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WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why.

Big Technology • 18639 implied HN points • 12 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Social media Messaging Mobile Apps
  1. WhatsApp is experiencing significant growth in the United States, with a 9% increase in daily users in 2023.
  2. Many Americans are now turning to WhatsApp as their go-to messaging app, avoiding the blue vs. green bubble debate.
  3. This surge in popularity is attributed to the influence of Tim Cook and strategic planning efforts.

My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her A Radar

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 1304 HN points • 27 Nov 23
🕹 Technology App Development User Experience API Integration Mobile Apps Software Development
  1. The idea for the app came from the author's toddler's fascination with planes, leading to the creation of a radar app.
  2. The app was built to be engaging and fun for kids, with features like showing nearby flights and being oriented correctly.
  3. The author went through user testing with their toddler to ensure the app was enjoyable and successful before launching it on the App Store.

Console #190 - Coolest Open Source projects of the week 🔥

Console • 472 implied HN points • 01 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Open Source Mobile Apps React
  1. The post features coolest open source projects of the week, including mobile apps, music streaming, React, and other software.
  2. Projects like Inure, Plasmic, and Dockge showcase innovative solutions and technologies in the open-source community.
  3. BlackHole, Twenty, and Plate are examples of projects with significant stars and potential impact, like a music player app, a modern alternative to Salesforce, and a rich-text editor for React.

Superteam India Community Update: Jan 2024

The Superteam Blog • 137 implied HN points • 04 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Cryptocurrency Mobile Apps Web3
  1. The newsletter celebrates Superteam members' achievements like projects hitting milestones and generating revenue.
  2. Community members contributed to ecosystem through code and content in areas like developer tooling and content creation.
  3. Updates on projects shipped in January include Proto App, Saganize SDK, and Little Unusual, highlighting key milestones and activities.
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🚗 Waze

First 1000 • 1041 implied HN points • 28 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Community Data Mobile Apps Acquisition
  1. Let the 1% help you build, they're probably more willing than you think
  2. Reward the 9% for their efforts, they just want to know they'll be recognized
  3. Make the 90% feel something, sometimes emotion is more powerful than utility

Now live for all: Substack Notes

Substack Blog • 748 HN points • 11 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Product Network Content Subscription Mobile Apps
  1. Substack Notes is a new space for sharing short-form content and connecting with other writers and readers on the Substack platform.
  2. Notes can help writers grow their audience and revenue by sharing links, images, quick thoughts, and snippets from Substack posts.
  3. Writers can use Notes to recommend others' work, share commentary and inspiration, 'restack' a quote, and provide a behind-the-scenes look into their content.

The 2FA app that tells you when you get `012345`

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 16 HN points • 19 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Mobile Apps Development Software Bug Fixing
  1. The app's creator derived inspiration for the 2FA app from spotting interesting patterns in the codes, like counting sequences and repeated numerical patterns.
  2. The concept was proven through a proof of concept demonstrating local code generation and push notifications for rare interesting codes.
  3. The app development process included tackling challenges like storing multiple 2FA accounts securely, implementing interestingness features, and improving performance with optimized processing tasks and notifications.

Rethinking Descriptive Camera in the age of AI

Thoughts • 19 implied HN points • 30 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI App Development Machine Learning Mobile Apps
  1. The concept of using AI to describe images has evolved over the years, from human-powered descriptions to ML-based automated descriptions.
  2. The Implai app takes image descriptions a step further by adding enhancements or filters, providing a new way to share 'text photos'.
  3. Users can create 'text photos' with descriptions and apply 'tilters' to enhance the appearance before sharing and engaging with others in the app.

High Performance Swift Apps

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 1 HN point • 04 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Programming Performance optimization Mobile Apps
  1. Testing on a real device to identify user-facing problems is crucial for improving app performance.
  2. Profiling the app using Instruments to identify bottlenecks and implementing targeted code improvements based on the findings can significantly enhance performance.
  3. Improving processing speed, utilizing parallelism, and optimizing code to run earlier during app launch are key strategies for enhancing the performance of Swift apps.

