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Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by markchristian »

dguaraglia wrote: post #13

Is this really dependent on any particular Lion feature? I was about to buy it but I'm still on 10.6.8 (never bothered to update to Lion because of the myriad annoying new 'features'). tl;dr: if you can make it work in 10.6.8, I think you might get some more $love$ from some of us.

If you're feeling adventurous, I've heard success stories from people manually hacking the Info.plist on the direct download version.

It currently doesn't require any Lion specific APIs, but I plan on updating it in the future to make use of the nice flocking icons while dragging, and that will require Lion.

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by ricardobeat »

mattberg wrote: post #21

are there any differences in terms of features between the Mac App Store version and the one you can buy directly from your site? curious if the "sandbox" in the Mac App Store caused any file system issues.

I'm also curious about this. Please spill the beans!

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by sayrer »

markchristian wrote: post #5
aculver wrote: post #3

Congratulations! What an awesome utility. Your demo video is awesome. More than happy to send you money for this. Would love to hear how you fare from all the attention!

Thank you! Summary so far: Daring Fireball's traffic is so intense that it's almost scary. :)

http://bit.ly/dragondrop

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by steventruong »

markchristian wrote: post #4
seanmccann wrote: post #2

I followed your App Store struggle and am really happy you were finally able to get it approved. This is a really great utility.

Thanks, Sean. :) I wrote this up a few weeks ago to help give other developers their own plan B in case of similar difficulties: http://writing.markchristian.org/2012/03/30/make-your-own-ap...

Your projects link is 404. Also no RSS?

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by jlmendezbonini »

antifuchs wrote: post #10

Congratulations - that is a seriously useful utility. At first I thought that holding down the mouse button wasn't that bad - but your browser tab demo absolutely convinced me (-: Thanks for making this - anything that improves my Mac's drag&drop and copy&paste functionality is worth at least $5.

A tip that completely changed copy-paste experience in Finder is "Move item here". Copy as usual (command-c) but instead of pasting (command-v) you do (option-command-v) and it will _move_ the item. Such as huge time saver since I use to open two finder windows to accomplish the move since I'm quite bad at dragging with a trackpad.

Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed

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Post by rkudeshi »

I can understand why you're redirecting traffic directly to the App Store, but I think it might be doing more harm than good.

I vaguely remember seeing something about this app on HN before, but I don't really remember what it does exactly. Based on all the comments here, it sounds like you made a screencast that does a great job of demonstrating the product. Unfortunately, by redirecting the traffic, I can't see that screencast (and the App Store screenshots don't really demonstrate what the app does).

This product might very well be perfect for me, but I don't know because I can't see the video of it in action because of the redirect.

Just something to think about.

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