It Starts With Science


I am Brandon Weiss. I build startups and web apps. I also Twitter.

Crap Store Redux

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Can someone tell me why there are 45 tip calculators on the App Store?  Forty-five.  I can understand 10 or so.  Before the App Store launched nobody knew what anyone else was making, so with something as basic and common as a tip calculator, there’s bound to be some overlap, but it has been three weeks now, and every single day I see another fucking tip calculator get added to the App Store.  Just today there were THREE more of them!  And, best of all, some of them cost money.  Most are free, but some range anywhere from a dollar to five bucks!  Newsflash!  Tap Tap Tap already cornered the market on tip calculators.  Tipulator looks awesome and is free .99 cents (did that just change or has it always been .99 cents?), you aren’t going to be able to make a better tip calculator than that, so please stop trying.

Oh, and also, stop making flashlight apps, there are enough of those too.



July 31, 2008, 9:49pm