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Its been almost a year since RubyMotion launched. Some of you have gotten a chance to play with it. Others have probably gone full-speed with it. Some are working in teams, others have surely gone solo. My question…

Ok, so I have this Rails app, its running on Heroku. Its making me a small bit of money, and I'd like to expand the feature set and go after a higher-margin type of customer. My first problem is that I expect to log a…

Heroku.com itself is down right now, and a flurry of other apps. Wasn't just me: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/heroku.com

I have somewhat popular Google gadgets that I host through AppEngine. They make me no money today, in fact they cost me a few bucks a month to host. With Google's pricing changes, I might be looking at an unsustainable…

(Late entry) I applied and received an offer, but I rejected it. Touché!

(Rare?) I never applied, but was hired anyway!

I applied and was hired

I never applied (other reasons). Explain below.

I never applied because I don't care to work for Google.

I applied and was rejected

So, Google is hiring like crazy, but they are ultra selective. I wonder if that selectivity precludes some folks from ever applying in the first place. How many of you fit that description? Edit: there is lots of…

I never applied because there is no way I'd get hired.

So I took one of jacquesm's ideas from his list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790564 ... as I told him I would do: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791494 ... and build a gadget around the (5) AdProfs idea:…