Show HN: iOS Mix - a list of useful iOS projects(iosmix.com)

Show HN: iOS Mix - a list of useful iOS projects

http://iosmix.com

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At first glance, it looks like all of the content on this site has been scraped off the site I run, Cocoa Controls (http://www.cocoacontrols.com). I really hope I'm wrong about this.

See, for example, this pull to refresh control: http://iosmix.com/content/pull-refresh-tableview-ios

And here it is on Cocoa Controls: http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/pull-to-...

You'll notice that the screenshot is from a Heroku app I built a couple years ago that lists my Heroku websites. I also wrote the text that appears on this page.

Here's an excerpt from the site's database (as seen through a Heroku console):

  irb(main):005:0> c = Control.find(1)
  irb(main):006:0> c.description
  => "As pioneered in Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie 2), pull the table view down to expose a refresh control. Keep pulling and release, and the TableView will reload."
  irb(main):007:0> c.created_at
  => Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:39:20 UTC +00:00

Here's another example:

On Github (https://github.com/shu223/Stats), it's description reads: "In-app monitering memory usage in iOS Apps."

iosmix, http://iosmix.com/content/stats-ios, reads: "In-app monitoring of system conditions for iOS apps. Displays: The variation of memory usage [kB]; The total memory usage [kB]; The variation of CPU time [msec]; The number of UIView subclasses."

Cocoa Controls, http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/stats, reads: "In-app monitoring of system conditions for iOS apps. Displays: The variation of memory usage [kB]; The total memory usage [kB]; The variation of CPU time [msec]; The number of UIView subclasses."

This is because on October 7, I edited the description.

  From: [email protected]
  Subject: Control Updated
  Date: October 7, 2012 12:19:14 PM PDT
  To: [email protected]

  Howdy - The control Stats (1265) was just changed by Aaron Brethorst.

  Here are the changes:

   description: In-app monitering memory usage in iOS Apps. => In-app monitoring of system conditions for iOS apps. Displays: The variation of memory usage [kB]; The total memory usage [kB]; The variation of CPU time [msec]; The number of UIView subclasses.

jyap14 anni fa

I agree. I follow the cocoacontrols.com Twitter feed and this is exactly the same order of recently featured projects. Not cool.

BTW, thanks for the site Aaron!

aaronbrethorst14 anni fa

My pleasure, glad you like it! :)

alpb14 anni fa

I would prefer Cocoa Controls: http://www.cocoacontrols.com Great job on your project, but instead of moving on with this one, I'd recommend you to contact Aaron (owner of Cocoa Controls) and maybe work on that project together, because that site works just fine and already has a lot of repositories.

MaxGabriel14 anni fa

I don't think there has to be an answer to this question, but any plans to differentiate yourself from Cocoa Controls?

dan123414 anni fa

Nice collection.

Suggestion: It would be nice if the licence type was included in the descriptions.

praveenhm14 anni fa

This is nice collection of ios projects. This is good starting point of a newbie.

mroling14 anni fa

Wow. This is a fantastic collection. Thank you!