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ryanbertrandon Ask HN: Apple 2FA mandated how to work with multiple accounts?

https://developer.apple.com/support/account/authentication/

After reading this, it seems like one device can be used for multiple developer accounts.

I was worried when I started seeing “iCloud” because of course none of us use our personal iCloud accounts for dev work. However, it looks like you can link multiple dev accounts to your personal iCloud account to prevent having to sign in/out of the accounts on the device.

ryanbertrandon Show HN: A rap song about the struggles of finishing a side project

I really love Hell.js and Mess.css

So on point.

ryanbertrandon Top Reasons to Choose iOS Platform for Startups

Con: Apple has the final say for your app being released.

ryanbertrandon React Native 0.59.0-rc.0 released

Can you expand on the APIs that broke for you?

ryanbertrandon I stopped using Intercom

We tried using Intercom as a “all in one” tool for support, leads, CRM, and it just wasn’t good enough.

We ended up getting Pipedrive for the CRM. Then we hooked up the new Pipedrive integration which is one click to generate a new user, and deal after they show interest with our bot or with us.

For support, we love it and so do our customers. I know there are a lot of chat solutions but it feels the best to me. The bonus is it is integrated with our Help Center (also Intercom) so it is very easy to send embedded articles right in the chat. Our customers love this :)

We are a small team and we were able to reduce the amount of support phone calls (they wanted a phone call to ask the simplist things) by answering quickly on live chat. This allowed us to be able to serve multiple customers at once in a async fashion.

ryanbertrandon TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing officers to stay home

I wonder if Uber/Lyft has seen a jump in driver sign ups since the shutdown. Not sure how fast their onboarding is...but probably faster than trying to find a new job / temp job?

ryanbertrandon Show HN: A tool that helps you focus on startup metrics that matter

10 day trials are rare, what made you choose 10 days?

Looks cool, will check it out.

ryanbertrandon Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game

We launched a crime based RPG game on iOS back in the day that had a leaderboard which tracked in game net worth (cash, investments, etc).

I still remember the day we woke up to multiple emails and lawsuit threats from our top player whose net worth suddenly went negative on the leaderboard.

Our players were very competitive and loved pushing the boundaries by trying to find vulnerabilities, shortcuts, etc so we assumed the worst and thought we had a bug in our system! Turned out to be our JSON parsing library was using integerValue on our NSNumber instances causing the ints to overflow. It was a tough week waiting for Apple to review the app while our players lost faith in us.

Lesson learned :)

(Luckily the player and our community was understanding and stay around)

ryanbertrandon Tell HN: We are now closer to the Y2K38 problem than the Y2K problem

We launched a crime based RPG game on iOS back in the day that had a leaderboard which tracked in game net worth (cash, investments, etc).

I still remember the day we woke up to multiple emails and lawsuit threats from our top player whose net worth suddenly went negative on the leaderboard.

Lesson learned :)

(Luckily the player and our community were understanding and stay around)

ryanbertrandon Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link

Cool project!

How was your experience ejecting Expo? Are hot updates fully disabled once you eject? (i.e. each update is submitted via AppStore.)

ryanbertrandon Chariot is shutting down

I had an encounter with one of their drivers tailgating me for ~1 mile until they finally sped past me and cut me off. I was going above the speed limit. Not sure if there were customers in the car, but I would hope not.

ryanbertrandon Chariot is shutting down

They were acquired by Ford. Doesn’t seem like a failure...even if shitting down after 2 years.

ryanbertrandon iOS Menu

I don’t think they were expecting the traffic boost. Videos don’t play for me making it hard to visualize. Anyone else?

ryanbertrandon Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

Worth noting they will continue processing payments through iTunes for customers who did their subscription through iTunes. Apple will not just go to $0 from Netflix overnight.

ryanbertrandon DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing

It uses React Native Web which allows to share more UI code. Pretty cool!

ryanbertrandon Robinhood launches 3% checking account

There was a mention of a partnership with Sutton bank based in Ohio. I’m sure that’s where the FDIC insurance comes from.

ryanbertrandon Show HN: Moment – Customer support by livechat, email, videocall, session rewind

Okay, I opened on desktop and the pricing UI makes more sense now. I was under the impression it was $99 for everything (chat, marketing and CRM).

We use Intercom/Drift here and love their bots for qualifying leads. Do you guys have something similar?

ryanbertrandon Show HN: Moment – Customer support by livechat, email, videocall, session rewind

$25/mo for 2 seats. $99/mo for 50 seats.

Obviously way cheaper than other CRMs and support/marketing services. It’s almost the “too good to be true” pricing which would make me walk away.

Is it a mistake on the website?

ryanbertrandon Netflix pays $100m for “Friends”

The $100M was just for 2019 rights. Apparently they paid $30M the year before. Big jump.

ryanbertrandon Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0

Does this allow hot code-push updates like React Native does?

ryanbertrandon Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0

I’m building my first RN app right now and I feel like the navigation animations are native (modals, etc).

(I’ve been doing native iOS since 2009)

ryanbertrandon Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air

I do enjoy having the TouchID but I can live without everything else on my 2017 MBP.

ryanbertrandon Show HN: Glorious Demo – Create animations for your code samples

This is super nice to look at. I think it’s acceptable for 1 line of code but watching 5 lines being typed out felt a bit extreme.

ryanbertrandon How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team

It is in the 'Do you have any advice for founders trying to price their product?' section as a hyperlink.

ryanbertrandon EBay Sues Amazon, Alleging Sellers Were Illegally Poached

Yeah, I was trying to understand this too. Seems like the Amazon employees broke the EBay terms of service and general business ethics but which law?

ryanbertrandon Brex Has Amassed A Valuation Of $1.1B In Under Two Years

I really like our Brex experience so far.

Being able to see who in the company made a charge and set limits per user is great. BofA did not have this functionality when I asked our banker ~6mo ago (for debit cards). Getting a virtual card right when you sign up was a great UX.

I’d love a mobile app though.

ryanbertrandon Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

I don’t mind it. What are the biggest issues?

ryanbertrandon Musk’s Tesla Fun Does Not Amuse SEC

It’s very hard to read these articles when dynamic ads are injected and then removed 30 secs later causing me to lose my place. Terrible.

ryanbertrandon Ask HN: Is it possible for a mobile app store, not to report in-app purchases?

On iOS you can verify receipts with your server. This will also prevent jail broken devices from faking purchases.

ryanbertrandon Show HN: $1 buys you a startup idea

Looks like you compiled in dev mode. You only want one JS file, not 200+.

Try: lein cljsbuild once min