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Ask HN: Where can I give my app away for free?

2 points·by isntThatSth·il y a 12 mois·7 comments

What's your experience using Lynx (mobile framework)?

7 points·by isntThatSth·l’année dernière·1 comments

My app charted on the App Store, and that sucked

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2 points·by isntThatSth·l’année dernière·2 comments

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isntThatSth
·il y a 12 mois·discuss
It's essentially a find-a-name-for-your-coming-child app for expecting parents.
isntThatSth
·il y a 12 mois·discuss
Please shoot me an email (the email address is in my bio) if you have an active Android developer account and are potentially interested in taking over the app; then I'll send you the info.
isntThatSth
·il y a 12 mois·discuss
Not all new tech is good. As someone who experienced life before smartphones, I can unironically and without hyperbole say that life was better back then, and people were smarter and more informed. Now imagine this dumbification on steroids: That's what the AI revolution is.
isntThatSth
·il y a 12 mois·discuss
> It makes no sense to bother individual translators with such a miniscule job

You're not bothering them if you're paying for the job. On your part, all you need to do is to set up a web-based interface that makes it easy and fast for them to log in and add the translations.
isntThatSth
·il y a 12 mois·discuss
Machine-created translations are bad. They've become better over time, but they're still bad. If you've ever tried having your native language butchered in the way that machine-created translations butcher my native language on the daily, you'd understand why. I suspect a lot of the push for machine translations comes from monolingual developers in Silicon Valley.
isntThatSth
·il y a 12 mois·discuss
It wasn't immediately obvious that the form on the page can be edited. Also, several links aren't working. While the idea might be good, some work needs to be put into telling users what this is, why they would need it, and how to use it. Good luck!
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
Six months of darkness is a bit hyperbolic, to say the least. The sunshine, temperature and daylight situation in Denmark is on the whole comparable to what you'd find in Germany, the UK, and Northern France.

Also, long winters? You're thinking about Canada. The daily mean temperature in Aarhus, Denmark in January (the coldest month) is 1.3 C (34.3 F). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus#Climate.

By comparison, Montreal, Canada has a daily mean temperature in January of -9.2 C (15.4 F).
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
> I probably would have gone Proton but they don't support forwarding.

They do on their paid plans. https://proton.me/support/email-forwarding
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
The Proton ecosystem (email, calendar, drive, docs, password management, VPN, etc.) is great. https://proton.me
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
Hope everything works out for you!
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
Fastmail.
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
Based on the numbers I've seen and the comments I've read here, I'd go for in-app purchases instead. Good luck with your app!
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
Well, in this case the screenshots show you exactly what the app provides. Having said that, in the future I'll probably go for an in-app purchase model like you suggested, given how few people download paid apps.
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
I have to say I don't recognize that experience at all. There are plenty of good apps - both from large companies and solo developers.
isntThatSth
·l’année dernière·discuss
It genuinely wasn't meant as an ad. What sucked about it was realizing that every prospect I had of making money through paid apps (as opposed to apps with in-app purchases) withered away once I realized just how few downloads paid apps get.