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Now the app developers have to see if they can have that as the default privacy setting for anyone who uses the app and this should be truly private info after that.

This app is interesting however, users are signing up for this with the idea that no one among their friends get to know about it. Unfortunately, facebook enthusiastically shows everyone using various apps.

Not sure if facebook has a privacy setting to prevent others from knowing the apps I use but if they do then the developers of this app should inform this to their users.

If facebook does not have a way for me to hide from my friends the apps I use then IMO, facebook should have this option.

And I thought Balsamiq would never have a tough competitor! Great work, love it.

Hi, thanks for listing JustUnfollow. I made this about 2 years ago and we're 2 months away from hitting a million users... Last week we launched a native Android app and we'll soon be launching an iPhone app as well :)

I can think of quite a few use cases for use in our products. I especially like the idea of broadcasting a downtime if we intend to go down for maintenance. Also, apart from sending emails to our users about new feature launches, we can use this to make sure our users don't miss out on the new features.

Wish you luck, this seems useful to any website that wants to keep its users informed!

Cool stuff. What I usually do is click the link and then set the privacy level to "only me" so that no one knows what I'm reading.

I'm from India and it made more financial sense for us to go back. But, a lot of friends from my batch are still there post the 6 months (many from the north). It's definitely cheaper than North America and if you can find the right developers, nothing like it. And unlike us (30+ hour travel back to India) it's more convenient for you to visit your country and be back in Chile.

It will take a while to realize knowing English would not really help you much. IMO, it's important that you know some basic Spanish. But this isn't a deal breaker as I did not know any Spanish but eventually figured out enough words to get the job done.

Be ready to see people making out in the open, on the streets, in the metro stations and inside the metro standing beside you.

The food is generally bland, deal with it.

We were part of the first batch of Start-Up Chile. It's a good program if you are really at the very first stage of your product. We had just a basic prototype of GrabInbox and hence it was the right decision for us. The program gave us money to survive the 6 months and we also had enough to spend on building the product.

Can you get by easily with the maximum salary you can take? As far as living by on the maximum salary is concerned, it can be a little difficult but it's possible. You might have to try and cook your own food at least a few times a week or may be eat at a cheaper place. The accommodation allowance is different from the salary and is more than enough.

Are the required events very time consuming? The process for reimbursement can be a bit time consuming but if you start saving bills for your expenses and not scamper at the last minute when its time to reimburse, it would help. As I find out now, saving receipts right from the beginning is a habit I would suggest every entrepreneur to inculcate because once you start running your business it's important to stay organized. It helps in filing your tax returns.

Is it easy to find local talents with good English skills? Local talent with good english skills is hard to find.

What's the average salary for an intermediate web developer? Won't be able to answer that as we did not hire any local developer.

Thanks! Looking into that thread, helpful. mini-industry indeed. I just don't get the fact how a company like Google is finding it difficult to allow Indian developers to see their apps in the Android Market. More so because Google has offices in India!

We http://grabinbox.com have launched and are part of the 26 startups mentioned in there.

I guess I wasn't clear on my question. I do know how to track events but I need to know if that's the right thing to do. Advertisers usually look at 'pageviews' while advertising but single page ajax apps do not garner enough page views even with high traffic for the simple reason that once the user logs in the page is never refreshed.

So, is it ok to increment the page view count each time a new page is loaded via ajax?

I've heard of it but never really used it. Before I use any particular analytics tool, I want to know if it's right to track ajax page refreshes as a new page view. Any ideas on that?

combine that with the fact that the High Replication Datastore will most probably never see a downtime and you tend to be ok with the cost (of course as a app engine customer, you would always want lower costs, but the current write cost is not a deal breaker).

The only problem here is that "delete" is considered a write and when you want to delete data you just cannot accept the fact that you need to pay for something you do not want to keep. I think GAE should definitely look into this aspect and try to get some cheaper alternatives for data deletion.

