Sorry, I wasn't clear. The "us" is the father [me] and son [13yo in article]. HN has been HUGE in his development. We are forever grateful to everyone here in HN.
oh, I see, I have no idea how I read it the other way around. I thought the pitch was that HN had introduced these things to the world and now HN had introduced your sons app to the world. woops.
Oh, come on! How old are you (pun intended). I know I'd have been deliriously happy if any of my apps had gotten a write up like this when I had been 13. Even in a local newspaper.
Not that I managed to publish any marketable apps at that age.
"I know I'd have been deliriously happy if any of my apps had gotten a write up like this when I had been 13"
Actually I can assure you that there is a inverse relationship between age and the chance of getting a newspaper to write an article about something you have done. "17 year old gets into medical school" is barely interesting. "13 year old gets into medical school" is definitely interesting. Same with business, computers, or just about anything.
The angel offer came from a retired CEO of a public company that saw the article. I posted that as the first comment, but there is no way to make that comment sticky to the top. I see it below.
I had a talk with my son. He said he wasn't ready. I agreed. The angel said that whenever he feels he is ready, offer stands. Enough to put a structure around him and allow him to focus on products. One manager, one sales/bizdev...enough to cover their salaries for a year or two.
What he REALLY wants to do is work for Notch, or some company that is doing a fun and interesting games or educational stuff. He likes team projects. Anyone need a 13yo beta tester that is into the digital game/educational world?
Very cool--I'm jealous of what a great environment teenagers have for programming today. When I was 13 I was hacking up QBasic games I downloaded from local bulletin boards. A teenager today can publish Android apps to impress their friends and make some spending money!
There was an old dinosaur pc game from the '90s that has since open sourced. He started from there, but opened each audio file in some application that allowed him to modify each. Some needed truncating, others attenuation, increased amplitude, etc. It was fun watching him mess with the analog signals. There was also a hard limit of media total filesize.
The subject of the article is a product of HN:
HN introduced us to Khan Academy many years ago, and it his math and [one of the] CS sources.
HN introduced us to many learning sources for Java [Programr, Think Like a CS, etc].
HN introduced us to Pygame.
HN introduced us to ocw.mit.edu.
HN introduced us to Minecraft when it was in early beta.
etc.....