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Kapeli Blog
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Kapeli Blog is the company blog at blog.kapeli.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2013, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Dash developer's response to Apple's response”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (28) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The Kapeli Blog is the developer's blog for Dash, an offline API documentation browser. HN readers link it mainly for the developer's own account of the Apple App Store dispute and for Dash product updates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 28 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Latest Dash News and Announcements
Most-linked posts?
- Dash developer's response to Apple's response9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-10-10
- Revenue report from mac app Dash for 20144 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-06-16
- Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-10-05
- Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-05-24
- 100 Days of Dash Without the App Store3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-12
- Dash 4: Now Available2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-20
- A Poor Man's CDN2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-28
- /dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-19
- Dash 3: Now Available2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-29
- Dash 7 Release2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-21
What Hacker News says?
Dash is back on the iOS app store[1], so they probably worked out the issue [1] https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-for-ios-back-on-the-app-store
Comment linking /dash-for-ios-back-on-the-app-store
on “DevDocs API Documentation”Submitted Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store as a story · 1036 points
HN discussionIt's a literal statement. Apple has phone calls with developers on occasion, especially in cases like this. Unusual, but not at all unprecedented. I'll just mention the famous case when a developer actually recorded the phone call with Apple: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
Comment linking /dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
on “About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store”Submitted Dash developer's response to Apple's response as a story · 190 points
HN discussionI use a tool called "Dash.app" for Mac from Kapeli [1] (I've no affiliation with them). It allows me to download the documentation for a lot of development tools for offline consumption, these docs are called "Docsets", just to give you an idea of how many docsets it has check this link [3]. It makes also very easy to navigate and search. You can also download a "tag" from stackoverflow which is very useful. I know…
Comment linking /dash-for-ios-android-windows-or-linux
on “Programming Notes for Professionals books”Submitted Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store as a story · 125 points
HN discussionThe author says that's not true. He has phone call recording proving he is right: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
Comment linking /dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
on “Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for months?”Submitted Dear Dash Users – A message to all Dash users from the Kapeli Blog as a story · 83 points
HN discussionReminds me of this article about hosting a CDN on digitalocean for the dash documentation software. http://blog.kapeli.com/a-poor-mans-cdn
Comment linking /a-poor-mans-cdn
on “Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour”Submitted Apple pulled Dash from the App Store for “review manipulation” as a story · 69 points
HN discussionPretty interesting - on the Dash blog in October[1], the developer said that open-source wouldn't be a great option because compiling iOS apps is difficult for most non-iOS developers. It's a shame, IMO, that iOS apps only have two wide-distribution models: paid, with Apple, on the App Store, or open-source and, by that nature, free. There's a lot of really great software on OS X that is distributed outside the Mac…
Comment linking /dear-dash-users/
on “Dash for iOS is now open source”Submitted Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store: Update as a story · 59 points
HN discussionThe developer gave some insight on his blog here: http://blog.kapeli.com/dash-for-ios-android-windows-or-linux
Comment linking /dash-for-ios-android-windows-or-linux
on “We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America'”Submitted Dash 5: API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager (macOS) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIt might be 13%, but it's a rather loyal user base. Being whimsical about what would or would not appear on the App Store is certainly abusive. -- Somewhat unrelated: https://blog.kapeli.com/apple-removed-dash-from-the-app-stor...
Comment linking /apple-removed-dash-from-the-app-store
on “Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS”Submitted Dash 3: Now Available as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAccording to his blog post [1], it sounds like the other account that was engaged in fraudulent activity was notified, but "his" account was not. [1]: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
Comment linking /dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
on “Apple Responds to Dash Controversy”Submitted Revenue report from mac app Dash for 2014 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIn telling the other side of the story, the Dash developer published his (apparently secret) recording of a 7-minute long telephone call he had with a person at Apple who purports to be speaking on behalf of Phil Schiller.[1] Leaving aside whatever inferences might be drawn from the fact that the developer saw fit to record and publish the recording in the first place, here's a brief summary of what was said: - Ther…
Comment linking /dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
on “Apple Responds to Dash Controversy”Submitted 100 Days of Dash Without the App Store as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's the developer's side of the story (includes a recording of a phone call between him and Apple) https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
Comment linking /dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
on “Apple Responds to Dash Controversy”Submitted Dash documentation browser makes 450$/day as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd here's Kapeli's explanation of what happened: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story !!! it includes a recording of a phone call with Apple !!! Edit: After listening to the first 2 minutes of the call, i can say with absolute confidence that Apple is straight-up blackmailing him. I would love to hear opinions on whether this is something that could be taken to court. Here's the HN submission…
Comment linking /dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
on “Apple Responds to Dash Controversy”Submitted The Cheap App Mentality as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe Dash developer posted his side of the story including a recorded call with Apple: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
Comment linking /dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
on “Apple Responds to Dash Controversy”Submitted A Poor Man's CDN as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSince the dev behind Dash is based in Romania[1], is this law still applicable? [1] https://blog.kapeli.com/about
Comment linking /about
on “Dash developer's response to Apple's response”Submitted Dash for Windows: Now in Beta as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDash App also have an offline Stack Overflow access (20gb): http://blog.kapeli.com/offline-stack-overflow (great for developing on the airplane)
Comment linking /offline-stack-overflow
on “Ask Stack Overflow for Atom”Submitted Dash 4: Now Available as a story · 3 points
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