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What a great website aesthetic, takes me way back to when the Internet felt a lot smaller.

Tons of great little UI details and interactions as part of this release. Really, really good stuff.

This is truly incredible, I can't wait to show this to my kids after school. Thank you so much for doing this work.

That's enough to buy some lottery tickets!

> Who else lobbies like Intuit?

Google spent $21 million in 2018. Facebook spent $12 million. Amazon spent $14 million. Microsoft spent $9 million.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/23/tech-companies-lobbying-...

The crux of this article is a PowerPoint slide from 12 years ago? Really?

Looking at the incredibly long and in-depth process Uber went through on their past branding, and how quickly they jettisoned it with their new branding after they changed CEOs, it just makes me realize how insane it must be to work at a company that would be so bipolar in their design and branding efforts.

Friends of mine who switched to Figma from Sketch say regular actions are much snappier than Sketch like panning and zooming around huge artboards. I really need to give it a try as well

Love all the Thai restaurants in the Triangle! We moved from North Raleigh down to Apex a few years back and at nearly the same time a new Thai restaurant opened up less than a mile from our house that's really great. Working at home and having the ability to quickly grab Thai food right down the street is both convenient and dangerous for my diet :)

"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution"

When I said "change of fate" I meant reversal of fortunes. Not very often the #1 dominant company in an industry sinks and the #2 takes over, which is the scenario I was discussing. Not just a top company declining, but their direct competitor ascending as well.

If Uber ends up going down in flames, unable to recover from the scandals and lawsuits, and Lyft prevails, it will be the most incredible change of fate in the business world this century or perhaps longer.

The future of automobiles and transportation is still being swirled about, and it feels like Uber's downfall has blown the game WIDE open, ready for anyone (maybe Uber, maybe Lyft, maybe Tesla, Google, Apple, an automaker) to just step in and take all the riches.

Hey everyone, Treeo is an app I've been working on with a friend for almost 2 years. It's a digital version of the popular "celeb voting" party game that's been around popular culture (movies, TV shows, YouTube) for over 20 years, but is expanded out to let users vote on anything.

I know consumer apps aren't really popular on HN, but I've been a part of this community for a very long time and always like to Show HN my latest projects.

I'd love to answer any questions!

macOS is easier to use in pretty much every way, and I write Mac and iOS software which you can't do on Linux.

You pay them to talk to you, whatever their hourly rate is. Not a big secret.

Quick story: here in Apex, NC, Google announced they'd bring Fiber here and everybody was really excited. A few months later when the website went up, everyone I know entered their address to check availability and it turns out that Google decided to draw the "line" just outside our town, stopping short of including Apex (a suburb of Raleigh) but including other suburbs like Cary and Morrisville.

The whole town was pissed. We were excited for Google Fiber and then had it taken away from us when they had previously said Apex would be included.

Fast forward another few months and we heard rumblings that AT&T might be debuting their GigaPower fiber service in Apex. Soon after, AT&T verified this rumor then started running fiber lines all over. My neighborhood (and others in Apex near me) all got gigabit fiber for under $100/mo, AND it turns out Google dragged their feet with the surrounding suburbs and they didn't get Google Fiber till months later, but by then everyone had just signed up for AT&T GigaPower and forgot all about Google.

I'm sure this will get downvoted into oblivion, but why should I or other engineers/entrepreneurs look at Sam Altman as a massive startup success story when his lone startup Loopt never really achieved product-market fit, and ended up in a firesale?

Across 5 funding rounds, Crunchbase lists Loopt as having raised $39 million and then was acquired (acqui-hired?) for $43 million. He didn't create any multiples of value for his investors. Loopt wasn't a breakout hit like so many other YC startups have been. It was certainly one of the first interesting location-based apps in the App Store, but soon was surrounded by other location-based apps and never really appeared to surface and gain traction.

Obviously Sam runs YC now and has dramatically improved it, but in the lens of being an entrepreneur, isn't he still essentially unproven, and not a success story in the startup world?

I've used this a bunch and it's really great. Recommended.

I can't believe some of the comments in this thread. Paw is an advanced developer tool with serious functionality for testing APIs, and many of the most upvoted comments are basically just posting links to similar tools, with substantially less functionality, that are free.

