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Re: Brainstorm for more developers/apps

 

Here im developing my own versión of tje facebook app but native. That
should attract if i make it right. I know social networks its what most
people love on their phones.

El dom., jun. 28, 2015 3:29 AM, Roman Shchekin <mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> Hi all
>
> Currently I am working on two applications, both are native cloud storage
> clients for "Yandex.Disk" service - "YaD" and "YaD Pro". First one is quite
> simple because of crossplatformness on package level (it's pure QML app,
> while a lot of advanced features requred C++). Second one is much more
> powerful, but isn't free. I can make it free after little crowdfunding.
> Personally I almost hate all products of Yandex, but Yandex.Disk is really
> cool - a lot of FREE space at the beginning, even more if invite friends.
> We can propose it and my client as default cloud storage service and its
> client (just like Telegram as default messenger). What do you think about
> it?
>
> 2015-06-28 1:10 GMT+03:00 Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm thinking what to do to attract more devs involved into creating
>> apps/scopes for Ubuntu.
>> Here is list what apps people really need
>>
>> http://sturmflut.github.io/ubuntu/2015/06/27/ubuntu-app-scope-wishlist-june-2015/
>> Personaly, I would love to see some sport tracker, like open source
>> https://github.com/jonasoreland/runnerup
>> some high quality turn-by-turn GPS navi, some document editor.
>> What do you think of using crowdfunding to get some bigger apps? In my
>> opinion, we can be positive surprised how many people can give some
>> cash to hire developers for that great jobs! ;)
>> Cash from crowdfunding should go to some freelancers that will create
>> forks or maybe to devs of existing android/ios apps to hire them in
>> porting their projects? In my personal opinion - second one.
>>
>> I've got also some question about getting cash for apps. How devs can
>> gain money except selling their products in store? Are there some
>> micro-payments implemented? Ads showing? Is there similar thing to
>> Google Ads services? Or can devs use Google Adsense/Adwords in Ubuntu
>> to gain money?
>>
>> PS. Is there any tutorial how to port open-source android apps?
>>
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