Dave Sapien
Creative
mobile apps and games portfolio
SHOW HN2013
131points
80comments
#163of 1,739 in 2013
Top 10%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
6 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Execution: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Impressive productivity and beautiful work
From 3 comments
Beautiful and inspiring, great work Dave, keep it up.
AfroDiva on HNAwesome job! Keep it up. Keep firing!
DamagedProperty on HNCongrats. I hope I can be this productive with my personal projects in 2014.
eponymous on HN
Objections
Many apps are low quality shovelware
From 3 comments
Don't take this the wrong way, but please don't contribute to the flood of low quality apps in the app store(s) that serves to drown even the better apps out there. I know of a…
ido on HNYes, they are "low quality apps"! Good luck ever getting featured by apple with one of these apps.
pseudometa on HNThat's a good output but a little disingenuous to say 22 when several are just various themes on the same engine. (E.g. 4 paint apps) Depending on your aim with these, next year…
Malcx on HN
Small apps earn very little money
From 2 comments
In a word, no. All that these apps have been doing (finically) is to pay for over heads. The most important thing for me is getting back on my creative horse this year, You'd…
DaveSapien on HNI average two sales ($.99) a day, minus a few spikes here and there. So as the say in Sunny Scotland 'pish'.
DaveSapien on HN
Weak marketing and discoverability
From 2 comments
Yeah, I totally agree. Many failures in marketing this year. Weird thing is, PooBarr the pooping bear has some great reviews out there but it dosen't seem to catch peoples…
DaveSapien on HNThat pretty cool! For small dev's like myself building a landing page is a pain but doable. What we dont have is spare cash so we end up putting something together ourselves. Our…
DaveSapien on HN
Requests
Share income statistics
From 1 comment
Agreed. Dave, can you please share your income statistics if any. That would be interesting insight.
shuaib on HN
Questions
Can you make a living from many small apps?
From 1 comment
Very nice work Dave - one thing thats probably a more interesting question - can you make a living on that? Making many small apps? Have also been toying with an idea to start…
velcro on HN
Is the painting engine's technical approach?
From 1 comment
can you tell us some technical details of the painting "engine"?
macarthy12 on HN