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Big fan of what Sara's building with Jewelbots, looking forward to what's next.

Not everybody speaks the same language. Communication shouldn’t be taken lightly.

"Just because something was your idea doesn’t mean the CEO should be you."

Great chat about a technology existing as a core belief of the company from the get go. Interesting to see how fast they were able to grow, and still stay grounded.

Thomas Knoll, Founder of Primeloop, talks about why he’s baked the “no internal email” rule into his company. He talks about the insane benefits to workflow, culture, and sanity, as well as how any company can start to implement the same processes, regardless of size.

Awesome - we weren't aware of the .net package but I'll definitely check it out.

Personally, I saw it as an interesting study in what palettes people are choosing to represent the purpose of their applications. I wouldn't change your palette based on this, in fact, differentiation could help you to stand out.

"I think one of the worst things for an artist is when they have an editor." - loved that quote

We implemented this on our Brandisty blog - worked great!

Thanks Jenn! Really glad you enjoyed it.

It was amazing the similarities once I started researching the background of Intellectual Property rights in China

We've been kicking around similar ideas for our startup - this helps to jumpstart our motivation again.

The content is all contained in the base download so there is no wait for the user.

To serve from our own server there would be a delay - Apple also has a serve that lets you deliver assets from their server, still a delay, but much faster infrastructure than we could afford.

That's a great idea regarding the subscription - we didn't think we'd be eligible because we're a game / book hybrid but I'll look into it again.

Regarding the "Parents can't resist" - I ment that in regards to School Apparel as that was their description. 97% of the parents that download our app can resist ;)

haha! I love it.

You're dead on - our "whales" were 3% of our users.

We never released 10 books w/ out the Buy All option so you're assumption is correct - we have no data on this. You could be correct in that it was solely content as a gating factor, had we tested incrementally we would have firmer data in this area.

Awesome! Can't wait for Hookfeed to launch btw!

Thanks! Fixed now

Agreed - I wish we had the foresight at the time to have launched with it. Live and learn.

What languages are you looking for? We have a Mandarin version and we're working on a French and Portuguese version.

We actually released a version of the app that was $2.99 upfront with no in-app purchases to test which model worked better for us.

The $2.99 version netted us less than $20 in the lifetime of the application. It never was ranked anywhere in the app store and thus was virtually DOA.

I agree it would be great to charge upfront - We didn't have a budget to market these applications to them to show them the value before they reach the store which would be essential in that business model. The freemium model was our only way to leverage the rankings in the store and give parents the ability to see the value in the application before buying.

It's so true. Tinker. Tinker. Tinker. Boom!

Some really good reminders in here - thanks for posting

I can't say you're wrong here. At the time, I lived for the long hours. It felt fulfilling and purposeful. It's hard to realize that everyone else around you might not feel the same way.

I think growth and the lack of defined future benefit also played a huge part here. Both are critical to job satisfaction.

The Gizmodo posting of this article updated it as fake:

http://gizmodo.com/5164841/robot-programmed-to-love-traps-wo...

Here's an article on the actual robot:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/05/21/news/robots-will...

Really comprehensive guide here - Thanks for posting

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Yep - at least they were so kind ;)

Looks like there's just a couple images linked from our img sub domain - everything else was copied and pasted.

Seriously - we're getting all of their traffic showing up in our analytics account - that's probably the most annoying part.

You're absolutely right - that was just my own ignorance.

Thanks for the tip ;) I'm looking into it now