10 Million Users And Rising Fast: Sri Mandir's Quest To Put A Temple In Every Phone

Tigerfeathers! • 15 implied HN points • 09 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Startups Mobile Apps Entrepreneurship Product Design User engagement
  1. Sri Mandir is a startup creating an app aimed at transforming devotion for smartphone users in India.
  2. The app combines traditional practices with modern technology, making it nostalgic yet innovative.
  3. Sri Mandir's success highlights the significant market for religious products and the potential for growth and impact in faith-tech industry.

Any-to-Any Generative AI Model, Generative AI for 3D game development, Mobile app Development from Text, Context Window of 1 Billion+ tokens, Bark on Discord and more

AI Brews • 2 HN points • 07 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Game Development Mobile Apps Open Source
  1. Microsoft Research introduces a novel generative model that can create any combination of output from any input modalities.
  2. MoonlanderAI launches a generative AI platform for building immersive 3D games using text descriptions.
  3. Bark on Discord now provides text-to-audio capabilities, offering realistic multilingual speech and various audio outputs.

What Makes A Mobile Consumer App Successful

Venture Prose • 0 implied HN points • 29 Jul 16
🕹 Technology Mobile Apps Entrepreneurship Product Development UI/UX Design Startup Success
  1. Key elements for a successful mobile consumer app include product-market fit, positive virality rate, and retention over time.
  2. To succeed, a mobile app must provide utility, become a regular part of users' lives, and foster a sense of community.
  3. Building a mobile consumer app involves creating great UI/UX, ensuring quick user benefit discovery, and connecting users for interaction and engagement.

Testing a mobile app using a device you don’t have

Cybervelia • 0 implied HN points • 17 May 23
🕹 Technology Mobile Apps
  1. Testing an IoT app without checking its BLE communication can be a missed opportunity.
  2. Reverse engineering an app involves dissecting core components like device name, service discovery, and behavioral analysis.
  3. Understanding how to create a fake device, connect it to the app, and analyze exchanged data can reveal valuable insights in app testing.

How to convert a Website to an Android App

The journey of a solopreneur (by David Journeypreneur) • 0 implied HN points • 03 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Mobile Apps App Development
  1. Converting a website to an Android app enhances user experience, expands reach, and boosts engagement and loyalty.
  2. Consider custom app development or no-code app builders like WebToApp.app for conversion.
  3. WebToApp.app offers a user-friendly interface, no coding knowledge requirement, quick conversion, design templates, and affordable pricing.

h8rs gonna h8

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 0 implied HN points • 19 Mar 15
🕹 Technology Internet Wearable Tech Social media Mobile Apps Tech Trends
  1. Explaining the magic of Google Autocomplete: It's more than what Google initially envisioned and keeps things quirky. Let's keep Autocomplete weird.
  2. How Larry King tweets: He uses a flip phone, calls an assistant to transcribe, and claims to tweet daily. A unique approach to social media.
  3. Effects of Internet trends: Punctuation-less humor is catching on, but it might not be everyone's cup of tea. Trends in online communication evolve quickly.

PURE GOLD.

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 0 implied HN points • 16 Dec 14
🕹 Technology Social media Mobile Apps Internet culture
  1. The resurgence of chat rooms online has significance beyond nostalgia, serving as an intimate space amidst public-facing social web and surveillance concerns.
  2. Even years after unintentionally gaining fame for 'restoring' a fresco, Cecilia Gimenez remains a notable figure and a hero in her internet-famous town.
  3. Questions about preloaded apps on phones raise reflections on modern tech values, like why certain apps are considered essential while others can be deleted.

Oy, the kids these days

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 0 implied HN points • 25 Sep 14
🕹 Technology Social media Internet culture Mobile Apps
  1. Researchers tracked tweets before and after breakups, revealing funny, sad, and typical youth behaviors.
  2. 4chan's mysterious activities include leaking nudes and convincing people to nuke iPhones.
  3. North Korea's controlled national intranet operates secretly and humorously, with notable features like enlarged fonts for Kim Jong Un's name.