lookatpete
Story of a Side Project, Part 2
Story of a Side Project, Part 1
All Apps Have To Fit In Somewhere
Is Your App a Reference or a Guide?
Twitter Music is not about Music
My Credit Card is Less Secure than my Facebook
I Want This App: iPhotograph
Social Proof for Unsocial Products
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99
on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:42PM (#4389265)
http://1dollarscan.com/index.php
Haven't used them, but it might be worth a shot
The Battle Between "Public" and "Private" Products
Re:My iPhone App with the Boring Icon is out
on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @05:39PM (#4352476)
It's a native app built in XCode. Except for the navigation bar background and icons, it's all drawn manually in the app. I found it to result in a much faster experience.
One change I didn't mention in the post is that I finally moved from ASIHTTP to AFNetworking for my networking library. That's significantly faster as well
My iPhone App with the Boring Icon is out
Move on From Mailto:
Re:Make Your App Icons Boring
on Monday July 09, 2012 @06:09PM (#4220829)
The premise of my post is that your first assertion ("an icon is an ad") is not a fact, but a choice. If you search for "email" in the App Store, would Sparrow jump out at you? No, but they've chosen not to pursue that "advertising" strategy. Their growth is based on fully delighting their users with the product, and an icon which, IMO, looks like it always belonged on my phone.
Sparrow's growth comes from happy customers (and some traditional advertising), not an icon that looks like an ad.
I'm curious how you A/B test app icons...Do you switch from one version to the next and compare downloads?
Also, can you clarify what you mean by "developers are...incentivized against #2"?
Make Your App Icons Boring
Your users aren't "addicts"
Nostalgia is the Most Powerful Retention Tactic
Writing is the Act of Explaining to your Future Self
Re:Show HN: My first "full-stack" project, Cinematic
on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @03:00AM (#3446122)
Clickable: http://cinematicapp.com
Show HN: My first "full-stack" project, Cinematic
http://cinematicapp.comWhy build another movie showtimes app? Because other apps are cluttered with a lot of ads, irrelevant info (crew listings?), and take a lot of taps to actually get at the good stuff, the showtimes!I made what I wanted: a fast, simple, no-frills movie showtimes app.Additionally, this is my first completed, full-stack project.The showtimes are scraped and fed using an API...