levirosol
Joined 17 years ago
Joined 17 years ago
But the middle aged women demo does not think like your typical HN reader. And that demo is orders of magntude larger than the HN community.
At best, OP should pray to monetize 2% of their audience. Of that, only maybe 15% end up being repeat customers.
and remember, 37% of all stats quoted on the internet are made up. but you get my point ;)
Take additional $0.99s and give me boosters, like clock extenders, wild letters, and hints.
Leaderboards. OMG. Leaderboards...
Let me grow your user base by inviting my FB friends in exchange for said boosters.
Relevant leaderboards (because people i know are on them)
Spend half of those $0.99s and hire a designer to create a design that caters to the middle aged women crowd. Spend the other half of the $0.99s on advertising. Web / Fb of course, but late night TV seems to do exceptionally well for that demo.
Recoup those $0.99s by running your own ads for said ad free version and boosters with a larger audience.
Being a developer who heavily utilizes internal and external APIs, I like the idea of a tool like this, however, I'm really hesitant to run all calls through a single 3rd party. Especially one this green.
The next question I have is, what about auth? It seems like it could get really messy / insecure using something like this.
Seems like a great project to open source and to run on your own hardware.
At the risk of being called insane, I did the same steps 3 times over and got he same result.
So I see RM 4 came out today. Normally with any software I rely on for my day to day work, I wait at least a couple weeks before upgrading. However, against better judgement I start the download and install it.
Now I'm screwed.
700% CPU spikes on project open. Then it hangs, completely unresponsive, chewing up 100% CPU. I went to lunch and upon my return I see it's no longer using 100% CPU but it's still hung.
My scenario, Ubuntu 11.10, i7, 8gb ram.
YMMV, but I'd wait if I were you.
P.S. Anyone from jetbrains, feel free to contact me. I love the product and am confident this is a release day issue that you will get resolved quickly.
Update
I found that opening a smaller project would work, but that the initial (largish) project would not load. After allocating 4gb of ram to RM, it finally opened.
edit this file to do the same: RM_path/bin/rubymine64.vmoptions
I went with these for settings:
-Xms512m -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=700m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=128m -ea
Pairing with a FTE, having good tests, etc all make the situation sound safer, but I'm not sure you should take them into consideration when buying insurance. Shit still happens even if someone is there watching with you.