skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His quote does seem a bit high. In my experience (Rails and iOS developer) if your back end is mostly RESTful resources and a simple data structure, and your front end is standard iOS components like simple tableviews and a NavigationController, you can get an MVP done in the $5k-$10k range in a week or two.

HOWEVER: everybody has a different opinion of what is meant by "Minimum", "Viable", and "Product". $5k gets you only bog-standard UI components and a simple data model. Animations? Fancy graphics? Optimized performance? Search? Custom UI? Graceful error handling? Localization/Internationalization/Translation? Integrating with Facebook and dealing with their constant poorly-documented changes to their API? These tend to be little bullet points in the spec, but each on their own can take as much work as the MVP does.

With modern tools it's pretty easy to build a basic version of an app quite quickly. But it turns out that most people don't actually want a basic version. Often they have to see the basic version first to realize that, though.

So the question ends up being: how important is schedule/cost to you compared with details/performance?

To be honest, though, most people who come to me wanting a simple iOS app are better off with a mobile-optimized webapp instead. Much quicker to build, already cross-platform, and no deployment delays while waiting for App Store approval. Mobile apps might not be as sexy as a native app, but saving lots of money is also pretty sexy.
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Lets hope it works better than some of their other products. I tried their gutter cleaning robot once and it is hard to see how it could have worked for anyone.
What's (still) a little mindbending to me about all this, is that you look at that code, code for making native apps for a phone, and it's all just HTML.

It's not for a mock-up or anything. That's what you'd use in a real app. That's lovely.
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I think it might be a New York problem in particular. I have grown quite tired of being approached by people leaving wall st who are bitter about their old job and think their new job is going to change the world. When I meet such people, I regularly suggest that they spend a year working at a startup before spending their own savings on their startup.
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I think that liking the idea is essential to success. You will give up much sooner working on an idea that you don't really care about.
I really wish people would stop getting so hung up on version numbers and just call the languages what they are - HTML and CSS. These aren't video game consoles or apple products.
If that is the case, I would think that the emergence of github may help to legally document the evolution of software products.
I would highly suggest following this quora board:

https://www.quora.com/Growth-Hacking

and then read this blog post by Andrew Chen on becoming a growth hacker:

http://andrewchen.co/2012/05/11/how-do-i-learn-to-be-a-growt...
Getting a cut of the revenue increase would be great, but how do you prove how much influence you've had on the revenue increase/decrease as compared to other steps the company took to change their fortunes? Are there any methods that can be used to tease apart each cause and effect?
> even my fingerprint reader wants an Internet connection

That is worrisome on many levels at once.
There is an alternative to managewp.com: https://wpremote.com/ (not affiliated, etc.)

It's free, and UK-based - so benefits from EU data protection. By @humanmadeltd.

EDIT: Running on EC2 AFAIK, so subject to Safe Harbor, FWIW.
I guess you did not provide any LITE version. Are people taking risk to buy it?
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Getting a good review in AppAdvice completely changed the fortunes of my app, especially because after that Apple started noticing it too.

However, AppAdvice is one of the biggest review sites out there, and reviews on smaller sites didn't have anywhere near as much impact. Also, getting that review was really lucky, and I haven't been able to recreate that magic since.

That said, as a single-person developer, I've found that I need to spend as much time and energy on hustle and promotion as I do on development and testing - and even with that I've only been moderately successful.
@mattrad - wpremote is hosted on Amazon :-)
Keep circlejerking HN, keep circlejerking. This is exactly what most people here hate about reddit, the circlejerking.
I won't deny that he did some good stuff and that the system is what made him do what he did, but let the man die in peace already.
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I believe that we're talking about Asian women being at the top of whatever field the conference referenced in the blog post was about.
Funny part is, THAT guy got the MVP done on time and under budget. It was only when they went for the next that the developer ran into trouble.
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I baked like a lobster once after spending too much time on a boat without any sunscreen. I was extremely concerned about the cancer risk and was surprised to come across this in the wikipedia article on sunburn:

...if sunscreen penetrates into the skin, it promotes indirect DNA damage, which causes the most lethal form of skin cancer, malignant melanoma. This form of skin cancer is rare, but it causes 75% of all skin cancer-related deaths.