How many of these commenters make thousands of dollars every month as professional software engineers? How many make thousands each week? Paw is an extremely high quality, native Mac app, made by a small team trying to provide for their families by building software for other software engineers like all of us. It's a paid tool but it's probably the most sophisticated API testing tool that exists.

I've been a completely satisfied Paw user for over a year. It's been invaluable to me and I use it constantly. It is worth the money. It is more sophisticated with a far better user interface than anything else out there. Use the trial, buy it if you like it, but this pattern of comments saying Check Out Product Z, It's Like Product Y But Free (And Less Good) makes me hate coming to HN.

Can I ask why Jeremy would be entitled to anything since nothing was ever signed? If Kyle had a verbal agreement with Jeremy to pay him X or give him Y equity in exchange for the work he did, I don't see that in Sam's post or in the complaint that was filed. Without a signed agreement nor a verbal agreement, why would the courts give Jeremy anything?

I think one of the best points of this piece is referencing the iconic U sticker that nearly all Uber drivers have on their windshield or passenger window. When I've taken an Uber in an unfamiliar city (the bulk of my Uber trips basically) and I'm on a busy street corner, seeing the unmistakeable black-and-white sticker lets me know quickly and simply that I'm hopping into the right car, or where to start walking if it's 100' away.

What will the new Uber car sticker look like from afar? A circuit board? A community college parking lot pass? There's no way it will be as obvious and instantly recognizable as a big U sticker. In fact I can't even imagine Uber drivers will swap their decals out, ever, so it'll create a rift in the overall brand (drivers with U stickers, website/app with the new brand) and increase overall confusion with passengers.

I think many people would prefer to sleep, watch movies or read a book than talk to someone for hours in a car.

If you think "build it and they will come" applies in the mobile space, you're completely wrong and about to light a bunch money on fire. I'd be very interested to know if this team talked to 25+ people smack in the middle of their target audience about their expense-tracking pains before starting to think about building the app. It really seems like they thought of a problem (or what they perceived as a problem) and then built the app. If they dove deep on the problem and talked directly to people who they thought would most benefit from the app, they certainly would have uncovered more information about why Birdly would or would not work for them and could make important product choices based on that feedback.

Why don't you work on an interface that isn't a nearly exact copy of Slack's before you work on some replies. Copying their functionality is one thing but copying their look and feel is not only pathetic, but against U.S. intellectual property laws. You guys made the equivalent of a Chinese knock-off product. And why not focus on your startup instead of working on cloning other team's hard work?

What would be an in-depth, wonderful answer to the question of "What's a navigation bar?"

This list reads like a multiple-choice test at a community college for a "Survey of iOS Technologies" course. Casual iPhone aficionados who read 9to5Mac would dazzle an interviewer if they were merely asked these trivia-type questions.

And it's all written in Swift! This is probably the largest application written in Swift so far, and definitely the largest one on GitHub that I've seen. If you're looking to make the transition from Obj-C to Swift (or from any language to Swift) this is probably a solid example to learn from.

The developers of Camera+ have been releasing sales figures throughout the years that Camera+ has been available. Of course, they make millions from the app so it paints a slightly different picture than the typical "indie" app sales numbers.

Camera+ first month: http://taptaptap.com/blog/cameraplus-first-month-sales/

Camera+ hits $2 million: http://taptaptap.com/blog/cameraplus-hits-2-million-sales/

Camera+ hits $6 million: http://taptaptap.com/blog/cameraplus-reaches-6-million-sales...

Some things to note about Camera+ sales figures and how popular their app has been: 1) they run the extremely popular MacHeist promotion so they already have an established audience and email distribution list of over 100k people, 2) they were well known in the iOS community before releasing Camera+ so they had a base of people to spread the word, 3) Camera+, when released, was an amazing and different camera app and the market loved it.

I've been working on this e-book for awhile, ever since I talked about iOS animation design & development at a local CocoaConf. As one of those odd designer-developer hybrids, I've never really seen a decent guide that combined animation design theory and live code examples, so I wanted to put one together and get it out there.

Check out some sample pages here and I'd love to hear what HN thinks: http://designthencode.com/motion-sample-1.html

My wife worked at IBM for many years and every year, like clockwork, right before the quarter was up, they'd shut down the power to entire IBM sites for a day or two to save money. Everyone would be told to work from home. That's how important cost-cutting is to IBM.