Giving up usually doesn't help. Just taking time to identify the root causes often leads to a simple and better solution.
Unfortunately, I am rarely able to convince others to follow along.
My company is extremely successful and our spectacular failures (often discussed on HN) pales in comparison to our success. I worked for several groups that lost multi-billion dollar markets because they were unwilling to make simple and obvious changes. For example, don't focus on our success and claim victory; look at our failures and make corrective actions. Seems pretty simple but maybe due to the innovator's dilemma, no one seems to care.
I've built similar platforms.
Naturally, I think they are awesome.
They are a core part of very valuable products like SAP, Salesforce, etc.
You will get a lot of push back from high developers who prefer direct access to the native api or html.
Please don't let them discourage you.
My response to them is that they can build reusable components that are driven by your json layer (win-win).
There are enough developers who will benefit.
Try to get funding sooner than later.
I waited too long.
You can't keep up building this by yourself.
Don't listen to the haters. This is extremely valuable. Especially in E-commerce.
Like when you have an ever expanding product line and new categories are being added all the time. Ever wondered why Amazon uses web views all over ?
Many E-commerce companies would love to be able to do extensive A/B testing or add analytics on the fly but are crippled by the App store and the limitations of native apps. Some have even built versions of this themselves.
What we need is an Android port of this and then this will be some hot shit. I am willing to help on the iOS side in any way I can.
When I read the Readme, I was thinking this could get a lot of limitations of store app updates. (As long as this thing can use a cached version of your json if it can't connect to the Interwebs).
I hate the walled gardens of the iOS/Android world and the fact that multi platform frameworks are so difficult. Seeing things like this are encouraging.
But my personal view is that we should support a syntax that is a subset or derivative of HTML while being performant so that any existing web framework can generate smooth native apps (while also side stepping Apples rules against implementing a browser engine :P).
It sounds stupid but I work in E-commerce and have wished for this many times.
It's an XML/HTML-like syntax for building native Apple TV apps using native components, but loaded over HTTP and without having to write Objc/Swift code. It's very much like this (or React Native), but in XML.
I think the key win here is very highly stylized native components that very elegant which solve specific use cases (content selection, database browsing, shops, etc). That way you can compete with react and friends who try to be everything to everybody.
I have built similar tools as well. You can't be generic because that requires programming skills. Focus on high value niches
And make everything look very very good. And perform very very fast.
Yes, keep it up! I shipped a fragment of something similar in an iOS app a few years ago, allowing my client to customize a complex form component of the app dynamically. It proved very useful.
exactly. that's a life skill no one can ever teach you. very few of us are lucky to have a perfect match - but the rest need to learn the hard way how to make a relationship work - how to resist temptation when your hormones are acting up and that cute new girl is giving you the look.
it's especially difficult in modern times, where so many people are discouraged from settling young and experimenting till you are into your late 20s or early 30s - while ignoring emotional well being and stability that are so important later on.
sex-ed is generally fubared in almost every country on the planet.
What if large companies built on-campus employee housing on top of their parking lots and moved the parking lots below ground? They could make a "corporate" city by adding a mall, hospital, child care/schooling. Imagine being able to have lunch with your family everyday; having a 15 minute walk to work.
Click the links in the "We're making the code for DeepMask+SharpMask as well as MultiPathNet" line. They should have made them display more prominently.
They require to login to FB, then redirect to GitHub
I used to give Dune to my teenage relatives and it usually turned them into avid readers; they would thank me later. I noticed that it doesn't hold the interests of the recent teenagers in the family; it is hard to get them to start and even harder to get them to finish. I think competition from the internet, youtube and cellphone is just too strong. That is horrible because developing a passion for reading helps lot in highschool/college/life. I've offered to pay them $100 and they still won't read it!
I read most of the Dune books back when I was a teenager, and despite being a usually voracious reader I found them very hard to get into. Worth the effort, mind you, but it's definitely a series which requires some investment.
This is very close to how I feel about Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. I read them because many of my friends who were also sci-fi readers raved about them.
I enjoyed Red Mars but I really had to slog through Green Mars and Blue Mars. Red Mars was fun and interesting, but I could have done without a few hundred pages of Sax Russell talking about plants in Green Mars.
I think worldbuilding books take a certain level of investment, even among voracious readers.
"Applied" education is the best path for the poor.
Don't teach the 3-Rs.
Teach them how to fix their problems:
1) fight the cycle of poverty
2) weaken gangs
3) reduce crime and drug usage
4) renovate local housing, schools, and infrastructure
5) create and run local businesses
6) employee all teenagers after school and during the summers,
etc.
Once they have pass those classes, they can learn the other stuff.
And this is how we should pay for it.
Sell treasury bonds like we would to raise funds to improve our national infrastructure.
In other words, invest in poor people in such a way that you can repay the investment from their future taxes.
Specifically, pay poor people to work their ass off to fight poverty.
(No person should be paid to do nothing; that is a horrible idea.)
Allow the wealthy who want to reduce their taxes to keep $x in taxes for every $y they invest in hiring poor people to fight the causes of poverty.
In fact, we should create poverty fighting companies who complete and measure their success by the quality of life improvements they cause.
The higher performing companies lower the taxes of their investors.
(This isn't even expensive. Paying a teenager to avoid a life of crime costs $1000s/year and putting them in jail costs $10,000s/year. Furthermore, providing teenagers with IUDs costs $100s and saves $1000s.)
Agreed, I made gross assumptions based on my crazy background and experiences. I grew up in public housing (80% welfare families) in East New York (Brooklyn) during the 80s when that tiny (crack infested) neighborhood had the highest murder rate in all of NYC. For the last 3 years, I currently fund the education, teach and mentor several people in the 3rd world who make less than $10/day. The poor people I grew with and I now try to help are ...
1. Smarter than me but don't know how to end the cycle of poverty (one had a baby recently at age of 19 and both parents are unemployed).
2. Are not lazy but work in dead-end 60-hour/week jobs where they are not learning the skills that allow them to make enough to escape poverty and have no time to learn new skills.
3. Are not criminals but have accepted their fate and are not working to change their neighborhoods to reduce the temptation of their kids to enter a life of crime.
4. Are not drug users but drug related crime and extreme violence surrounds them (they have seen dead bodies in the streets on their way to work).
Other kinds of poverty exists. My proposal should be adapted to work in the situations I've not experienced.
The US has a horrible human rights history.
The country started with genocide of native americans.
It enslaved and murdered millions of africans.
It still has very racist tendencies.
It killed several million koreans, vietnamese and cambodians (indirectly).
Then there is Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are a lot of really horrible things the US did that is on par with the Nazis and the worse we've seen from many other countries.
The US is good at hiding or ignoring its atrocities.
I don't think China is better or worse.
But I don't see why it should be vilified when the US (and many other 1st world countries) have done much worse things to each other and to the 3rd world.
In fact, I think all 3rd world countries should grow their internal markets in a similar way until they can become 1st world countries.
Unfortunately, I am rarely able to convince others to follow along.
My company is extremely successful and our spectacular failures (often discussed on HN) pales in comparison to our success. I worked for several groups that lost multi-billion dollar markets because they were unwilling to make simple and obvious changes. For example, don't focus on our success and claim victory; look at our failures and make corrective actions. Seems pretty simple but maybe due to the innovator's dilemma, no one seems to care.