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Elia Insider
Personal blog · eliainsider.com · on HN as eliajfbusinessstartups
Elia Insider is a personal blog at eliainsider.com about business and startups. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Inside the brain of a software company founder.
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When you rely on another company's platform you are betting everything on the health and future of that platform. HTML will be around and Obj-C will be around. Will Parse? And if it isn't can you switch away quickly? I wrote about this last week, actually, if it is helpful: http://eliainsider.com/2012/08/17/live-platform-die-platform...
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on “Question about Iphone apps development platform”Submitted IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight as a story · 366 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's churning of the gut as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apps Are Not Software as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Unbelievably Awesome Retail Experience as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted All I Want for WWDC Is My Two Front Teeth as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Doesn't Have To Do Jack S*** as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some of the worst startup advice I've ever read as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Science is a Misnomer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Apple Squeeze as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we will all work with numbers in the future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 Thoughts On Converting Apps To iOS 7 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OS control and the next billion smartphones as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live By The Platform, Die By The Platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Start-Ups Need Capital, Product, Customers. Which Do You Bring? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nokia, HP and RIM, Oh My: A Mobile Developer's Perspective as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why RIM is Flailing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The one who owns the customer wins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if Apple is actually better without Steve Jobs? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The iPad 2 and Education as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Commoditize everyone else's business as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The App Store Problem Is Not Price as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software, The Art Form as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artery Calcification as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The key to entrepreneurship as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Small Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Doesn't Equal VC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The devil's in the details: designing a log in screen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The state of civility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the new iPod nano is interesting as a story · 1 points
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