RAVN
Consumer and social
event discovery app
SHOW HN2012
74points
51comments
#321of 1,677 in 2012
Top 20%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 10 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Execution: 4 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks great and simple landing page
From 2 comments
The landing page is fantastic. Super simple initially, more info if I want it. I wish the features section was more visual.
draggnar on HNI'm pretty impressed with what you can achieve by running JS in a WebView, that said, it still is not as responsive as a native app. This is one of the better attempts I've seen…
bwm on HN
Objections
Titanium is slower and buggier than native code
From 3 comments
It's been 4 or 5 months since I switched from Titanium to writing native Objective C myself, so things may have changed since then (but I don't think they have). It's a misnomer…
silverlight on HNTitanium was a nightmare. The edit-compile-debug cycle is so slow. I ran back to ObjC after two weeks. Development is faster and the resulting apps are better. It has good points…
sjs on HNI am the founder of http://theicebreak.com We have built our app ( Icebreak for Couples - http://itunes.apple.com/app/id476063944 ) using Titanium. When we started building it,…
d2ncal on HN
Android porting is hard with Titanium
From 3 comments
Been using Titanium for a little over a year on an app for our company. By all definitions our app is very simple - a login form, tableviews that drill down two levels and…
jakejake on HNWith Android it's like testing 10 versions of IE6 -- every device/OS combo seems to behave differently. Android development with Titanium was much easier when I started using a…
trabianmatt on HNI am the founder of http://theicebreak.com We have built our app ( Icebreak for Couples - http://itunes.apple.com/app/id476063944 ) using Titanium. When we started building it,…
d2ncal on HN
Posts to Facebook timeline without approval
From 2 comments
The app looks great, congrats on that. The thing that bothers me though is that it posts stuff on my FB timeline without my approval first. This does not sound like a good…
romefort on HNThe app seems to be great, but unfortunately I'm hesitant to find out since it requires Facebook to do anything. I really don't want an app to be posting my activities on my…
alphakappa on HN
Requests
Compare against PhoneGap
From 1 comment
Can you please compare Titanium against PhoneGap? Are you sure that Titanium really compiles to native?
johnx123-up on HN
Port to webOS or other platforms
From 1 comment
Do you guys realize that webOS apps are written in web languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript) so it would not be very difficult to port your app to webOS. More than that, if you write…
skat_et_dieu on HN
Questions
Was it built with Titanium or PhoneGap, and does it truly compile to native?
From 3 comments
What framework did you use?
flixic on HNCan you please compare Titanium against PhoneGap? Are you sure that Titanium really compiles to native?
johnx123-up on HNWhoa, didn't know Titanium compiles javascript into native code. Cool! But Phonegap has a pretty rich set of plugins and its relatively painless to extend Phonegap's…
mcrider on HN
Alternatives named
PhoneGap
From 1 comment
Hi, I'm the CTO for RAVN. When we decided to jump into the mobile dev game no one in our company had any experience with Object C or Android dev. We knew we wanted an iPhone app…
stevenou on HN
appMobi
From 1 comment
Did you ever consider appMobi?
Kiro on HN
Enyo
From 1 comment
Have you looked into the new Enyo framework to deploy apps?
skat_et_dieu on HN