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Hey HN, I built Hashtini in my spare time to solve a problem my son, a YouTube creator, faced: sharing his channel offline with friends and schoolmates. He found it difficult to get people to visit his content when he…

Hello mobile app devs, I have been trying to find out solutions for dynamically changing certain UI elements in my app without releasing a new app version. For e.g. I want to test whether an onboarding string A is…

Hello, has anyone created a new project using the open source parse-server? Would you recommend using it for new projects? Any other alternative that we can use that has the same feature-sets or better than…

I have an itch to design a game. I have got the basic idea behind the game but I don't want to just start coding without thinking of monetization. Any advice from gaming experts here? Thanks,

Hello guys, I am trying to come up with a solution to send email newsletter with product recommendation to our users. This is what I have: 1. User-list on mailchimp. 2. All users segmented into different categories. 3.…

I am using SDWebImageCache for async image loading but it is still slow and sometimes takes a few seconds if the user scrolls too fast. What different ways have you used to make the image loading faster with fast…

I have recently submitted our app to the app store after weeks of coding and hacking things to work. At this point I have realized that the quality of code has deteriorated considerably even though it works. The…

Since I have been working on a new startup, I was thinking of open sourcing my previous project to HN members. The advantages: 1 You will get to learn a lot working on a live system. 2. You can introduce as many…

I have been fiddling around with facebook promotions to advertise my MVP iphone app Finderous. Here are some interesting statistics on the blog.

Hi Guys, I have recently released an iphone app (old app but pivoted to a different idea). The app has a limited set of features and also limited feature set website (http://www.findero.us), but would like to test it…

Guys, how do you figure out the weak points of your application that led to rejection? Is there a way we can get a feedback on the areas we need to improve. Sure, I can list out points that may have caused my…

Hi Guys, I have a question related to the framework I am using to develop an app (webapp, mobile). I have a webapp with front end written in GWT and backend written in php and I use the same backend for my ios/android…

I and my co-founder together want to apply for two different ideas. I will be applying with one and my co-founder will be applying with the other. Do we need to submit a different intro-video on each application?

Hello HNers, We have just released our Android App for Finderous and it can be downloaded from Goolge Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finderous. Finderous (http://www.findero.us) is a location…

Hey Guys, I was wondering what software/website/app you use to keep track of the expenses for your startups? Any recommendations and reviews? Thanks

I am thinking of adding gamification to my app Finderous (http://www.findero.us) and want to know if anybody has used any such similar apis for their projects. It will be easier for me to develop the framework myself,…

I have been working on my website for quite some time and I designed/redesigned it multiple times to get the users to interact with it. At the current state it has a lot of call to action buttons and I have tried to…

Is anybody experiencing problem with dotcloud? It is very slow today and also my own website is taking ages to load.

Hi Guys, I have just released my free IPhone App: Finderous, available on ITunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/finderous/id520384764?mt=8 . I would appreciate if you could pass on some comments and suggestions.…

I will be releasing my iphone app as soon as it is approved by Apple. How and when do you guys think I should release it to the world. From the statistics point of view, most of the apps are downloaded on the weekends,…

Yay, my first ever iphone app Finderous got approved today at the app store. Before it is ready for sale, I have got some promo codes for you guys to try it. Please use these codes and let me know how you feel about it:…

Hello, I have made a location based short QnA website called finderous (http://www.findero.us). I would appreciate if you folks could review it and pass on some feedback and comments. Thanks.