Offer HN: My experience in iOS app development

My name is Mike, and I run an indie iOS development shop called Pocket Sevens. I have a few small apps I have released on my own, but my main business is freelance and contract work. I run several projects, for a variety of different clients, in a variety of different areas. My most solid areas involve working with web services, animations and custom UI. The only thing I don't really know is OpenGL ES, so games are pretty much out.

I've enjoyed reading HN for a while now, and I'm fond of the intelligent culture that seems to have evolved here. I have been looking for a way to give back a bit, and to expand my technical writing skills as well. This is as much for me as it is for you :) I have at least some expertise in this area, and I'm happy to share.

So if you have a question about anything iOS related, I'm willing to answer to the best of my ability. If you have a piece of code that's troubling you and you'd like another set of eyes on it, let me know. If you have an idea for an app and want some advice or direction, I'm happy to help. (I'm unable to agree to any NDAs in this case, but I would consider any communication private; nor do I have any intention of stealing any ideas. I have plenty of my own that I should be working on instead anyway!)

If you're interested in taking me up on this offer, you can comment here, or if it's more private, sensitive or just easier for you, you can email me at hn@pocketsevens.net. I'll reply as soon as I can.

Some. They can be… complicated. Simple migrations, like adding an attribute to an entity is pretty simple, but if you're making large changes to a model they can get hairy.

Unfortunately this is one of those things I can't speak to very well, because I wouldn't consider my marketing efforts for my own apps to be successful. For me, it's been trying to build the best apps I can, and then send them along to friends and other developers I've met and hope they get some use out of it and spread the word. So far, nothing has taken off, but my focus is mostly freelance at this stage anyway so I haven't pushed much. My free to try "Safari to iPhone/iPad" app, Previously, has about 10k downloads, 5k active users, and a substantially lower number of paid upgrades to the full version.

if you need someone "to make a game for iphone" we can team up

Thanks. I looked at cocos2d a long while ago but never put anything into it. Maybe I should look again.