If you were to look at a teenagers phone and ask "what does this word mean, and this word, and this word." That is our audience. Example: "OMG LOL FML" (clearly you know those words, but your parents may not)
Apple actually rejected our App the first time because our marketing copy was too ridiculous. This is the more reasonable version.
Paul here. Happy to answer any questions you may have.
facebook login is annoying but did get us out the door. poor grammar is intentional.
We used to have the words "WUT" repeated 200x in the app store copy, but Apple politely told us that wasn't good enough. We had more than a couple people tell us it was great though.
I actually did this policy to get one of my apps in the store. As more people eventually use it (and presumably good reviews roll in), I anticipate that I will be able to remove the features which I didn't think were needed.
On the other hand, I really don't like the idea of apple having editorial review over apps for being too simple. The only app which I feel might be too simple is an additional fart or flashlight app. And I'm still inclined to let those be distributed in some way (if not directly through the app store process).
I once had someone pitch me an idea for an app, which coincidentally I had actually built and was selling on the app store. He wasn't willing to pay 99cents for it (but had previously been willing to quit his job to make it hypothetically with me).
Rdl is correct. Smart people often get hired by small firms which do contract work for government organizations. It allows the smart people to live outside of the hierarchy imposed by a large institution.
The motivations are very similar to startups working outside of larger companies. You get more freedom in work choices and pay scale.
Oh, I've been using EC2 + S3 for five years (2007). I was looking in to the newer stuff (beanstalk, dynamodb).
Please add your feedback to the details pads so other people can use it in the future. That is why I posted it on hackpad and not my blog.
EDIT: thanks for the feedback.
Sorry if I wasn't clear of the purpose. I don't love the Amazon documentation and wish people would use Hackpad instead because it would be more up to date.
This is my effort to bootstrap that step by providing and overview and details rather than googling old blog entries ever time I want to setup EC2 with ubuntu.
> were 33% more likely to achieve them than those that merely formulated goals.
I've heard this before and I've also heard the exact opposite. That telling other people your goals reduces the chances of finishing them. The theory I remember (I google but was unable to find a good link) was that telling someone a goal feels 60% as good as actually doing the goal itself. So it is easier to just tell everyone your goals and then invent new goals.
I'm not trying to contradict Alex Maccaw. I've just noticed this dichotomy before and been curious how people reconcile the two theories.
Has anyone else noticed these two recommendations or know what I'm referring to?
When I was five I asked this question and got a simple answer. I'm not an economist so it is probably incompletely or completely wrong.
If you notice that your money is worth more tomorrow, you are going to save your money and spend it tomorrow. This is true in situations of "deflation".
This sounds good to you, because all you have to do is wait and you'll be better off tomorrow. You don't even have to work to get more stuff.
However, you aren't the only person with this idea. Everyone saves their money in the bank. The people who sell goods and services, sell fewer goods, and maybe go out of business.
The economy slows down.
On the other side, if you design an economy so that inflation exists. People want to spend because in the future their money will be worth (a little bit) less.
Money flows around a lot. People who sells things make money and stay in business. People have jobs and the money is still worth something.
Remember money isn't worth something, trading good fluidly and efficiently is worth something. Money lets us do that. So a currency that lets us do that is good.
If anyone knows more about the situation, please add it. I don't know any economists so this story is probably pretty incomplete.