I'm totally excited about heroic labs. Is there any other company providing this service (that isn't part of a closed eco system that is)?
AppCanary sounds great. I've been working on a tiny prototype that makes use of a dockerfile to check on software that should be updated and sends a mail/SMS when an update is needed. Connects to various RSS feeds and vulnerability DBs to figure out when to notify the user. I guess AppCanary can be a drop in replacement for that.
On a separate note, and I hope I'm not putting negative fuel here, would anyone be interested in a quick and dirty website to place bets on whether a company will grow or fail and maybe how long it will take to go big/fail? Point here isn't to hate on any company. It would just be an experiment that would yield some interesting results in a couple of years as to how good our individual abilities are in predicting success/failure.
"Everything you can do with a frown, you can do with a smile."
I think you can give a positive spin to your site. That is people can say why they think a certain product will succeed (break market & competitors analysis/overview, team strength, product strength, etc....). They can also state what problems they may face etc.. And please delete and do not allow negative comments that add nothing to the feedback.
On a site like that, I don't think I'd ever want to allow comments :D . Thanks for the feedback
Edit - After reading this I just realised it could be taken as loaded with snark. Really did not want it to come across as that. Just to clarify my statement, a website which allows for people to comment on the highly polarizing issue that is "what value, if any, does this new Silicon Valley funded startup X bring to the table?" would probably be filled up with thoughtless/cruel comments right at the start. I'd never be able to control that on my own, so would just never build a site like that that allows for comments.
Again, sorry if my initial statement came off as snarky.
Edit - In case anyone wonders what the deleted comment was about, it was a reference to https://unity3d.com/services/multiplayer (Unity's multiplayer infrastructure offering).
Well, Unity and the like will probably keep building their services into their own frameworks while Heroic Labs might just survive the onslaught by being the one group that has an open API for anyone to integrate into. This could theoretically allow for more creative game development (especially in turn based games) where you might use a full blow Unity engine game for desktop/web and maybe a component attached to mobile (a side companion that gives strategy advice etc.) that would just be a native app instead of a game.
They'll probably need to hustle on getting past just simple turn based games if they want to compete though. It looks like Unity's offering is aimed at delivering on real time multiplayer as well.
AppCanary sounds great. I've been working on a tiny prototype that makes use of a dockerfile to check on software that should be updated and sends a mail/SMS when an update is needed. Connects to various RSS feeds and vulnerability DBs to figure out when to notify the user. I guess AppCanary can be a drop in replacement for that.
On a separate note, and I hope I'm not putting negative fuel here, would anyone be interested in a quick and dirty website to place bets on whether a company will grow or fail and maybe how long it will take to go big/fail? Point here isn't to hate on any company. It would just be an experiment that would yield some interesting results in a couple of years as to how good our individual abilities are in predicting success/failure.