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Re:The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist on Friday January 03, 2014 @10:08AM (#7005743)
Thanks! Sorry about your phone :(
Re:The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist on Thursday January 02, 2014 @04:21PM (#7002387)
Shameless plug here, check out my iPhone app Begin: http://beginapp.co/

It's goal is to be an extremely simple to-do list. I'd love to hear what you guys think.

Re:The next generation of Instapaper on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:07PM (#5610241)
Congratulations to Marco. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
Re:Who Can Name the Biggest Number? on Saturday January 19, 2013 @11:54PM (#5086041)
I really enjoyed reading this. It covers so many different topics and is relatively simple to understand.
Re:Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @09:32PM (#4662821)
Wow, this is awesome!
Re:Icon fonts and their usefulness in iOS development on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @07:31PM (#4662457)
Sure thing.
Hey guys, I am the creator of Horizon. Horizon strives to be the most intuitive and easy to use iPhone calendar app ever made. It provides the weather at the time and location of every event in your calendar. The app is not quite ready yet, I'm estimating about 3 months until launch. You can sign up to be notified of its release by following the link, and if you refer 10 people you'll get a free copy when it comes out! If anybody is interested in beta testing, please email me at [email protected]
Re:Storm's first birthday on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @06:53PM (#4545971)
I know this has been repeated ad nauseum, but I'd really like to see blogs put what their product is somewhere on the page.
Re:Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:54AM (#4333997)
Musk was responsible for PayPal. However, he wasn't responsible for the mess it turned in to. Musk even mentioned in an interview that he PayPal has gotten much worse than when it started out. Features that were in their minds since PayPal was founded still haven't been implemented to this day. It's kind of disappointing, seeing how it could have been a great device to speed up payments worldwide.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

Ask HN: How do you come up with ideas?

I find I have trouble coming up with good startup ideas (or in my case, ios app ideas). I often think about something that I would want but I have trouble coming up with anything. So, how do you guys come up with your ideas? What do you think of when you are brainstorming, or does it just come to you out of the blue?Thanks, K

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Thanks for the advice, Good to hear from someone who has had something similar happen. Good luck with your project!
Thanks, and I agree with you. The photo space is over saturated. But my app isn't a photo app. My app will have an element of nostalgia to it. It will let people remember important events and moments in there lives. It will trigger one of the strongest human emotions. So I don't like to think of my app as a photo app, it provides a token, a window into someone's past. Do you see what I am saying? It will be a very tough app to make, and will only work if I do it right. But that is my goal, and hopefully I can achieve it.
The app that is very similar to my idea is sharypic: http://gigaom.com/2012/02/29/with-new-app-sharypic-aims-to-b...
Thanks, this is great advice. You really changed the way I look at it and I now have even more enthusiasm towards making the app!

Ask HN: What do you do when someone else executes your idea?

A couple of weeks ago I had an idea for my next app. It was very exciting for me because I usually have trouble coming up with ideas. After a couple weeks, another company released an app that is strikingly similar to what my idea was. And they executed it quite well. That's not to say that I don't think I could do a better job, I do. And I think this could motivate me to make my app even...

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