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Reminds me, I should write my own story of how I made $190 on the App Store while exercising 15 years of coding experience.
He made something people want. That trumps programming excellence.
Perhaps the revenue will trend upwards ... but if we put our team on an application like this and only saw $20k in revenue in 10 months, we'd be out of business.
The most important part is not that you made $19,000 while teaching yourself how to code, but that you are actually making the world a better place. I would angel fund this idea (if I had the money) the minute I would read gives a voice to anyone who cannot speak. I would venture fund your product that minute I would read replaces a $7,000+ medical device that is bulky and difficult to use.
Here's another example, an app that replaces whatever gadget piano tuners used to carry: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tunelab-piano-tuner/id3355683...
Whoa, Nathan Barry was my first boss. He was 19 and designing websites—I was 14-15 writing PHP CMSs. We worked in an incredibly hot 2nd story office above a bike shop in Boise Idaho. Good times. Glad to see you've found success in the iOS realm, while helping improve people's lives in a real tangible way.
Dustin, those were good times. Glad to see you frequent HN. Hope everything is going well for you now.
Great story and way to find a niche that was unserved. There are so many out there (niches that is) with archaic products/services that are begging for right person to come along and improve them.
Good luck with the dedicated venture!
Reminds me, I should write my own story of how I made $190 on the App Store while exercising 15 years of coding experience.
He made something people want. That trumps programming excellence.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
He made something people want. That trumps programming excellence.
Keep in mind -- $20k over 10 months is a pretty low return on the investment involved in an application. Perhaps the revenue will trend upwards ... but if we put our team on an application like this and only saw $20k in revenue in 10 months , we'd be out of business.
Unfortunately that's not true for good programmers that suck at design.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
He made something people want. That trumps programming excellence.
Keep in mind -- $20k over 10 months is a pretty low return on the investment involved in an application. Perhaps the revenue will trend upwards ... but if we put our team on an application like this and only saw $20k in revenue in 10 months , we'd be out of business.
It might not be the kind of project a team or company would take on because their main goal is profit but for an individual it is great.