What do you think about point number five; graphics? Is graphics an important part in the next future game hit? Graphics is certainly not a priority in the social games that have been succesful so far. The beauty of many hit social games I feel is in that they're so easy to start to use and even my mom understands them, will AAA graphics add to that effectively (since it's so expensive)?
Hahaha. Figure this: "Do you have a card?", "Not only have I got a card, I've got an NFC-enabled card. Put it against your phone and let magic happen." Awkward but hey I want one.
Great to see a nice overview of best practise in app store screenshots. As an app-developer I also would like to stress the benefit of good screenshots. To add on these best practises I think you shouldn't do a real life example of the app in use without having some serious equipment (camera/lightning) and possibly "models". The author mentions to do this with care but my 2cents is just don't do it. I've only seen a few decent tries on this and generally that would be an app from a well-funded company that obviously spent a lot of effort/cash on it. Those screens set the standard in that genre and for a small developer to compete with that is not effective, do a digital less-is-more screen with good copy instead.
This could be mitigated by TaskRabbit cooperating with an insurance provider and selling "insured" work. There are great margins on insurance as we all know. In their TOS TaskRabbit basically says "TaskRabbit.com Only Provides a Venue" (check it out: http://www.taskrabbit.com/tos). Why don't some retail-insurance megacorp approach them? This could be TaskRabbits no1 source of income instead of their no1 problem...
Thanks for your reply. Talked with some more informed friends about the situation in Sweden and their conclusion is that work like TaskRabbit probably could exist in some kind of grey area (especially when it's one private individual working for another private individual for a small amount). However when the service grows the unions will try everything to make your workers "unionized" implying that either the service company (e.g. TaskRabbit) or the buyer needs to pay insurance and minimum-wage for the work being performed - basically hiring the individual.
I guess this is not interesting for must of you US readers but it could be telling of what could happen to your TaskRabbiters.
I'm not sure about the US legal situation but here in Sweden there is so much legislation to protect workers that a TaskRabbit kind of service becomes hard to achieve.
What kind of risk/liability does these "employees" generally take? Like washing someone's unlocked car, is the employee liable for any damages or the company? If I'm do carpenting work distributed from TaskRabbit and hurt myself so badly I get disabled, do TaskRabbit have insurance for me? What is the standard for this? One reason why buying services is expensive is that the service provider takes risk and needs to insure their workers, I very much doubt that these TaskRabbit-type companies do that... Or am I wrong?
Thanks for your comment =) Nothing is confusing me there, but try to search for "django script cron" and you'll see people suggesting setting up urls to start the script, having an external script that import settings and many other complex things. The craziest thing I've seen (but probably useful for some cases) is to have the regular requests from google-bots invoke scripts... That's why I think it's a good thing to suggest managment commands when they're so easy and integrates nicely with your apps. Celery however is good for more complex usecases. I was merely making a suggestion for best-practise.
Thanks! Good starting point. I'd like a section on using django on cloud services, e.g. AWS Elastic beanstalk. Another best practise I'd want is scheduling scripts with https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-managemen... and Cron, or using Celery. There is much confusion on those topics I think.
I'm overreacting saying the article is rascist, I got that now. :)
But I strongly believe the article portrays the Chinese in the traditional way as a land of copies and cheap stuff, when it's a country full of people dreaming to build the next TI.
