I'm wondering if this posting is a practical joke of some sort. The post linked to here is so dense with vocabulary, yet somehow lacks any meaningful content.
I kept reading only to see if there was a punchline at the bottom. Something to the effect of: "See? All that crap written above really cries out for some information architecture, doesn't it?"
I don't really care what I get for my money. I was just glad to have an opportunity to support a prolific developer that is making the Clojure community a better place.
Is this posted because the Ultrabook is interesting, or because the scroll-to-animate functionality of the website is interesting? For me, it's the latter, since I have long forsaken Dell.
Once the site loaded completely (which took a fair bit of time), I was able to use scrolling to move forward/backward through the animation of the demo. This is certainly an interesting UX, but after about 20 seconds of this I found it cumbersome.
I think that Amazon should probably admit the error and pay the guy. However, the publicity that the author is now receiving over this is probably worth far more than the price of 6,000 books.
In the end, he'll probably be secretly thanking Amazon for allowing him to rise above obscurity.
I think this is the way to go. Offer folks one or two shorter examples of your work for free, and they will be more comfortable with purchasing your longer works.
If the free examples are solid, then they will be linked to and shared. This will help establish your name and expertise in the subject matter, and will bring many more eyeballs to your site, which will hopefully convert into sales.
Wow - According to their projections based on current usage, I'm seeing a 100x increase in my daily cost. I guess I will be migrating off of App Engine. I'm feeling pretty burned at this point.
Thanks for sharing. The diary/journal app space is pretty crowded, otherwise I think you would be selling a lot more apps. The one thing that I noticed is that there aren't many reviews. I think that reviews are key when someone is evaluating your app for purchase.
Thanks for sharing your experience. While it's great that your app got featured by Apple, it would have been more informative if you could have gauged the effect of your updates to the app before the Featured App effect kicked in.
I look forward to kicking the tires, since I've been looking for a solid replacement for Parse ever since Facebook bought them.