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[{"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302820603.149554, "message": "@klauern Yeah.. that is still WIP so it doesn't link to anything yet", "group_id": 95, "id": 692037}, {"user_id": 4221, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302820874.960783, "message": "Ah.  Your tagline is catchy, but I'm still not sure what I'd do with it.  Is this some sort of plugin for a mobile app that you already wrote so you can abstract your data model and provide analytics from your users?", "group_id": 95, "id": 692062}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302818527.3368399, "message": "Hey HN\nI've been working on this project on the side and now I'm at the point of getting close to a golden release. AppDK is a Dev Kit for iOS developers and our goal is to make developing better mobile apps with as little effort as possible.\nWe're launching in a few weeks and we'll be happy to talk to iOS devs on HN to get feedback, suggestions or anything to try out. Hope to get feedback from everyone else here on HN, if you got any ideas that you want to throw our way free feel to email me AppDevKit at Google's Email Service.\nThanks!", "group_id": 95, "id": 691773}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302818550.1946671, "message": "http://appdk.com", "group_id": 95, "id": 691778}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302820573.079186, "message": "Yeah.. that is still WIP so it doesn't link to anything yet", "group_id": 95, "id": 692034}, {"user_id": 4221, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302820017.2585011, "message": "Is that expected?", "group_id": 95, "id": 691931}, {"user_id": 4221, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302820009.127775, "message": "Your \"Features\" and \"Pricing\" links don't work for me for some reason... Your 'Home' and 'Contact' do.", "group_id": 95, "id": 691929}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302820775.4743791, "message": "@klauern developers would still write code with xcode but we provide a SDK that helps them make user data portable across devices, that is just one feature of our SDK", "group_id": 95, "id": 692050}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302821209.5158341, "message": "here's a simple scenario that i was trying to illustrate with the images in the center on the main page. a user plays your game on the ipad then goes out for a drink with friends and on the way home, he gets bored. he starts playing your game on his iphone, his previous game state and data is synced to his iphone when he starts the game on his iphone. similar use cases can be said for any iphone applications", "group_id": 95, "id": 692101}, {"user_id": 4221, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302820621.5265169, "message": "I'm new to any sort of mobile development, so what would make this a better choice than Apple's XCode tools?", "group_id": 95, "id": 692038}, {"user_id": 4221, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302821347.3300321, "message": "Oh, I get it.  So this is for syncing a user's iPad and iPhone?  Kind of like a web app, but localized to the phone?", "group_id": 95, "id": 692118}, {"user_id": 20884, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302822092.7689409, "message": "Uh, huh. @appdk looks nice, except the alerts. Please tell me the alert's don't look like that. And BTW, great idea.", "group_id": 95, "id": 692221}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302821477.6059711, "message": "yeah.. that is just one feature of our sdk there a few others that we're still working on. our objective is to add more value to your app's baseline and make your users happy", "group_id": 95, "id": 692134}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302822160.324192, "message": "hahaha.. sorry that's my bad photoshop skills. we try to stick to using Apple's UI as much as possible", "group_id": 95, "id": 692228}, {"user_id": 1059, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302835793.7886939, "message": "i echo what @ahonorstudent said.. is this a complete native widget implementation?", "group_id": 95, "id": 694345}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302842315.3016131, "message": "@amir yes, parts of the sdk uses UIKit UI and there are some custom widgets and the goal is to make these widget with multiple themes if not at all reskin-able.", "group_id": 95, "id": 695776}, {"user_id": 23304, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302873305.280762, "message": "If you are a power user and not a coder, can you use this?", "group_id": 95, "id": 700218}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302879048.9603961, "message": "@hardaway what do you mean by power user? in general, the iOS apps that you are using needs to use our SDK and with a few lines of code, you - the app user should be able to have your app data sync'ed automatically", "group_id": 95, "id": 700929}, {"user_id": 29596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19511, "date_created": 1302973210.5410941, "message": "HN are there any iOS devs wanting to get to know more please feel free to drop a line here and I'll try to be as transparent as possible", "group_id": 95, "id": 712271}]