We need more mobile metrics innovation so I welcome this.

Coincidentally just today I released an open source library on iDevRecipes to do smarter metrics. My approach is to use base classes.

To achieve the no extra code part, is the SDK using swizzling‎?

You can easily intercept all UI events via UIWindow or UIApplication subclass, no swizzling required. I do this routinely to detect when a user is idle: no events - no activity.

more likely they are installing a custom responder. At least, I think it might be viable with that

> To achieve the no extra code part, is the SDK using swizzling‎?

They must be, which is a serious reliability/stability/correctness issue in its own right.

OK, so there is gratuitous use of push notifications, but it's also unfair to compare push usage between a utility app and apps that are trying to convince you to try something new.

How about we compare the pushes to email campaigns by companies?

I for one am constantly amazed at how much users tolerate these emails.

So I say, yes, make it easier to stop the pushes just like it's easy to unsubscribe from email campaigns. It could be as easy as making sure users know that the pushes stop when the app is uninstalled.

But I think outside of other app developers and the tech community, users may not feel as strongly that this is abuse.

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Chad, thanks for the feedback.

I was already planning to do the popping of each menu button in a follow up post.

You're right about the menu appearing underneath the tweet. Luckily doing it that way is just as easy as having them animate together. I'll look at modifying the code to handle both animation styles.

The bounce is already implemented in the current code.

I agree with you that Tweetie's implementation is well thought out. The goal is to have a 100% faithful recreation that is indistinguishable from the original

ah yes, i see the bounce code now. i was half way through reading the source when you replied :) good on ya.

i was searching for a resource that explained exactly this swipe menu technique for an app i just submitted, so i'm glad there finally is one for others to use as well.

again, great post. looking forward to the follow ups! i really dig your blog, btw. very helpful and clear. i just happened to have spent a lot of time with tweetie and its nuances since i modeled a bunch of UI effects it has into the Notifo app.

Chad, the code now puts the menu behind the cell and only animates the cell in and out while leaving the menu at x offset 0. Thanks for pointing this out!

Thanks for the recommendation! iDevRecipes is my blog. I welcome any feedback.

It'd be interesting to hear the technical details of how the switcheroo was accomplished

Check web logs for regular visits from a specific IP address. Setup alternate site (eg: on a different port) and use firewall rules to direct http traffic from that IP to that port. Make a small change to the site and verify that the copied site is altered. Then have fun.

It would be simpler to handle it in the application.

if ($ip == 'XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX') { require 'poison.html'; exit; }

Setting up a new site is trivial to do and allows you to mess around with it without modifying your main site... which may not be so simple as your example if it's based on a CMS or other framework.

Agreed. The vigilante content of the switcheroo is whatever. I want to know how he actually pulled it off. The not-so-over-the-top-vigilante-ish alternatives are pretty endless.

Looks nice, but it consistently crashes Safari on my iPad 1 on every blog I tried.

This Twitter list is auto generated using the YCPages directory: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2273898

Thanks for putting the info together! I scraped your pages and created a Twitter list of all the YC founders: http://twitter.com/#!/boctor/ycombinator

I already have a couple of Twitter name updates: @kovasboguta doesn't exist @dariusmonsef is now @bubs

Thanks boctor. I have updated the accounts now. @kovasboguta is @kovasb now.

Why do a couple of articles in that feed say either "Unable to parse this page for content" (daringfireball.net) or "unable to retrieve full-text content" (nytimes.com)?

it's still just a weekend project, but if everyone keeps throwing love at it like this, it might be more than a weekend project. he's working on it now. :)