I submitted two Show HN posts with link to my Hacker News iOS Client app, the first post didn't got a single point, I was so disappointed that I just deleted it.
The second post got 4 points and brings about 120 page views to my app's website, and about 10 sales for the next 24 hours. After that only about 1~2 download per day.
It's an app for reading Hacker News on iOS, 100 percent HN target market, so maybe my app just sucks? I really don't know.
I really want to get feedbacks on this, what kind of Hacker News iOS App do you want? or you just use Safari?
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Minor nits:
* I'd like a non-indented view of the comments - don't like half the screen being "wasted".
* "Settings" doesn't go to any settings.
* No option to send to Buffer? Bah.
* If you turn off "SMS" from the Share UIView, it's still on the action pane the first time you bring it up after that. But then it disappears.
There's a few other weird UI happenings. I'll send them via email later.
I think if you care about the GTD stuff itself too much, you are no getting things done at all.
Maybe you just doing fake work, getting some fake motivation from a list of GTD advice which you will lose while you continue reading HN, twitter, etc.
In my opinion, getting things done is just 3 simple step.
This is very true. These GTD methods and everything is to "getting things done" what mac Donalds is to eating: it's quick; it's cheap but it's also a lot of crap.
This read is part of the big family of "self-motivation" seminars and "find your inner strength "bullshit. I hate to break it this way but drive is something you cultivate yourself, no generic "method" will do it for you. The irony is in those lists and methodology is most of the time people are motivated to do the setup for it: buy the books, the special furnitures, plan on organizing their time and in the end, when it's supposed to start the method falls flat and you realize that you aren't changed. Slacking is still a big part of your life, losing time on the internet, looking at Facebook etc... still eats a large portion of the time you get everyday.
Oh and please can we cut down on the term "hacker" ? I know it's called hacker news but it's a bit presumptuous to name it that way for almost everything that is posted here.
And many people make money from it.
They blog about it, write book about it, and there are even some GTD group, meetup etc...
They profit!
But the whole thing is a paradox.
The things those people are getting done is write/talk/think about the "getting things done" stuff.
But if they do, they are no getting things done.
>Oh and please can we cut down on the term "hacker" ? I know it's called hacker news but it's a bit presumptuous to name it that way for almost everything that is posted here.
Indeed. It cheapens the term. (And it's already diluted enough.)
