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Thanks a bunch, buddy :)

Thanks for the reply. Sure my twitter is @modernprogrammr - would love to check out his stuff.

Thanks! Do you have a link to your games by any chance?

Purchased! This is just what I was looking for Hipster CEO

Not drinking kool aid - just have a realistic understanding of how business works.

No, run by people - as your facetious comment sarcastically points out.

However, it is entirely possible for these people to get another job.

It's business - you play to the limit of the rules and if you break them then you try your best not to get caught.

MS didn't crush people - it crushed companies. There's a big difference.

I'd also question what damage he did as MS CEO that can in any way take away from the good his foundation is doing/has done.

Handles it like a champ IMHO.

I visited the website twice and still don't really have an idea what this app does.

Localised Pinterest is my current guess? :\

Yup, thats the one.

I'm busy building the sequel right now - hope to have it ready for December this year.

I built my first game (and native iOS app) in 6 weeks - its Sim City for tech startups and its called Hipster CEO :)

I used to agree but I recently read this old quote from PG which nails it I think:

"A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup."

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

Sweet Jesus that was an annoying promo video.

I helped build Rubberstamp (www.rubberstamp.io) which solves this problem.

Its a super simple purchase order management system that works on mobile and directly though emails for approvers.

We'll be building support for recurring orders, delivering checking very soon.

If you're interested in a trial then just let me know!

I think a serious contribution to Founder Depression is that we're always expected to be on. If anyone asks about your startup you're supposed to be super-motivated, encouraged to give off the appearance that everythings a-ok in case word might get out to investors/competitors/etc.

The reality is that some weeks/months really, really suck. If more of us recognised and accepted this fact then I think it'd go a long way to combatting FD.

Maybe it's another experiment to see what type of stuff we post after an outage.

Not exactly the best name for changing the programmer stereotype...

Betalist.

Exactly. I mean, it would take a fairly skeptical person to think that you submitted someone else's code but maybe they just weren't willing to take the risk.

Either way, I think you've nothing to lose by sending that mail/picking up the phone. Regardless of the doubts the interviewer may have in you post-interview they'll know that everybody is prone to a bad day every once in a while.

Dude, if you're that passionate about that job you just described then I'd suggest calling the company up and explaining what happened. Having interviewed many people I'd certainly be open to giving someone a second chance if they explained a situation like yours to me.

Perhaps I misunderstood you but not all consumables are bad IAPs.

The legitimate use case is that it creates a viable business model:

http://themodernprogrammer.com/post/app-store-dollars-dont-g...

It's not cut and dry like that.

Nopes. Crappy games would just cost more.

See: every generation of video gaming.

Sorry, should have specified - it looks to me that Angular mobile provides a similar theme out of the box plus the awesome Angular stuff on top of it.

What I'm saying is this is like a plain donut whereas a donut with sweet, sweet toppings already exists :D

Looks nice but I'm just wondering what this offers above Mobile Angular.js?

Interesting approach. I don't think I'll go down this route but thanks for the effort anyhow :)

Trying to build an interesting segment to the new tech startup sim game I'm building: www.hipsterceo.com

Yeah, I checked that out previously but you're right - no valuations.

Thanks anyhow.