So, while the sunburn you get without wearing sunscreen technically causes more cancer, it is of the mild and nonfatal kind. Now I'm left with one more dilemma added to good vs. bad cholesterol, omega-3 vs. omega-6, natural vs. alkali-processed cocoa, etc.
cool, thanks, didn't know that :) Unfortunately I'm stuck on 10.6 here as this machine's too old to upgrade. Tested it and everything before I replied, just in case I was wrong.
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i owned, gave away around 5 mp3 players pre-ipod, non of the factors you count, counts really; some of them were shiny, most of them had PC-based software. Apple simply had the coolness factor, hype machine and believers, which means fat profits.
They closed the question. It irritates me that the self appointed stackoverflow police are very quick to close questions. They barely give them a chance to see if something good or creative comes a long. (Such as the first comment)
I have to head off to work soon, but I have bookmarked those pages and I will be sure to read them later. Thanks :)
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Yes, I was mainly interested in the promotion part. For instance, if I want to target US market, but I'm not from US.

I realize that there are many factors, like for instance you background, qualifications, etc. But I was particularly interested in this aspect. Every author publishes their first book at one point, right?
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Or one.
Reading you comment reminds me of the costs vs. investment discussion. If the app will not make you any money it's probably an slightly expensive hobby. From a business perspective it makes a lot of sense to spend 100k USD if expect to earn it back tenfold. It's not about efficiency, but about effectiveness. It's about understanding the user goals and solve them in the best way possible. Not in the cheapest way possible.
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I've been using this one for a while because there was no good app for the iPhone. http://www.mytasktimer.com/

I'll check yours out tonight! I really love that it looks like a journal.

Have you considered making a demo app that only allows you to have one task at a time then unlock the full version with an in app purchase? In my experience IAPs convert much better than a full version paid app.
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>So now you vote for stopping progress forever for the fears of safety?

Why not?

Because you believe in "progress" as in an inherently good metaphysical entity?

I'd take safety and a better life for the vast majority of mankind over progress anyday.
I'm using Yandex.Metrica (http://metrica.yandex.com) and happy with it
"How long is a piece of string? It's impossible to answer that question. But, if I had to guess... in my experience, the string is 19 inches long."

This is the kind of thing a lot of consultants seem to post, including the anecdotes of clients going with the cheap guys and the project failing. At the end of the day, the OP's answer is no more convincing then the hypothetical "outsource to Pakistan for 1/10th the cost." I think it's a consequence of someone trying to "sell" to an inappropriate market. If you expect to pay $120 for a mattress, sitting you down and lecturing you on why you need a $1,200 mattress is unlikely to convince you. If you expect to pay $10 for a meal, a $100 restaurant will not be getting your business. This post is the chef hanging out with other chefs and restaurant people to have a chuckle at those lame tourists who expect to pay $10 for a meal. The problem is that you are dealing with people who don't go to restaurants. They're comparing eating out to things they do know about like buying food in a shop.

The reality is that pricing development is tricky. Getting an "app" developed if you know nothing about making software is tricky, even if you are willing to pay "well". A lot of projects fail. A lot of projects are not realistic to begin with. Cost, development time, quality, the definition of MVP, exactly how "bespoke" a project is, etc. all vary hugely. Quality is not always correlated to price. You can pay $60k for your MVP and have that die too. Developers will blame the clients and the clients will blame the developers.
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I was thinking about the Lite version, and I know I probably should release a Lite version (I probably will...)I just didn't think that there is that much risk. What you see is what you get in this case - It's a pretty simple app, you'll get what you expect from it :)

This is where I like Google Play market more, where you don't have to take risks. You can just buy the app, and if you don't like it, you can get a refund. Apple should have done that a long time ago.
I suggest people also read the trademark holders recent post on gaymer.org

http://www.gaymer.org/index.html/_/site-news/help-save-gayme...
I rationalize not charging anything for it by saying "well it's free so I don't have to fix it if you have problems with it" :)

Actually though it was an experiment for me using Backbone and Mongo, so I wasn't sure it was even going to hang around very long, but it's been a useful tool for me as it is so I haven't felt the need to make any real changes to it.

Plus at this point, since I haven't promoted it at all I'm the only person who's using it so I'm not super motivated to work on it.
Seems most comments are nitpicking some of the amounts and references he uses to make some of his points. This is what I read into it as a developer who has been in similar types of meetings:

1. Charge what you are worth not what the person who has the App idea wants to pay you which in some cases is next to nothing.
2. Pay no attention to people saying, "but my friend says can do it in 3 days". Tell the truth and if they can't accept the truth move on. There is no point in explaining to someone that the most sustainable way to lose weight and keep it off is years of eating well and exercise.
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Bloom filter with Python
This post shows a Python implementation of the Bloom Filter. It also has an introduction a short analysis of the behavior of the filter.
Right! As far as I know either you go all-in with a publisher or you don't go with them at all. So they won't help you promote the book if they haven't helped you published it.