I've been developing on appengine for over 2 years now. Thanks to the platform, I've never been worried about traffic spikes. Whether you get profiled on TC or a celebrity tweets about your app, you know it will run. Given, you would not learn admin skills, but you'll learn a lot of other things.

I learnt how denormalized data in the datastore can help speed things up for your app. I learnt sharding thanks to app engine. The pricing has made me make use of memcache more often and trying to avoid hitting the datastore. When I look at it, I feel I've brought in more discipline in my code because of app engine. I am now in the habit of building APIs that would run instantly. If a http call takes too long, my instinct is to make it run as a background task and then return the result.

I've learnt all of these because I've been on App Engine. I can see a significant improvement in what I'm building now. The apps we build now, all our users say it's "fast and responsive". A lot of that credit goes to App Engine and the things it has taught me.

Nothing you learn in life is really a waste of time.

AWS has been around for longer. Appengine just moved out of beta. There are a lot of "serious" applications on app engine. Many applications have their infra distributed over multiple providers. A combination of AWS and App engine will be more heard of in the future. Tweetdeck has (had?) a backend implementation on App engine - http://goo.gl/38nSU

The point is, terming an infra stack as great as App engine as made for non serious applications is a gross misunderstanding of what the app engine is capable of. You should first give it a try, develop an app and then make a statement.

Good and bad developers exist anywhere and everywhere. May be because India is a country of a billion people, even small percentages lead to a big number. So your chances of finding not so good developers are higher in India.

But that does not mean that India is all about cheap software development with code that never works. Outsource your projects to the right people and you get things right. There are pretty good companies such as Slideshare, Zoho and most of the big guns like Google, Microsoft, Adobe with offices in India where great products have been developed by Indian developers.

All I say is, give developers in India the kind of money they really deserve (which is still significantly less than what their American counterparts command; it's more to do with the lower cost of living than anything else really) and you would get software that matches international standards.

Thanks! I'll definitely keep that in mind :)

Nice. But, I've always felt, if there was no time and money restriction, work would move at a lot slower pace than otherwise. Which would in turn impact our ability to launch. Has that happened to you?

wow! I hope to be able to meet you in person some day :)

I'm from India, we make money in our currency which is Rupees (INR). I do know that 'making money' = profit and that is exactly what we are making. I'm not selling BMW cars. I write code which takes my time but needs no money, host it on GAE and AWS, which is not so expensive and so make a very good profit.

Yes, you are misunderstanding what I said by pushing those figures.

I guess the last para sums it up well. The degree of financial freedom would be something I would look forward to in life.

I did not put any numbers anywhere about our profits. We have a freemium model. Ads are just a small part of the revenues we make.

I had read your post when it was published. Very cool, has a social touch and inspiring!

I started http://www.justunfollow.com as a way to learn Google Appengine. Sent a tip to TechCrunch, @arrington seemed to like it and profiled it. It started making profits but I did not quit. I finally had to quit after about 1 year of this product going live because it started making me more money in 2 months than my day job was paying me for an entire year!

I quit my job around 9 months ago. Finding too much of time on hand I subsequently started work on a new app, got my friend to join me and we got into Start-up Chile. It's been a great journey but I'm so glad that I did not quit the moment we were profitable. It has taught me the most important thing you need to learn while starting up, being efficient.

I always suggest everyone who has a product to not quit until it is virtually impossible to keep up with a day job. You then become a time management champ and know how to do more with less :)

could not access qminder but campalyst looks good...!

yeah, a side project makes more sense. I guess, if we look at them that way they can also be called as weekend projects since it's not what someone developed as a full time activity.

I sure will someday, but I just hope it turns out to be as well made as the other apps :)

no they are not.

As far as I know it's needed (we had submitted it). Don't leave out anything in the application form, the last thing you need is getting rejected because your application was incomplete.

All the best and the start-up chile folks are super helpful. You can always direct your questions to http://twitter.com/startupchile and expect a response.