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appirater
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arashpayan / appirater

appirater

A utility that reminds your iPhone app's users to review the app.

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What it is

A utility that reminds your iPhone app's users to review the app.

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There were a few recent articles on this on HN, you might find some great projects if you do a search. You could also start your own tiny project, a lot of people post code for…

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-04-29 05:10:47 UTC to 2016-10-03 19:46:45 UTC.

01232011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016

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20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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apayan·Oct 3, 2016
Appirater Description: A library for your iOS app that gently reminds your best users to review the app. The project has over 4000 stars on GitHub and is widely used in lots of popular apps, however, I don't have much time to devote to maintenance/improvement. It's a small library, so it's easy to jump into. The functionality is limited (but very useful), so there's not a lot of need for constant changes to it either. What to do this month: Fix compiler warnings brought on by the release of Xcode 8. Skills: Objective-C GitHub: https://github.com/arashpayan/appirater/issues/242 How to help: Send me (Arash) an email (arash -at- ara.sh) and let me know you want to help out. I'm looking for a long term maintainer for the project, so if you can provide a couple good pull requests, I'd be happy to give commit access. License: MIT/X11 Thanks for
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In Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
tstegart·Jul 24, 2012Recommendation phrase
There were a few recent articles on this on HN, you might find some great projects if you do a search. You could also start your own tiny project, a lot of people post code for common problems that other people can reuse in their own projects. For example, I'm thinking of using this in our project: https://github.com/arashpayan/appirater/ Its just the sort of thing I love the open source community for and makes my day.
In Ask HN: Best way to get involved with open source?
jcampbell1·Apr 29, 2011
You are right. But keep in mind, those pathological customers are everywhere. Reviews are a big factor when deciding between competitive products, and your competitors will face the same pathological customers. ReadItLater's free version is rated 1 star less than the pro version. All of the 1 star reviewers appear to be worth ignoring. I'd install something like appirater to try to drown out the morons, and boost ratings. https://github.com/arashpayan/appirater/
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