[watwut]

Is that the usual quality of techcrunch articles?

OMG I just found out that people are writing simple free apps and some other people are trying to earn money on extremely simple apps?

I actually found all those flappy clones happening great. Of course there is nothing useful about them. It is just that I like idea of people building things just for fun and for the heck of it. Kind of like when musicians improvise together or when aspiring writer play those cooperative writing stories. Except with small simple games.

Basically, it is meme web 2.0 version.

[YooLi]

"I actually found all those flappy clones happening great."

Me too. I especially liked the clones that built upon the basic game play of Flappy Bird (single-finger control of vertical impulses) but added additional challenge, like Heli Math (solve math problems to fly through the gap).

[ganeumann]

No, many of their articles have more substance (I would say most, but I think it's physically impossible for one person to read most of their articles, they publish a lot of stuff.) I think this one was intended mainly to generate pageviews from HN.

I was especially amused at the line "A search in the iTunes App Store today reveals just what this latest gold rush looks like..." Of course, since these games are all free I don't think they're rushing towards a lot of gold.