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In the 10 months since I started releasing on the market I've had an average of 400 downloads per month; and currently 1,100 active users.
I've literally made about $20 in admobs credit, it's been nothing to shout about but my apps were mainly just released to get my name on the market. I managed to get some contracts on the back of my own work.
I'm in the middle of developing my first major paid application. I'll stick it on iOS as well. Hopefully I will eventually no longer be reliant on contracted work.
I do enjoy my work. I'm at University full time and doing this part-time. It's the summer break right now and I'm working in my living room, in shorts and watching TV. It probably doesn't get much better. I'm hoping that once I graduate I will be able to do this full-time.
One man iOS dev here, not really by choice, I live in a mildly remote part of Alaska, which is not what I'd call a "technology hotbed" so finding co-devs is tough, unless you count my roommate who mostly just orders the pizzas. I'm not getting rich, but I'm allowed total creative freedom, and live simply so don't need to make much. Strange to think one can pull it off at all, but that's the internet for you.
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Sort by economic wealth, but really, why prioritize? It's only .07 per word to translate an app, less if you are creative.
Where do you get your translations done, if you don't mind me asking?
I've got a dev team of ten, working mostly on iOS and android game apps for hire. We've done 8 iOS/android games in the last couple years, some of them AAA, some not. Paid ($1) games of a decent quality typically generate sales between 40 and 100 thousand; and can do much better if 'everything goes right'. Development costs are roughly the same. For apps, seems around 75% of cost is on the engineering side. Design is…
I'm still learning mobile (iOS) development having got back to software development last year although I've been doing Rails contract work for much of the time. I released my first real experiment http://itunes.com/apps/fastlists (yes it's another lists app but it is currently free, with no ads and has a couple of useful features making it especially useful for reusable lists for shopping, packing etc. The design is…
I have not installed your app, but I am curious. How obvious is it to users that their usage is being "collected"?
Also, I would be really curious to hear how your pricing scheme works out. Please make a post when you have enough data to report on it.
You said you recently got back into software development. What were you doing in the mean time, and how long were you away from it?
One man iOS dev here, not really by choice, I live in a mildly remote part of Alaska, which is not what I'd call a "technology hotbed" so finding co-devs is tough, unless you count my roommate who mostly just orders the pizzas. I'm not getting rich, but I'm allowed total creative freedom, and live simply so don't need to make much. Strange to think one can pull it off at all, but that's the internet for you.
I'm still learning mobile (iOS) development having got back to software development last year although I've been doing Rails contract work for much of the time. I released my first real experiment http://itunes.com/apps/fastlists (yes it's another lists app but it is currently free, with no ads and has a couple of useful features making it especially useful for reusable lists for shopping, packing etc. The design is…
2) Privacy - No anonymous usage collection.(tier 1 price) I have not installed your app, but I am curious. How obvious is it to users that their usage is being "collected"? Also, I would be really curious to hear how your pricing scheme works out. Please make a post when you have enough data to report on it. You said you recently got back into software development. What were you doing in the mean time, and how long w…
The data that I currently plan to collect includes device type and software version, number of items in use, purchases they have made. I also plan try to analyse the extent to whether people are making use do nested lists or if that is an unnecessary complication. I may also log frequency of use and how much some particular features are used.
I do not intend to collect the contents of the lists or any personally identifiable information although I will create a unique ID for each device so that I can track usage over time.
I was a Product Planning Manager for Sony's TVs in Europe for about 4 years. I was working closely with engineers and in a technical area but was also working closely with the marketing teams and my main role was really business development. At first working with cable operators in Across Europe to get them on board with offering their services directly on the TV without using a STB (using a CI module which Digital TVs in Europe must support). Later it involved satellite and for the last 2 years it was mostly working with the channel owners and other content players to get them onto Sony's IP platform.
It was interesting and I enjoyed it but there was too much travel (a week in Tokyo 3 times a year plus probably 2 trips to Europe every month). It also started to feel slightly hopeless, even the dominant player in the TV business (Samsung) is barely making money and Sony isn't the leanest most nimble company and hadn't made a profit in TV for a number of years.
One man iOS dev here, not really by choice, I live in a mildly remote part of Alaska, which is not what I'd call a "technology hotbed" so finding co-devs is tough, unless you count my roommate who mostly just orders the pizzas. I'm not getting rich, but I'm allowed total creative freedom, and live simply so don't need to make much. Strange to think one can pull it off at all, but that's the internet for you.
I'm in Sitka. Where are you?