Hey HN.
Co-Founder here. We'd love to get your thoughts on our Code Store. We're positioning this as something that Devs / App Entrepreneurs can use as a starting point for their next project. Something to help jumpstart their App launch. We've got another 4 apps set to go live in the next few weeks. A Fitness app, Instagram style photos app, Weather app, e-Commerce app etc.
We'd also love to know your thoughts on what you think we should build next.
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I agree with the above comment. I think you should allow your users to submit their startup via email or a form on the site. Quite a few people including myself would be reluctant to provide twitter access with the permissions above.
Another small note, there's a typo on the submit page above the button "Read to show your..." I think you meant *Ready ?
Thank you for pointing out the typo. Unlike Facebook, it is not possible to grant individual permission to Twitter App in application console. There are very few options available to manage Twitter App permissions. But we don't post or follow anyone on behalf of users without their prior consent. Many other websites like Product Hunt have the similar Twitter permissions list (https://www.producthunt.com/auth/twitter).
If you still do not feel comfortable with Twitter login, you can login via Facebook which has minimal permissions.
At the moment, it is not possible to accept startup submissions via email or a form. It would make things quite hard to manage for us. We want to create an active community and not just merely a startup directory where you list your startup for a backlink and then forget about it. Startup listing is just a part of our future goals at StartupBase. There will be many more things.
Really well edited video. Shenzen seems like a crazy awesome place. One thing I noticed was how he would never haggle on the price. He would always accept straight up say yep ok. Either the prices were really good...or being an American he's not so used to the idea of having to haggle the price (or maybe he felt order size was too small to warrant a haggle). However when in Asia always and negotiate, otherwise you're just increasing the prices for the rest of the expats :)
No- under these circumstances you don't haggle. They mostly sell quantity to people they know, they are stopping real business to be polite and do him a favor. Likewise, if you buy 5 switches in SEG, it's going to be like $2 and it's just not the time for it. Source- Shenzhen local.
yes exactly - if you're going to Shenzhen figure out which buildings will sell you 10 and which are really there to sell you 10,000, the market prices to you are already cheaper than what you're used to for most stuff anyway.
If you do need 10,000 you're probably buying reels anyway, there are places that will sell you those, and if you really are manufacturing get a local sourcing agent to help you they will know who sells reliable stuff at a good price
He has commented on that saying that it isn't very common in the electronics markets, particularly for one-offs or low volume. Apparently you can only really start haggling once you're buying 100+ of something.
This isn't your normal Asian market. Most of us are happy that we can even make our clumsy attempts at buying sample quantities without speaking the language nor having a local business. There's little evidence of a "foreigner tax" in effect, if anything you're getting better prices and service because you're a curiosity.
When purchasing electronics haggling isn't really very common. The haggling comes when you buy in bulk. But you're right, if you buy things on a market in Asia; haggle!
I agree. Love the layout and the fact I can get more of an idea what the thread is about, but the constant auto refreshing, as well as the refreshing while scrolling threw me a little bit.
I tend to skim a bunch of articles, and make a mental note of the position of interesting ones to go back to later, but when I scroll up, everything is in a different location, breaking the mental map that I had built.
Other than that, I think it is a great alternative. Good work.
Agree with this, the first version had no autorefresh. But this is quite annoying if you have this open in a tab. You get old news, and that kind of is against the purpose of the app.
I guess there are two types of users - constant checkers might like auto-refresh but if you check less frequently then you want to scroll deep and for us, auto-refresh is a usability nightmare.
I'd suggest something like a toast that says "4 new stories" and you click it to refresh. It means you don't get confused by stale data but the page stays under the users control. It also allows you to flag/highlight/animate the new stories so a user can understand the diff from when they last looked at the page.
This type of feature is sometimes implemented as a huge green banner stickied to the bottom of the view but that I find that too obtrusive and stress inducing - I end up clicking on them to get them out of the way even when I don't want to see the new stories so it actually makes the experience worse. I prefer a more subtle indicator in the top-right similar to how notifications appear in some apps but it shouldn't feel like an error/warning or something that requires immediate attention.
It is massively annoying and a huge UX misstep. It just happened to me: I hovered over a story I was interested and could feel the muscles in my hand tensing as I was about to click when suddenly the stories refreshed and I lost the one I was interested in. It made me somewhat irrationally angry, like something was stolen from me.
Do not automatically change content that requires people to read
We were 'Hunted' for our App (Hucnhapp) on PH this weekend. We were also hunted a few months ago for our iOS Framework (Redbeard). Both times it was by an influencer that was able to get it featured onto the homepage. Even though we were featured on a weekend both times it still led to thousands of visitors to our site (Approximately 7K in the case of Redbeard). Apparently weekdays leads to an order of magnitude greater.
It really can be a great way to seed early traction. Getting featured can also mean you're picked up by various other blogs and publications as it does lend some credibility with the tech blogs.
If you're looking to reach out to some influencers here's a great site that ranks them: https://www.yvoschaap.com/producthunt/
It's difficult to see the logic that some of these guys have with their "investment" cons. I really wonder the psychology of someone who'd go through a fake investment proposal like this. Do they just want to feel important? I recall a similar incident with someone on HN that I have saved from a few years back:
http://www.shaf.co/post/75399291209/the-fake-vc-eccentric-ge...
I was introduced to the world of fake house offers sometime ago. I could not believe that there are people in this world that literally have no job or nothing and go put offers on expensive houses. After it happened to me twice one of the title workers told me they see it everyday and many of these people do it repeatedly.
The source code is not available as it's a compiled framework however our plan is to soon launch a Marketplace of high quality end to end apps (think clones of Twitter/Instagram/Tinder etc) to give developers a boost when starting their projects. It's also a great way for new developers to learn iOS development.