However, CreateSpace that I've used to self-publish the book has options for expanding distribution to other channels such as book stores in U.S. That requires that the book store buys the books, so you're still back to square one; getting them to know you exist.

Technology books are a bit different from "Normal" books from that I've heard. If you publish a normal book the publisher want the entire book before they make a decision. As for techical books they just want a chapter or two before they say yes or no to your book. If you go with a publisher they will help you with everything from proofing to marketing in all different channels and you will sell a lot more books but get a lot less royalties.

What I did to enter new markets such as US and Spain was that I sent some free copies to influential people that I knew liked to read and talk about technology books. If they liked what they read they would talk about it, if they didn't they would at least know who I was. This of course requires that you pay for the marketing yourself.

Hope this answered the question, sort of!
I believe they had an agreement similar to this already (without the charge).

"...that the /gaymer sub-reddit had use of the word in exchange for a link to my site. Apparently that wasn’t enough for them because yesterday they filed a petition to have the trademark taken away." - Extract from a post by the trademarks owner.

Full post - http://www.gaymer.org/index.html/_/site-news/help-save-gayme...
And what about svpply.com ?
The why of it is really, really obvious. The system attacks those who threaten the system. Successful activists are top of the list. (What makes A.S. stand out is that he was white and middle class. He doesn't fit the pattern-match for an expected target.)
Well, Muslim scientists definitely used existing/forgotten knowledge of older Indian and especially Greek scientists but calling it "sitting in between and being counduit of knowledge" is extremely unfair to their work. We are talking about a process of at least 400 years (700Ad. to 1100Ad.) in multiple disciplines.
Yes, that was precisely my point: we are currently doing it for other substances, no reason I see we couldn't include alcohol. Plenty of reason we shouldn't, of course, but I think most people here agree those reasons apply to things we're currently banning, which is the thrust of the whole discussion.
They key is 23andMe was not using bleeding-edge nightly builds but official "upgrade-recommended" releases.

GATK currently has no concept of a "stable" branch of their repo (Appistry is going to provide quarterly releases in the future, which is great).

The flag I am raising is that a "stable" release is needed before it get's integrated into a clinical pipeline. Because the Broad's reputation is so high, it is important to raise this flag as otherwise researchers and even clinical bioinformaticians assume choosing the latest release of GATK for their black-box variant caller is as safe as an IT manager choosing IBM.
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I don't agree with all of these points, but I also don't understand why people go to clubs. The music to too loud to socialise, the drinks are often poor and expensive and it takes a long time to get served. Unless you really like dancing, it's not really worth it.

I do love pubs though, especially ones that serve real ale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cask_ale) and that don't play background music. A much nicer way to go for a pint or two and a conversation with a couple of friends.
Mr. Steve Jobs was your role model, wasn't he?
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I live in Uruguay, and I can definitely believe it can be made for a lot less than U$ 60.000 (for comparison, that's 3 years of my salary).

I actually have a quote from a local company called XSeed ( http://www.xseed.com.uy/ ) for an app for both Android and iOs, and it comes out for a third of the amount.

Yes, you can be burned if you don't know the locals, like the guys with the Egyptians, or the Pakistanis. That's why many companies here in Uruguay get the jobs - the ones that are responsible cost twice or three times as much as the cheap Egyptian, Indian, etc.. companies, but they deliver, while being vastly cheaper than US or European counterparts. The really good ones can charge very close to US prices (go globalization :) ).
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Help Save Gaymer - Erase the Hate
That's why developing an application and selling it for 99c is so nice. You build it for yourself, you get it out there, and if people like it, you'll still be motivated to update it later on!
My only concern about all this Markdown, Latex etc. is "spell checking". I'm Turkish and written several books (jQuery, php, javascript) but all of them were written in Microsoft Word because only Word has the most comprehensive spell checking for Turkish.

Can someone suggest me a good Latex editor with good spell-checking (other than English)?
Base -2 would get us cleanly to the $15,000 project mentioned in the article. A sort of "Lose £30 in 30 days," approach.

However, I am not a mathematician. I don't know that base -2 complies with the laws of mathematics.
Well, the first part of the storm was quite a while ago when he first sent the C&D and it did make it to the front page. At the time he was running his site on a shared server. Needless to say, plenty of people visited his site and it was very quickly suspended by his provider. He tried to call it a DDOS attack and as I recall he had moved it to one of the providers that specializes in hosting porn sites and such that tend to get attacked a lot.

