Pretty sure VRC uses curl under the hood to perform all requests. It’s great being able to use plain text within Vim to formulate and reuse API calls right next to your code.
GitHub isn't a 'single point of failure' due to the distributed nature of Git. I.e. it's pretty easy to push your codebase to another server anytime you want.
If this service backs up submodules for 3rd party dependancies this might be useful but as it stands the landing page doesn't give any further information. I don't feel incentivised to login with GitHub OAuth.
Sorry to hear about this, but don't let it dishearten you from making games and open sourcing them.
Someone stealing your code doesn't take away from the fact that you accomplished your goal of making a complete game. And from what you just wrote - that was your intention.
Regarding your blog title, I'd add 'timing' as well as 'marketing'. Titles of both submissions were remarkably similar ("Flappy Bird in HTML5" vs "Flappy Birdy html5 clone created using the Phaser framework"). Maybe the timing of your submission was off.
Also you can now state that you're the original creator of all the HTML5 Flappy Bird clones that have been popping up recently.
I was ecstatic to see the other forks but my smile does a 360 everytime I see him getting the credit for it. But I'm happy to report that it didn't discourage me to open source the things I create: https://github.com/marksteve/val :)
Yeah. My timing was off. But I think I now have a better idea on when and how to post things here :P
I can't claim that :P There are some good clones that were genuinely created from scratch like mine.
I used to be in that situation which is why I wrote Bee (http://neat.io/bee/). Its a Mac client for JIRA (amongst other services) and makes JIRA much more pleasant to use.
JIRA's UI tends to be geared towards project management types. I wanted to bring the focus back onto the engineer.
However, Jira fundamentally is about managers tracking work, and not about workers actually getting stuff done. There's no way I can track all my tasks in Jira even if I have a nicer GUI for it.
I'm actually part of the way towards writing a program to sync tasks between Asana and Jira using their APIs. I'm hoping that that'll let me continue working in Asana while it handles Jira (which I've always found incomprehensible) for me.
Well you'd be surprised. I've also tried to solve this problem.
You can create your own lists inside of Bee which filter issues based on your own rules (http://neat.io/bee/docs/smart-lists.html). It's helpful because you just define the rules one-time and then flick to it whenever you need to.
Bee also has a menubar helper which tracks your short-term tasks and queues up your next issue so you always know what you're working on (http://neat.io/bee/docs/the-short-list.html).
Also you can add your own Notes list which is just a series of text files (easily synced via Dropbox) if you want to track your own local tasks.
I'm constantly iterating based on user feedback so if you have time, please let me know how it works out for you :)
I just wanted to chime in and say I like your approach of just focusing on pull requests. There's another app I know of that just focuses on creating issues (http://issuepostapp.com).
My launch didn't go 'well' to the standards that I constantly see on HN. I got < 10 users and a lot of those were existing beta testers.
Now I'm 2 months in and I have been getting a fairly consistent number of new users each day, however its dropped in the past couple of weeks (I'm blaming the holiday season).
Here's what I've learnt so far:
- SEO is very important for discovery
- Keep your product evolving to fit the needs of your current users
- Keep current users happy
- Be ultra responsive to support enquiries - this is key to keeping happy users
- Adjust your pricing model based on feedback
- Get your site linked to on other sites even if seemingly unrelated - I get a bit of traffic from a design site that has my site in a list of 'beautiful, flat landing pages'
It would have been nice to get a whole slew of users on day 1 but realistically this doesn't happen unless you have an existing captive audience. It does dampen the expected meritocracy that comes with developing your own product.
One of the most constructive replies. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get into SEO? Did you get professional help or try to tackle it yourself?
PS: Kudos on the product, you just got yourself a future customer with the Atlassian integration :)
I initially launched the site promoting my app as just 1 page. In hindsight knowing what I know now that was ludicrous. (You need more pages, more content and more targeted content.) I went into it here: http://neat.io/blog/the-bee-website-redesign.html
I still don't really understand SEO and my site is still not ranking for the keywords I want but I'm trying to learn.
I did get one-off semi-professional help from experts that emailed me as a result of my blog post blowing up on HN but end of the day, you're going to have to dig deep and learn about it yourself. This is frustrating because looking for quality content about SEO is ridiculous. Everything out there is so dubious and I don't know what is credible and what isn't.
Today for instance I just got a tip about content placement and how it can be effective for SEO. I Googled around and found this list: http://www.mywebschool.com/blog/seo/seo-tips-for-keyword-pla... so I'm going to try and apply it later tonight. No idea if it will work or if its a waste of time or if the tips in there are good...
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Oh and another thing I forgot to mention is that a lot of people asked me to make a video showcasing the app because they wanted to watch something rather than scroll through a list of features. This was a good idea, no idea if its helped with people downloading the trial but I get good feedback on the video and at least it educates people about what my app does. Video blog post here: http://neat.io/blog/creating-the-bee-video.html
I work on contract iOS jobs and I need to track my time to invoice my clients. It sucks using my web browser to start and stop the timer. I also wanted quick access to all my tasks, past and present without going through a slower web UI.
Also the app comes in handy when I need to jot down a quick note or remember something.
Maybe I should incorporate some of that ^ on the site.
Forgo the maybe and do it. We use a redmine clone at my current employer and opening a tab or a billion is still rough. I've always preferred clients. If I could live in visual studio like I wanted when I started, there's a decent open source one for that. Also tortoisemine helps with respect to linking checkins but I'm still on a text file keeping track until I get around to putting stuff in. Its never exciting or useful.
There does seem to be a saturation of apps on my platform: windows phone to where just another makes no sense. Mostly devs make it for themselves and since we're all unique, these things are like snowflakes too.
That is what I do as well, I'm considering purchasing Bee based on my trial of it this morning. My only concern is in keeping enough clients around that I need to use it! But actually, for me, this is the kind of native client I didn't know I needed (I spend way too much time in Jira...) and that it hooks into GitHub as well is a big selling point, since that's pretty much how I divide my personal work from client work. The interface is slick, although there seems to be some stuttering when I move the window. I'll probably buy it when I get my next paycheck. And maybe if I write a blog post about my own app that has sold 12 copies, I'll sell a few more! ;)
Thanks, there shouldn't be a price difference between the FastSpring store and the MAS. The FastSpring store is for people who want to make volume purchases. Or people who want a faster update track rather than waiting for the MAS approval times.
I love that visual character/line/block selection works. It's the first thing I test in any kind of Vim emulation.