Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)

Post by scarejunba » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 7:17 AM UTC

9nGQluzmnq3M wrote: post #17

rolltiide wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is amazing. One thing I often see is that enthusiasts and professionals spend too much of their life and energy working with an inferior set of tools such that they are very dismissive of people expressing themselves faster with a better set of tools, solely because the discipline is no longer required I am personally all for people being able to express themselves more effectively

As an enthusiast and a professional, I see a lot of people spending more time building a "better" set of tools and/or arguing about the merits of various trendy tools (hello HN) than actually writing code. If all you ever do is the same kind of thing over and over again (say, build CRUD web apps with the same stack), then sure, go nuts and optimize so you can deploy with a single button press from your IDE. But if yo…

Post by TheSpiceIsLife » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 7:19 AM UTC

lerxst00 wrote: post #26

liquidise wrote: post #2

> “Snaplight serves an extremely niche need: mine.” There is a subtle brilliance in this sentence. With this recognition comes the permission to not try adding a mountain of features and complicating matters. Build something you will use. Solve a problem you have. Enjoy the process and accept the vulnerability that comes with shipping something to the world. Chances are good things will come of it.

I recently had a similar experience: I watch a lot of YouTube videos and I like reading through the comments. Often, comments quote specific timestamps from the video and I would find it a pain to keep scrolling between the comment section at the bottom of the page and the video at the top and then find the specific time in the video that the comment was talking about. So, I created a Chrome extension that surfaces Y…

Post by TheSpiceIsLife » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 7:24 AM UTC

mister_hn wrote: post #19

_-___________-_ wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a strange statement. It's a very simple app, which specific guidelines do you think should have taken significant time for him to write code that complies to? In my experience the guidelines are mostly common sense once you get used to the "Apple way", and are straightforward to comply with, especially if you're already familiar with them (OP had submitted several apps before).

still, claiming to hacking a mobile app together in one hour is something strange as well. Does the "hour of code" includes setting up project in the IDE, setting a repo, testing it, making it AppStore-ready? Options are: a. you have already the code somewhere (own sources, StackOverflow, GitHub, etc.) b. you are bluffing

Post by Vinnl » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 7:31 AM UTC

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #35

personjerry wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chances are NOT good that things will come of it. There's a million useless projects for every one post like this. There's a lot more work than just building it.

On the other hand, you do have to be in it to win it .

Post by bengale » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 7:36 AM UTC

mister_hn wrote: post #19

_-___________-_ wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a strange statement. It's a very simple app, which specific guidelines do you think should have taken significant time for him to write code that complies to? In my experience the guidelines are mostly common sense once you get used to the "Apple way", and are straightforward to comply with, especially if you're already familiar with them (OP had submitted several apps before).

still, claiming to hacking a mobile app together in one hour is something strange as well. Does the "hour of code" includes setting up project in the IDE, setting a repo, testing it, making it AppStore-ready? Options are: a. you have already the code somewhere (own sources, StackOverflow, GitHub, etc.) b. you are bluffing