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IPhone App Helps You Discover Upcoming Movies (YCS11)

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Re: IPhone App Helps You Discover Upcoming Movies (YCS11)

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Post by ericflo »

Urgo wrote: post #2

Hows that android version coming..

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.

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Post by dannyr »

ericflo wrote: post #3
Urgo wrote: post #2

Hows that android version coming..

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! ;-)

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Post by ericflo »

chrischen wrote: post #5

I Can't Wait to win my free movie ticket.

There's a decent chance that'll happen if you use the app :) http://i.imgur.com/yFPbP.png (Keep in mind that's just the people who decided to share, and to share to Twitter instead of e.g. Facebook.)

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Post by wgx »

w1ntermute wrote: post #7
Urgo wrote: post #2

Hows that android version coming..

I wonder how much more ahead of the iPhone it has to pull in marketshare before mobile app developers consider releasing an Android app to be of equal priority.

Remember that Hunch piece about the demographics of Android vs iOS users?

http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/wp-content/uploads/2011/...

Maybe that's a factor over and above adoption numbers.

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

I'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 copy for anyone in the space with the advantage of an existing user base.

I have no reason whatsoever to trash this startup, quite the contrary, I'm in a completely different space and I wish only the best to any and all fellow startup founders. I'm just honestly puzzled, fully aware that it's probably me who is going to be wrong again.

I'm just wondering if anyone else is struggling to convince themselves to take something as simple as this and run with it in a crowded market. Even if I had the slightest interest in solving this problem, I just couldn't bring myself to believe in it and that might be why I will very likely never strike it rich.

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