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amichail

18,811karma·7,884submissions·February 20, 2007
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I'm an indie game developer.

My previous games include DropZap and DropZap 2 for iOS.

My latest game is DropZap World. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1072858930

https://bsky.app/profile/dropzapworld.bsky.social https://x.com/DropZapWorld https://www.threads.net/@dropzapworld

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Another idea would be to have a prediction market about all sorts of short-term events (e.g., in the next day/week) in Justin's life.
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Another idea applicable if this sort of thing becomes more popular would be to allow viewers to click on people in the live video feed who are broadcasting their lives to switch to those people's live…
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For example, when Justin meets someone for the first time, viewers might get the opportunity to show flashbacks from Justin's life to give a first impression.
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I think that the most important thing to learn from del.icio.us is that a web 2.0 service should be useful even if no one else is using it (or perhaps other people are using it but designating all the…
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Besides web 2.0, we can see some creativity in the games industry as well. For a more recent example of creativity in games, see: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1299927595688205543 Maybe one…
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Try comparing its traffic with reddit on alexa.
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I think it's possible to succeed in one of two ways: (1) come up with a radically new idea (e.g., human computation) (2) apply existing ideas to a specific domain in a novel way You will probably have…
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Livingston: Can you tell me about any of the challenges you've faced? Ross: One thing is just time. Whenever I'm doing something now, I feel like I should be doing something else instead. If I got m…
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What about frequent visits to Boston from Canada, say once a week? Would that work?
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To get things started, here's one that I like: A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia http://www2007.org/program/paper.php?id=692 http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~luca/papers/07/wikiwww2007.p…
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No. I just think that a lot of people would think twice about voting if that were to be considered in their YC application.
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The way people vote on submissions and comments can be revealing as well, but you won't check those right?
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"Well, of course you sometimes have to exaggerate. If you think there are three places where you can get a lease, then you just say you have a lease so you can move to the next step. You've got to s…
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Why does it matter if eclipse is huge? Your productivity is what's important. And for Java, eclipse results in a dramatic improvement in productivity.
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But is it better than Eclipse in terms of sophisticated language support? For a dynamic language, maybe that's not so important. But for a verbose statically typed language such as Java, it's critica…
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