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Just the fact that you are 15, reading hackernews and making apps and NOT spending your time kicking some middle-aged man at Halo is AMAZING. Kudos to you. I wish I was more like you when I was your age.

Does a startup need to be scalable on day one? Would you consider Nintendo a scalable company? They started selling cards in the beginning - which isn't very "scalable" in your mind. Would you consider Samsung a scalable high-tech company? They started as a trading company and diversified into textiles, insurance, securities and retail before also adding electronics.

Or to use a more relevant example 37signals, their humble beginnings was a design studio which then had a string of unsuccessful products such as the usability report before finally hitting it big with BaseCamp.

Lots of retail based businesses are highly scalable through a franchise model. If they can nail down the playbook - they can license that and repeat with new locations.

Care to explain why this is not a startup?

When you get into a new car, do you want all the controls neatly laid out where you know them to be or do you want "originality & creativity". I think most people would find it less stressful and taxing and more comforted if they knew how to navigate it.

Same with a website. I always want to know where the navigation is, how to login, where the call to action is - the basics. The value isn't the website "design" - it's either the product or the content.

so it's a subscription to random tickets?

It's great to read about stuff like this - which I would argue is what most of software business around the world is - not a hyper-growth venture funded social consumer startup not making money, but a "small" "life style" non scalable but steadily growing business and pertinent advice.

RedBull being a drink is much more approachable to everyone. Anyone can aspire to Redbull simply by buying the drink and consuming it in the same way people can aspire to the NorthFace brand by going in an buying and wearing it.

However you can own a GoPro but if you aren't athletic or an outdoors type of person, it's much less useful and that much harder to connect with the brand.

RedBull has wider consumer appeal in that sense and less friction.

That's great, but I would say many young people today, their passions include surfing the net all day, playing video games, listening to free music. Not exactly a great way to build/create value.

Definitely a part time effort. Will let you guys know how it's doing for sure.

Thank you so much. Hearing so many people complain about something so simple to change - it's makes you inclined to just change it though, but I hear you as well.

Anecdotally from people I talk to, Android users tend to be of the techy male (less likely to share quotes and use self expression tools). Also it seems that the Android crowd is used to free a lot. When Rovio charged for the iOS version of Angry Birds but released the Android version for free, I'm sure they looked at the numbers when deciding what made the most sense for them. Also I think the Instagram crowd is still much stronger in iOS. I could be totally wrong.

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I'm not sure if you saw this, but you can search, filter by topics / authors so you don't have to search too much. However presenting that in the main UI is something I hadn't considered.

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Thanks kriven. Actually that's the #1 requested feature. So I definitely plan to add that.

I guess this was a link-bait tongue-in-cheek response to all the Show HN posts that look like I'm 14 and this is my first iphone app etc etc.

Thanks - this is definitely a side project. All of my projects start out as side projects. I'm not as fortunate as some to get funding for ideas.

I'm a huge Instagram user (I created Pinstagram) and I would see a lot of people posting quotes. Quotes is also another passion of mine. I love inspiring quotes and I see a lot of people sharing them so the idea of mashing 2 of my favorite passions - photos (instagram) and quotes seemed really natural.

Future plans include mostly refining the product - adding more quotes, improving the UX, providing more themes (as in app purchase as well as free).

Challenges include: marketing in the app store social media marketing getting users / downloads making sure I build something people want

I think this is enough customer feedback to let me know I should do something about this because it's such a turn off for some people - so consider it done.

No phonegap - this is 100% native

Thank you. Yeah at some point you put in so much that you just want to ship and get it out.

I basically scoured the web and picked the most popular quotes - quite arbitrarily. It wasn't my idea to offend anyone

I'm sure Price Water House Coopers, Ernst & Young, IBM, Deloitte, McKenzie, and Accenture would beg to differ. Or any huge law firm for that matter.

One thing you could do is implement this service for your own area. If you see a need for it, chances are other people need it to.

What makes you qualified to start a space company? We need a bit more on the specifics.

I think it's great you decided to pursue the idea until fruition regardless of how well things weren't going with your friends and team. It's hard to get anything done when the other teammates don't have the passion or ethic to see it through. Kudos to you to launching it.

As to the person who asked what does this solve? What did Instagram solve? What does Twitter solve or Lolcats or Angry Birds or Reddit? Sometimes providing reprieve from a day or entertainment/inspiration is enough.

this is brilliant

How is this different from a LaunchRock in essence? I feel like for many consumers, it's very hard for them to imagine the product w/o seeing/touching/interacting with it no matter how great you pitch or describe it. If someone were to describe to me a blog of funny cats or what's essentially Instagram, I don't think I would have cared much and never really appreciate how much enjoyment I would derive from both just from the pitch or description.

On many occasions I've asked people if they wanted x or would it be cool if it did x and lukewarm would be the best description of their reaction. But seeing the live or real version of that x gave a totally different reaction.

My wife and I did the same thing. When we moved from the midwest to the bay area, we opted for a cross country drive than to traumatize our little dog. I cannot imagine this happening to us.

Pinstagram pixel pusher here, right now we're just focused on building something useful and solving some pain points that we are hearing from our users.

You might want to rethink the design of this site. My first impression was do I really want to do Twitter auth w/ this site? and then the next thing you asked for is email. 2 asks for no rewards. I say, put the carrot before the cart - let me put in my twitter username w/o having to give you anything.

Building a Pinterest for Instagram called, wait for it, Pinstagram http://www.pinstagram.co We launched it on HN less than a month ago and are getting some users so we'll keep working on it.

It depends on what business you are in. If yours is primarily a B2B - design may or may not be that important. If you can solve a pain point - it doesn't matter what the solution looks like. You can see the result of that in any SMB software product - they look horrible.

However if you are trying to do a B2C people have wildly different expectations. They've seen better online products. Consumer internet products these days set a pretty high bar in design and user experience and if you don't have that, it will be difficult to get them to use your product.