I think we're well past the days of Microsoft being the evil empire[1] and I'm happy someone else is building an alternative to Android and iOS.

Whether that alternative will actually take off is highly questionable but more choice is better for consumers and hackers alike.

[1] For one thing Steve Ballmer seems too incompetent to make an effective villain.

It has nothing to do with being an evil empire and all to do with being evil. It doesn't matter if they're ruling or dying. Just because they're not alone in sucking badly doesn't mean they don't, and if we need Microsoft of all companies to provide an "alternative", that's an argument against the current situation; not for Microsoft.

That said, the word "hacker" has so many definitions it's completely useless anyway, it describes nothing. So don't take this as an agreement with the post you replied to, I would have said "people with dignity" instead of "hacker" haha.

In my books, lack of vowels is the real deal breaker.

Real hackers wouldn't ever limit their minds the way your comment shows you do.

That said I'll be grabbing this and giving it a test run.

Do people think apps succeed automatically? Dump thousands into ppi, send out 100 emails to mobile blogs and hope for a review, buy lots of ads targeted very specifically.

Ebay. It's a bit harder to find stuff when you have to go through several subcategories to actually view items, but highly usable.

>data scrapper

What's wrong with the data? Why are you getting rid of it?

Also: your server is struggling with the small amount of traffic you're getting..

His comment was point out that you wrote "Data Scrapper", which is something that scraps data - that is, throws away - rather than something that scrapes data, which is something that collects it (as you know).

His comment does contain information, but is not a clear explanation.

Hope that helps.

Sorry, I didn't notice the typo. It's fixed now.

Newsletters are 100% spam no matter how you look at it.

Do they provide any value? No. They exist solely to make money or get traffic.

You're doing it wrong.

I'm a Forrst member and I've followed your little site from the beginning. You have a neat concept but your promotion strategy is pretty bad. I'd also not try to make a profit from day one.

Belbn, thanks for the feedback. What do you think would be a good promotion strategy?

I was under the impression you aren't able to downvote on this site. In the same way this site is Reddit except the fact you can't react negatively to anything (downvote), we now need to do the same for comments.

You either upvote or you do nothing. You either comment positively or you don't comment. Excellent job patio.

You can downvote comments, assuming you have enough karma (100? 500? something like that). You can't downvote stories themselves, however.

I believe the threshold is 400 karma

I keep hearing 500. It used to be 200.

As someone with 408 karma, I suspect 500 is probably more accurate.

Thank you. Have an upvote. It was 200 for me, so I was not sure.