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Materialistic - Hacker News?
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Popularity Score: 15
This app was mentioned in 18 comments, with an average of 16.17 upvotes
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My app is at 10-50k downloads, with 500+ ratings avg 4.67, but it's not always a smooth sail. Here are what I learned:
- Make a solid app, and be a user yourself so you can make it suit your user base better, this is essential of course.
- Communicate clearly on unique selling points of your app on play store, so that you don't get a lot of comments like 'this app doesn't have feature X from another app', and don't oversell them.
- Have a feedback channel where users can report problem. It's hard for one to report a problem and leave 5-star rating at the same time.
- Find a good strategy to ask for ratings on updates. My strategy is to ask for it when I have some really exciting changes I want to communicate. And it's better to be in-app than to use play store "What's New". I never ask for ratings for bug fixes, IMO a bunch of bug fixes no matter how important they are won't get you a good rating.
Hacker News https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic and if u are into RSS, definitely spaRSS which I use and I'm heavily satisfied with and is waaaaaayy better than poorly done and slow Feedly https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.etuldan.sparss
This is going to depend on what kind of news you are looking for, but I like reading from Hacker News. It is mostly tech oriented. I like to think of it as Reddit without the drama and memes. I have been using the app Materialistic to read from.
Personally:
HackerNews (To make the site bearable, use Materialistic for mobile and the HNES for Chrome)
Physical subscription to MIT Technology Review magazine
Twitter - If you follow the right people (Martin Fowler, Jeff Atwood, Mark Reinhold, etc.) their insights into upcoming trends will help keep you up to date on what's new and interesting... usually.
Reddit - /r/technology, /r/coding, /r/compsci, etc.
IRC - just hang out in the channels related to the language and technology you're interested in
Meetup.com - Go to tech meetups and listen to talks. Usually they have free pizza and beer
Youtube - Coding Tech, Computerphile, The Coding Train, Fun Fun Function, Derek Banas
I'm currently using Materialistic.
Not as feature complete as Sync, but it works fine for what I do.
This is the one I use, though its not very similar to Relay, it has the same material design
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic&hl=en
Try Materialistic.
There are already a lot of options available. Considering the limited features and simplicity HN offers, why do you believe it's worth devs time developing another app? To put in contrast: Relay offers something that is widely different from other Reddit apps.
https://hckrnews.com/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic
http://hn.premii.com/about/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly.hn
https://hackerweb.app/
Or simply... https://news.ycombinator.com/news
Personally:
Materialistic for HackerNews
Physical subscription to MIT Technology Review
Twitter - If you follow the right people (Martin Fowler, Jeff Atwood, Mark Reinhold, etc.) their insights into upcoming trends will help keep you up to date on what's new and interesting... usually.
I personally use Materialistic on Android.
Have you tried Materialistic? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic
For Android I have been using "Materialistic - Hacker News" for sometime now. You can give it a try.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic
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