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Discovr Blog
discovr.info · Company blog · on HN since 2011
The team behind the Discovr music discovery iOS apps, based in Perth, writes about app launches, scaling on AWS, and UX.
What HN saysHN links it for numbers and lessons from the app's launch, such as iOS 6 adoption at 77%, and one commenter subscribed after reading it.
17HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
28stories submitted
337story points
13 years agolast shared
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Most-shared posts
- 1UX design experiments of a Number 1 app3 people · 41 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
- 2Scaling a Rails Webservice on AWS/EC2 for a #1 iPhone and iPad App2 people · 39 points · first shared 2011 · 17 comments on HN
- 3Discovr iOS 6 Adoption Tops 77%, iPhone 5 is 6%2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 4Homepage2 people · first shared 2011
- 5Tiny Australian startup gets 250,000 downloads of its app in just 4 days1 people · 55 points · first shared 2011 · 18 comments on HN
- 6Books that helped us reach a million downloads1 people · 51 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
- 7How We Track Our App Reviews, And Why You Should Too1 people · 30 points · first shared 2012 · 9 comments on HN
- 8Launching your iPhone & iPad App With Amazon Web Services1 people · 28 points · first shared 2011 · 4 comments on HN
- 9Announcing Discovr Apps – discover new iOS apps1 people · 22 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
- 10Marketing Hacks for iOS: How we got 250k downloads in 4 days.1 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11A note to all creators — coders, designers, entrepreneurs1 people · 7 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 12Discovr Music adds playback via Spotify & Rdio1 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13Tips For Developing Native Apps For Both iOS and OS X1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 1415 Tips To Tackling ‘Coders Block’ And Being More Productive1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 155 iOS Development Influencers To Follow On Twitter1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
monkey_slap · 2013-06-20
It becomes much easier over time. I'm at a point where I could certainly accomplish this, especially now with great projects like CocoaPods. Experienced web developers can create a simple CMS lightyears faster than I can, its all relative.
Now what I find most interesting is that the author doesn't seem to have a large portfolio of apps. The "More by this Developer" link only shows this app, while his website only points to Discovr (http://discovr.info/) which I can't imagine he's the only developer for. I'd be curious to learn more about his expertise.
callumjones · 2011-11-14
Check out FilterSquad (makers of the Discovr apps), they are based in Perth.
http://discovr.info/
jjsz · 2013-07-21
Thanks, if it wasn't for your comment I wouldn't have subscribed. On Feedly [0] he only has 2k subscribers. If anyone knows similar blogs like this, I'll like to know where I can find them. There really needs to be a Discovr [1] Blogs. It would be just as great if they get pinged and they say they're working on it :-). Currently I'm subscribed to H+ [2] and Singularity Hub [3]. I made a Reddit post asking the same question recently. [4]
[0] http://cloud.feedly.com/
[1] http://discovr.info/about/
[2] http://hplusmagazine.com/
[3] http://singularityhub.com/
[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/1iq9qx/
SyneRyder · 2012-10-12
The folks behind Discovr Music say they're at 77% iOS 6 adoption: http://discovr.info/2012/10/discovr-ios-6-adoption-tops-77-iphone-5-is…
filterstu · 2012-07-27
Yep did see that, agree it's a pretty big coincidence they launched a few days after mine http://discovr.info/2012/07/how-we-track-our-app-reviews-and-why-you-s…
bobbles · 2011-12-06
Links broken, think they wanted this: http://discovr.info/2011/12/ux-design-experiments-for-a-number-1-mobil…
ramanujam · 2011-12-06
The link points to the wordpress preview which isn't public. Proper url to the post. http://discovr.info/2011/12/ux-design-experiments-for-a-number-1-mobil…
OP, please edit the link while you can.
EDIT: I assume all 4 upvotes in the first few minutes came from the Discovr team hoping to push it to the front page. Just an observation.
jxj310 · 2011-07-26
Looks like they built on AWS to achieve that scale. Pretty cool.
http://discovr.info/2011/07/scaling-a-rails-webservice-on-awsec2-for-a…