair you paid the same?
Yes, it's only $5. A good cup of coffee is only slightly less than that, and it takes all of minutes to create. It's not like we are talking about $1000 enterprise software here.
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#127There will always be people who think your app should be cheaper or free. How many of them will write their own app and sell it for less? How many will put in the same number of hours of work and give it away?
My message to them is to pay or don't pay, but stop with the whining masquerading as "advice." If someone has a strong opinion about why the author will make more money at a lower price, they should walk their talk and write their own damn software.
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#128I would have bought it if it were $1.99. Just a data point for you.
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#129I've just happily paid for this app (congrats, nice app and makes my daily life easier/better) I am always amused when people complain about paying $5 for an app like this. Let's assume for a second that you are an IT/Internet professional, and you are read HN enough that you'd consider downloading an app. Maybe I am the exception, but I perhaps spend 30 mins per day on HN on my iphone. HN for me is great over breakf…
$100k/yr in the USA? I guess if you're in Silicon Valley...
Agreed. I live in the southeast USA, and that kind of money for a developer is crazy talk. Our cost of living is a lot lower, though. All that aside, $5 for an app that truly is amazing, wouldn't be a stretch for me. heck, I bought Deliveries at full price the other day just to track a package.