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hobonumber1

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hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
To like a place, you can click on the heart. The dropdown is from REMenu (https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/remenu)
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
You're right. I'm only using Creative Commons photos, and I include attribution inside the detail pages.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
I'm using AFNetworking + UIImageView. I believe it does something similar, doesn't it? https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/blob/master/UIK...
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
Good point! Done. :) That's the benefit of being API-Driven.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
I think it's because Apple's search index hasn't been updated yet. Hope that happens soon.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
That would look a lot slicker. I will explore that, thanks!
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
I have thought about it, but allowing for that would require some type of user authentication system which would increase friction when it came to onboarding. If I decide to go with user authentications, then I think adding comments is a no-brainer.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
Thanks! Photoshop. :)
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
Thanks so much for the feedback. This is why I love HN <3

To reply to your thoughts: 1) Good point. I'll consider removing it for the next release, but from my beta testing, some users felt that an onboarding flow would be nicer. I figured making it short and sweet wouldn't hurt.

2) The images are fetched from the server, because the entire app is very API-driven. You're right though - I could architect it so that the images for the initial page are stored locally and I could use some special category-key to fetch the right image.

3) Yeah, I realized that pretty late when Apple had already approved the app. Fix coming in v1.0.1!

Thanks so much for giving it a try. I do plan on monetizing it later. I replied below on how I plan to do that, but the most important thing for me is to make a quality product that people like using. That's what I'm tracking right now.

hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
Weird. I've never encountered that issue (and I've done a lot of beta testing). Could you explain how you got to that page?

Sorry to hear that the app was too sales-y :( What gave off that impression?

hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
Images and content are retrieved algorithmically from various places (Flickr, Wikipedia, etc.). Planning to monetize later by letting people purchase specific categories (like "romantic getaways"). Right now, all categories are free.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world
This is the first iOS app that I've ever made, so I'm pretty proud of it! Would love to hear what you guys think about it.
hobonumber1··on Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in
No need to sound condescending.
hobonumber1··on A Single Div
Yes
hobonumber1··on Pure 0.5.0 – Get Started with Grids
Yep, that was fixed in Pure 0.4.2.
hobonumber1··on Pure 0.5.0 – Get Started with Grids
With the new Get Started page [1], you can change the class names for the grid columns. Here's an example. [2]

[1] http://purecss.io/start/ [2] http://purecss.io/start/?cols=12&prefix=.col-&sm=35.5em&md=4...

hobonumber1··on Pure 0.5.0 – Get Started with Grids
Pure core contributor here. Thanks for the kind words fellas. There are still some rough edges in Pure, especially around extending Menus but that's next on our list of things to tackle.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Our weekend project – PaperSync, notebook scanning as a service
I like the hand-drawn animations on your landing page! Did you guys make those yourselves?
hobonumber1··on Sass 3.3 is released
I'm not a Sass expert here, but does anyone know if anything in this release helps with the problem of not being able to @extend items within media queries?
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Meet Geisha
I love the UI. It's clean and pretty fast.
hobonumber1··on Bootstrap 3.1 released
You should check out Pure's grid system. Works well with Bootstrap. http://purecss.io

Disclaimer: I helped write Pure

hobonumber1··on Tesla’s Groundbreaking UX
I've always found it odd that people would prefer an all-touch panel in a car. I find the knobs and buttons to be useful because they offer tactile feedback. I don't have to look away from the road to turn my volume up or to switch a track. The car is one of the few places where knobs/buttons make sense to me. Maybe I'll be eating my words in a few years.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: We're challenging the iPhone inbox
I like the concept!
hobonumber1··on How GitHub No Longer Works
I'm a big fan of Zach Holman's talks and slides. He's a great speaker on these topics. Looking forward to seeing the video up soon.
hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Getting paid to work on open source full-time?
I work at Yahoo and I'm a front-end engineer on the YUI Team. My job is to work on a number of open source projects such as YUI [1], Pure [2], and Mojito [3].

[1] github.com/yui/yui3 [2] github.com/yui/pure [3] github.com/yahoo/mojito

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: What external displays do you guys use?
Thanks guys! Plenty here to research.
hobonumber1··on Purecss.io – A set of small, responsive CSS modules by Yahoo
We have a pull request to fix this: https://github.com/yui/pure/pull/146
hobonumber1··on Purecss.io – A set of small, responsive CSS modules by Yahoo
Hey guys, I'm one of the developers who wrote Pure. Feel free to direct any questions towards me.
hobonumber1··on Upton: A Web Scraping Framework
Makes sense! Thanks for clarifying that.
hobonumber1··on Upton: A Web Scraping Framework
I use YQL to do web scraping. It lets me do something like this:

`select * from data.html.cssselect where url="www.yahoo.com" and css="#news a"`

Could you elaborate on the benefits of using Upton instead of this?

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