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Hey,

I've recently created a few Android apps to learn Spanish and French. The app basically has a long list of words, it dictates you a word in english, and then says it in Spanish. When I wanted to learn Spanish, I found that this technique was really helpful to quickly learn vocabulary, and works while I'm commuting, which saves a lot of time.

Now this app is pretty original, and is very simple to use, but as there is tons of language learning apps in the Android market, my app is always listed like 20-30th in the list when searching. I would like to know if there is an easy way to promote my apps. I've previously tried to promote some apps on Facebook by paying 30$, but it never compensated for the price gained afterwards. I've created some free versions so that people can try it out, but still not a lot of purchases.

I would like to know if someone has managed to successfully market their apps, without paying 1000$ out of the pocket ? I'm not looking to make a salary with these apps, but at least compensating me for the time I spend programming them :).

Thank you for any help. I'm sure this topic will help other people discover some tricks!

Here are my apps if someone is interested:

Spanish: Free: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pervychine.learn_spanish_lite Paid: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pervychine.spanishincar

French: Free: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pervychine.learn_french_lite Paid: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pervychine.learn_french

Hey everyone,

I have spend some of my free time of the last year and a half working on a cool project: Readbo ( http://readbo.com ). I loved using Google Reader, but I always thought it wasn't being updated quickly enough, and wanted some new features. So I decided to create something that would be better than Google Reader and at the same time make Google Reader users happy.

Readbo is an RSS reader, but it also has filters to filter out what you don't want to see. You can also aggregate Twitter and Facebook. I personally love this feature. Even if you don't use RSS reader's, having Facebook or Twitter in Readbo can be pretty interesting.

My project is still in beta, and still far from where I want it to be. But I'm sure a lot of you might like it in its current state. Probably a lot of bugs will be found!

Readbo allows you to import your Google Reader subscriptions for thoses who want to try it out.

I'm currently limiting registration with invitation codes, this runs on a single server which could die if too many people register.

You can register using this invitation code : HACKERNEWS ( 500 registrations allowed). I do hope this won't kill my server, currently I have only tried with 5 users, close enought, we will see. GO TO: http://readbo.com

Readbo also has likes for RSS feeds. And trending items are posted here: http://readbo.com/trending

I still have a ton of feature that I would like to create for Readbo:

Sharing/retweeting Add Google+ Better filter management (I'm not a big fan of the current system) Better landing page design Premium accounts Fix bugs More user friendly iPhone/Android app API (this is far away)

I've been working 100% by myself on this app, If a lot of users are interested by it, I will try to monetize it, and create a real startup out of it (paying designers, and developers). Currently I have no where near the money for that.

Known bugs:

wrong count sometimes appears for feeds If you add a feed that is being used by someone else, you'll get a list from all the feeds since 20 days of that feed

Also my privacy policy is ugly, I've used a tool to self generate it, I don't have the money to pay a lawyer for now. Here is a quick resume of what happens to your data:

All feeds, facebook data etc... is kept in the database for caching. It is cleared either if you delete your account, either if you delete the feed or if the data is older than 20 days. If you delete your account, the account is disabled but only for 15 days, and no other data than the account username password email is kept.

Thank you for your time testing the app!

Here is the link: http://readbo.com (CODE: HACKERNEWS) 500 invites

Hey,

I have been working on a personal project for a long time. I would like to maybe create a startup with it in the future, but I currently don't have the money. I wanted to know, is it possible to create a website under my name, register my gmail account with an Individual account on Adsense, put advertising on my website and get paid under my name. And then maybe in 6 months, create a startup under the name of this project and create another business Adsense account ?

Its just that I would like to see if the startup can work at all before paying all the fees for incorporating it. Currently the server price is high enough for me.

EDIT: I'm working in the US

EDIT2: And if it is not possible, can I release the application without any income, and then open my startup after the website was running for a few months.

Thank you

Hey, Me and my wife will be starting a startup in France, with a product called iCheckBank. Basically it is an application for mobile phones where users can view their bank accounts directly on their phone (Currently Android only). And we would want it for it to be as cool as Mint.com is in the US (Mint is US and Canada only).

We have only 2 bank accounts for now, the app is available here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pervychine.icheckbank (HSBC France and La Banque Postal)

I'm not asking you to review this product or anything, I'm just asking for a little help voting for our app. Our school (a computer science school SUPINFO.com) is voting for the best project from our school. If we succeed we will get the money for our startup.

All I'm asking for is a like on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ICheckBank-Supinfo-Community-Awards/125327007566750 (You can remove it in a week, it is just for the votes)

Our school has several rounds of voting, and we have until the 24th to proove we can get the most likes. The next round will be a more interesting round where judges will decide the most interesting project, but I just didn't know where to ask for the facebook likes.

Anyways thanks for everyone who spends 30 secondes liking our page.