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IPhone App Helps You Discover Upcoming Movies (YCS11)
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#22Just installed it. I wish it would let me browse movies by genre. Unless I'm missing it, there's no way to do that.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been 2 weeks.
still pretty low, that's 700/day. I've never released a free app that didn't get I would remove the 10,000 copies reference because anyone who has any experience on the app store would see that those numbers are very low. It's like bragging about a 3.0 GPA.
I released a free app last week. No marketing or advertising. It's got 2 downloads, and one of those was me.
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#24I'm worried about the apparent disconnect between my brain and the world of web startups or maybe even simply the world. I think YC numbers are proof enough that startups like this can become popular and commercial successes. Yet as someone who likes movies and watches a lot of them it's completely beyond me how something like this could ever be more than a minor feature of some movie site, one that is trivial to cop…
Hmm. On the one hand I really want to spell out the steps we plan to take to turn what it is into a huge, huge business. On the other hand, I don't want to give away our strategy to potential competitors and partners. What I will say is that people like watching trailers--our downloads and usage numbers prove that, as well as trailers.apple.com and other trailer websites which are very successful. However, nobody els…
Eric weren't you working on an another YC company? Convore? Or am I mixing people up?
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#25I'm worried about the apparent disconnect between my brain and the world of web startups or maybe even simply the world. I think YC numbers are proof enough that startups like this can become popular and commercial successes. Yet as someone who likes movies and watches a lot of them it's completely beyond me how something like this could ever be more than a minor feature of some movie site, one that is trivial to cop…
I completely agree and came here to say something similar. I'm honestly perplexed by "startups" that build an app that seem to introduce no new processes or technology (a reminder about a release date? a list of movie trailers? tweet out about a movie?) because these don't strike me as very inventive or even startup-like. It's an app. The same app could be built by a 2-man team working nights and weekends as a side project. It could also be cranked out by Fandango or the other big, established iPhone movie apps. What's stopping them?
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#26I'm worried about the apparent disconnect between my brain and the world of web startups or maybe even simply the world. I think YC numbers are proof enough that startups like this can become popular and commercial successes. Yet as someone who likes movies and watches a lot of them it's completely beyond me how something like this could ever be more than a minor feature of some movie site, one that is trivial to cop…
If I had to guess, I'd say that they have a larger vision that what you see today is just the first step of. Remember that Microsoft started with Basic on the Altair. Just because a startup seems unimpressive when they release their first product doesn't mean that they're not building in an important space.
Every time someone says that I'm reminded of Color. Every article said they were going to do 50 new things that were coming after the iPhone app was a big success (they needed data to do the 50 other things) but when the iPhone app tanked so did the genesis of the other ideas.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right now tabs work and click properly. It loads data from our HTTP API and displays it in an ugly way, and trailers do play in a basic way on the Android version. tl;dr: I'm actively working on it, but I don't want to promise a release date just yet.
If you are not embarrassed with your 1st release, you've waited too long. Release it now! ;-)
I know this was said tongue-in-cheek but as the founder noted below, if you release a half-baked iPhone app you're done. Dead in the water. Nobody cares or will write about your 1.5 version when you finally polish the turd of the 1.0. It's all about the launch, not iteration, on the App Store.
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#28I'm worried about the apparent disconnect between my brain and the world of web startups or maybe even simply the world. I think YC numbers are proof enough that startups like this can become popular and commercial successes. Yet as someone who likes movies and watches a lot of them it's completely beyond me how something like this could ever be more than a minor feature of some movie site, one that is trivial to cop…
Even if I had the slightest interest in solving this problem
Yet, is this really a "problem"? I've never had a problem with finding out when a movie comes out... EDIT: ...or finding out about a new movie. What's wrong with Flixster?
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#29I'm worried about the apparent disconnect between my brain and the world of web startups or maybe even simply the world. I think YC numbers are proof enough that startups like this can become popular and commercial successes. Yet as someone who likes movies and watches a lot of them it's completely beyond me how something like this could ever be more than a minor feature of some movie site, one that is trivial to cop…
If I had to guess, I'd say that they have a larger vision that what you see today is just the first step of. Remember that Microsoft started with Basic on the Altair. Just because a startup seems unimpressive when they release their first product doesn't mean that they're not building in an important space.
But if they are so busy building a movie notification system, how will they have time to create a programming language for a new computing platform?
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#30I'm worried about the apparent disconnect between my brain and the world of web startups or maybe even simply the world. I think YC numbers are proof enough that startups like this can become popular and commercial successes. Yet as someone who likes movies and watches a lot of them it's completely beyond me how something like this could ever be more than a minor feature of some movie site, one that is trivial to cop…
Hmm. On the one hand I really want to spell out the steps we plan to take to turn what it is into a huge, huge business. On the other hand, I don't want to give away our strategy to potential competitors and partners. What I will say is that people like watching trailers--our downloads and usage numbers prove that, as well as trailers.apple.com and other trailer websites which are very successful. However, nobody els…
Hmm.. Get rep of having large, savvy userbase
Shop it to studios
Get exclusive trailers and snippets before other sites
Get larger more savvy userbase
Add in perhaps coupons and premiere ticket drives
Rinse, repeat