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Dan Counsell
Personal blog · dancounsell.combusinessprogrammingstartups
Dan Counsell's personal blog at dancounsell.com covers business, programming and startups. Since 2013, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Mac Apps Product Revenue Snapshot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Notes on technology, running an independent business, and making nice things.
Most-linked posts?
- Mac Apps Product Revenue Snapshot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-09
- The Mac App Store Still Needs Paid Upgrades2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-13
- A Wish List for the Mac App Store2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-08
What Hacker News says?
This won't help one bit. Seriously: Why do developers like those from Sketch drop the Mac App Store? Here's why: https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/01/another-popular-app-leaves... http://blog.wilshipley.com/2012/03/mac-app-store-needs-paid-... https://www.dancounsell.com/a-wish-list-for-the-mac-app-stor... https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/developers-keep-leaving-mac-ap...
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on “Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to Create One User Experience”Submitted Building a Hackintosh Pro as a story · 350 points
HN discussionDan and other indie developers talk a lot about the importance of doing your own marketing, even if you are in the App Store. And they also underline how being listed in the App Store isn’t close to the results of proper marketing. http://dancounsell.com/articles/thoughts-on-increasing-app-r... http://www.joecieplinski.com/blog/2014/12/22/building-a-show...
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on “Benefits of Selling Outside the Mac App Store”Submitted Benefits of Selling Outside the Mac App Store as a story · 110 points
HN discussionThere was another Mac App Store article on here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10056593 The Mac App Store Still Needs Paid Upgrades http://dancounsell.com/articles/the-mac-app-store-still-need...
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on “Apple's 30%”Submitted The Mac App Store Still Needs Paid Upgrades as a story · 99 points
HN discussionSubmitted Buying a Commodore Amiga 30 Years Later as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paid, paymium, or freemium? (iOS Apps) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mac Utilities I Can’t Live Without as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Removing Distractions: Part 2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Raised $120,000 with Crowdfunding as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Deleted My Twitter Account with 20K Followers. Here's Why I'm Starting Again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Wish List for the Mac App Store as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problem with iPad and why it's not a Mac replacement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing the Right Pricing Model for Your App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Details behind RapidWeaver's 6-figure app launch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are You Building an App or a Business? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prompting for app reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing great App Store screenshots as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Million Dollar Software Business Almost Gave Me a Nervous Breakdown as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Simple Task Management System That Works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Buying a Commodore Amiga 30 Years Later (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Buying a Commodore Amiga 30 Years Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New app marketing guides by Realmac Software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mac Apps Product Revenue Snapshot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product Revenue Snapshot as a story · 1 points
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