Alex Curelea’s Dev Log

At least in Canada. #1 in free music apps, #9 in overall top free apps, #17 paid music apps. In the US, #6 free music app and #16 paid. Is this thing unstoppable?

I just talked to the LyricFind guys, and after only two days in the app store, it looks like the LyricFind apps are doing great!
The free version is already at #9 in the Music category, with great reviews so far. The paid version is no slouch either, currently sitting around #54.
It’s a great app, [...]

At long last, Google released the Google Analytics API.  The timing couldn’t be better, since I was just trying to get to some information through screen scraping… which is never fun.
The API is pretty easy to use, and other than a typo which slowed me down way too much, it didn’t take long to write [...]

This is a great presentation I found on Hacker News:
http://www.slideshare.net/stephenpa/the-art-science-of-seductive-interactions?type=presentation
The presentation gives some pointers on how to seduce users to explore and maybe fall in love with your app.  It echoes a lot of the lessons I picked up developing Facebook apps.

Welcome to alexc.me.  This site’s aim will be to collect together all the various projects I’ve worked on, and to serve as a platform for sharing any information that others might find interesting or useful.
I’ve worked on standalone projects, on Facebook apps, and on iPhone apps, in Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and of course [...]