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Six Figures in 6 days

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Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by ahmadss »

oefrha wrote: post #15
kyran_adept wrote: post #7

As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

Is the average iPhone owner willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Probably not. Can you find 3626 iPhone owners willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Sure you can. In fact I bet you can find 3626 Android owners willing to part with $28 too. The key to this success story is this: > Then, MKBHD happened.

the key to his success is honing his craft via side projects, sharing these ideas often, having a quick and easy tooling to publish ideas, pushing to prod and sharing these ideas. thats the key to success. the MKBHD pickup is just the recognition of the skill honed through this process.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by m12k »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #24
m12k wrote: post #23

So the trick to being in the right place at the right time is to find the right place, then just wait there for the right time to arrive.

If you read his post, he says to continually publish to find out what sticks. Your comment sounds like you want to publish once and succeed. You need to also fail to succeed.

I don't think we disagree. One of Unity's founders once compared what they did, making a game engine for Mac, to building a ship in the desert. Then the iPhone App Store came along, like a tidal wave through the desert, and they've been riding that wave ever since.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by tl »

hnlmorg wrote: post #9
kyran_adept wrote: post #7

As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

Technically it's still not available to iPhone users. The actual method of changing the icons is a really nasty workaround that needs to be performed for each and every application . Instructions: https://icons.tr.af/how Don't get me wrong, I do love my iPhone, but this isn't something most people (myself included) will have the patience to do.

It also slows down the launch of every app because you're launching an app to launch your app. The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by diath »

Uberphallus wrote: post #28
elliotbnvl wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

React.

Doesn't this piss search engines off? Does the content even get indexed?

I'm sure they're sophisticated enough to be able to render the website properly w/ JS. Search engines aren't just regular simple crawlers (not that I condone the use of JS for what could have been a simple static HTML & CSS page given how minimal it is).

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by hamza_nouali »

falcolas wrote: post #30

Meta rant: Why, oh why do people use low contrast colors and expect people to be able to read their blog? Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.

I checked Chrome DevTools and it looks accessible. even though, it's hard to read.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by jedimastert »

falcolas wrote: post #30

Meta rant: Why, oh why do people use low contrast colors and expect people to be able to read their blog? Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.

> Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.

Genuinely, no. For those who have it, vision is such an integral part of...well, existence that intuitively grasping that people have completely different ways of perceiving it beyond the obvious is extremely difficult. This goes a bit beyond the "try to explain 'blue' to someone" troupe. I have difficulties explaining my own brand of vision difficulties (or hearing difficulties, for that matter) without basically explaining the optics of vision and going from there.

For instance, for folks with without some kind of color difficulties, being able to look at two colors (what most would perceive as) completely different colors and being able to say "those colors would look the same to color blind folks" is almost impossible without training or extra tools.

So no, it doesn't occur to someone without training to constant question their own perception, unfortunately. The most we can do is give web masters a shout when we notice and promote accessibility tools wherever we can

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by riebschlager »

falcolas wrote: post #30

Meta rant: Why, oh why do people use low contrast colors and expect people to be able to read their blog? Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.

The contrast ratio between #000000 and #8F9BA8 is 7.42:1 which passes accessibility guidelines.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by reflectiv »

Uberphallus wrote: post #28
elliotbnvl wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

React.

Doesn't this piss search engines off? Does the content even get indexed?

Google started rendering pages before indexing a while back because of this...so generally it's ok from an indexing perspective (assuming you still have working URLs that can also be loaded in the same way for all your linked-to content).

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by thatguy0900 »

falcolas wrote: post #30

Meta rant: Why, oh why do people use low contrast colors and expect people to be able to read their blog? Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.

I'm 25 and this is still a little uncomfortable to read.
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