thestoicjester

I was playing around with writing an app for the new Apple TV, and it was fun enough that I ended up putting a bit of polish on it and releasing it to the app store. It's a free game called Slingshot Superhero.

It wasn't until the app got approved that I started to realize just how terrible app discovery is on the platform. There's no "new apps" list at all. There are no Top 100 lists in the individual categories. I can't even link you guys to the app. The only way anybody can find my app is if I personally tell them to go to the app store, find the search feature, and use the hilariously bad text input feature to search for "Slingshot Superhero".

I probably won't be making any more Apple TV apps.

I feel like we're past due for somebody to come in here and complain about there being too much meta-discussion of HN these days.

True. But the suburb I was living in was pretty close.

Yeah, absolutely there is a great tech scene in the TC area. I tried to paint MN and my former employer in as good of a light as I could while concurrently throwing them under the bus and using them as the bad guy in the story.

Hmmm, I don't think so. I did a pretty good job of avoiding... everyone during that period of my life. It's only in recent years that I've realized that there are better ways to operate than being a complete hermit-weirdo.

Yeah, thanks for the heads up. Just set up CloudFlare, so hopefully the stress level will be going down.

Tomorrow will be 11/12/11 again. Just like in 1911.

Neat. I'm pretty sure that text at the beginning is a reference to a similar easter egg from an old version of windows (95 maybe?).

Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's not stupid.