HB seems to be taking over for spokoder.com.
Check the link here:
http://www.hackerbreakfast.com/
No meeting in a long time so we are trying something new. Saturday morning breakfast at the Old European on Division.
Carb eating optional.
Sometimes Its hard to find a good meeting time.
Steam plant again.
You have to show up to find out.
I have been a bad organizer lately. Lets try for this Thursday, Aug 12.
Some nice info from the Tap Tap Tap people about the App Store here
t’s definitely worth noting that unlike in our early days in the App Store, we don’t do any advertising for our apps anymore. I feel I need to make this distinction because it was definitely part of our recipe for early success and we still get a lot of traffic on posts that talk about it. But ad costs have simply become too prohibitive to be effective for a business like ours now.
and
Taking a quick snapshot of the current Top 25 Paid chart in the US, you see that all but 5 of those apps are either games or in the entertainment category. 20 out of 25 (and one of them actually gamed the system to get there). Considering that there are currently 20 different categories in the App Store, it’s easy to see that games completely dominate the App Store.
and this is interesting:
One of the things that could account for higher potential international sales for non-game apps is that many countries don’t have games dominate the charts as much as they do in the US. Take Finland, for example, where Camera+ has done very well recently and you see that only 11 out of the top 25 are games or entertainment.
I’m out of town for a week but want to keep this going. My next time slot would probably be Wednesday 7/14. Summer is always hard to predict but hopefully we can work something out. I propose we call this officially the “bring a friend” meeting.
Oh and I won’t be ashamed to show my face since I finally shipped something, no matter how small I got my app up in the store. So far I have sold 9 copies and I think I know less than half of the purchasers…
We are now set up for steam plant. 7pm. If you bring someone new I will personally buy you or them a free drink. See you then.
The first meeting was pretty fun. It ended up going way longer than I expected. I think I left around 11pm.
I learned about Open Calais which seems pretty cool even though I can’t think of any use for it.
For the next meeting I would like to do it somewhere which actually has internet. Ideas?
Still looking for ways to find some more people. A few people had conflicts this time so maybe we will have some new faces for the next one.
Also I found this group and became their fan on Facebook.
SPOKANE MOBILE USERS and DEVELOPERS GROUP
http://gravityjack.com/what-we-do/smudg
I’m not really sure who they or Gravity Jack are but maybe we can find out next month.
Oh and also. If its raining and you are on your bike, its good to remember ALL of your raingear.
Not sure how many we will have.
Please sign up if you plan on coming but at least it won’t be just me.