I'm guessing this has already cost him quite a bit of money, and if he ends up having to pay a lawyer to try and defend the trademark, it's going to get expensive very quickly. But some people would rather double down than accept that they might be better off letting something go.
I'm so glad to hear you like the design :).
We actually switched to the notebook style later on, the initial idea was completely different (more like a Metro style).
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> I can definitely believe it can be made for a lot less than U$ 60.000

How can you make that judgement without knowing what was actually involved in the projects?
The biggest accessibility problem I have with LaTeX for bookwriting is that the stylesheet language is very strange by modern standards. You can ignore it if you're writing academic papers with a provided stylesheet (or with one of the default ones), but you often will want to do some custom formatting if you're writing a book. I've heard ConTeXt might be an improvement, though.
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Awesome stuff, thanks!
I remember reading that the reason preventing this before was the performance on the css rendering engines, does anyone know if that was the case?
The title should really be "5 Reasons not to go to shitty, over priced clubs ever again" as it has nothing to do with bars in general.
Ahh the efficiency argument.

The trick is, academics often have excess manpower capacity in the form of grad students and post-docs. Even though personell is usually one of the highest expenses on any given grant, they often don't look at ways to improve the efficiency of their research man-hours.

That's not a blank rule, as we have definitely had success with the value proposition of research efficiency, but in general, a lot of things business adopt to improve project time (like Theory of Constraints project management, Mindset/Skillset/Toolset matching of personel et) is of no interest to academic researchers.
Try the Pampered Chef timer - yes, it's a multi-level marketing company (aka pyramid scheme), but they make some good basic tools. I have one that I've been using on a weekly basis for 3+ years on the original battery, dropped frequently and still works.
That would just move the blocking code elsewhere, and now you have one extra framework / message queue on your stack (free complexity)
This reminds me of a conversation I had back when I was freelancing.

It was along the lines of:

Client - "Aren't you afraid that Pakistani/Indian developers would undercut you and everyone would go there for their apps?"

Me - "If everyone were going to outsource there, I'd have more work fixing that stuff up, not less"
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Text-only Chat Roulette?
I don't think "adding robotic arm to automate tasks" adds anything to the market worthy of a patent.
Thank you (and thanks to everyone else who responded). I always considered podcasting as a way to keep existing users engaged rather than attracting new users. I have learned something from this thread. :)
Did Twitter ban an account for being unfunny?
How many successful DDOS attacks do you know about and how can you find out if the participating nodes are part of a botnet or use iframes?
I must be missing something here. If someone hacks an oauth provider (e.g. Facebook, Google, etc.) and gets my password there does that not mean they can then log into any service that supports oauth as me at that point? Probably even if I have purposely avoided ever using oauth for anything?

How is this different from the vulnerability of using the same password everywhere?
Well after jp1989's reply, I'd say it's the same... I've only ever used svpply for inspiration and personally think that thefancy.com is better for that. I buy most of my stuff directly from the stores websites so I liked that Helishopter just brought me through as I feel that I trust the service more that way. Thefancy adds it's own premium to the price on all of the stuff I've found there so I always google the product and buy it from the original store instead. The fancy's images are waaaaay better though so I'll probably stick to that approach. Get better images and you've got a winner imo!
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ipython can also be pretty at least when using the Qt console, for example it can embed pymatlib plots and sympy formulas inline instead of opening them in a window. I'm not sure whether bpython can do this.
"It may very well be that improved infant mortality [...] are not linked to overall improved quality of life."

Are you serious? I read here that being alive isn't necessarily a premise to having an improved quality of life!

Edit (addition): I wish I could down-vote you for this kind of nonsense.
I wished for years for Java to determine "implements interface" by method checking not the way it does it currently.

And while Scala has "structural typing" I'd also wish it would implement it the way Go does not with explicit methods.
This reminds me a lot of the discussions I was having 12 or 13 years ago about developing a website. "You want me to pay how much for a website?!?!? My cousin can do that for 1/10th of that you're quoting."

Today, the difference between the plain-old website market and the mobile market is that few people on the demand side of the mobile market have any frame of reference or experience. How many people have bought a mobile app, compared to the number of people who have built a reasonably sized website? My guess the difference is a few orders of magnitude, maybe more.

Beyond that, I think it is also the sign of an immature supply side. If you wanted a blog 12/13 years ago, you had to pay someone to make it. Now you get one for free with blogger or wordpress. If you want a decent ecomm solution, you don't have to role your own.

Eventually both sides will figure it out: the supply side will add niche/task specific tools [1], and the demand side will gain the experience sorting through the options. [2]

[1] We see this this with a few of the dumb "hey, add your RSS feed" options for mobile apps.

[2] Also, equally likely in my mind: the raw horsepower of mobile hardware will make skinny clients more of an option, disrupting the app economy in general.
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