Tim Ferriss on how to build an app empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram? • Hacker News Board

Re: Tim Ferriss on how to build an app empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?

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Post by destraynor » Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 3:06 PM UTC

He's actually becoming a parody of himself it seems.

"How get 24 points on Hacker News"

1. Hire someone who can write. (I usually use an outsourcing agency for $7.23 per article) 2. Give them a topic to write about. (usually something that's in some way timely) 3. Tell them to create an article that implies that there is a numerated set of steps that one can follow to become rich. Use images from popular apps to imply that the article is well referenced. 4. Submit to Hacker News and other sites.

Re: Tim Ferriss on how to build an app empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?

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Post by fleeno » Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

1SaltwaterC wrote: post #16

Isn't this "create the next Instagram" like "create the next Facebook"?

He describes poor quality, client-side apps that can be developed in a matter of hours. If he has made money, that's great, but he's not creating anything with long term value, like Instagram.

Apps like Instagram are businesses with passionate developers and back-end systems that you just can't do with random developers that will work on junk projects for no pay.

Re: Tim Ferriss on how to build an app empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?

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Post by Appdanowicz » Mon, Apr 23, 2012, 9:35 PM UTC

Do these "Plagiarize Other Apps to Try To Make a Quick Buck" articles make anyone else throw up a little?

Re: Tim Ferriss on how to build an app empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?

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Post by 1SaltwaterC » Tue, Apr 24, 2012, 10:46 AM UTC

fleeno wrote: post #22

1SaltwaterC wrote: post #16

Isn't this "create the next Instagram" like "create the next Facebook"?

He describes poor quality, client-side apps that can be developed in a matter of hours. If he has made money, that's great, but he's not creating anything with long term value, like Instagram. Apps like Instagram are businesses with passionate developers and back-end systems that you just can't do with random developers that will work on junk projects for no pay.

Maybe I was too subtle. This "create the next foo" is the tagline of way too many "news" that float around this place. I think that there's no "next foo", only bar that contains the ingredients indicated by you.