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Amazing. I'm so glad someone coded this. The price is a bit high for our institution(a struggling community hospital with 10 ICU beds) but hopefully I can get IT to consider it in our budget. The machine we use is a one-off and rarely works properly. I'm embarrassed to say that most of the time we avoid communicating with patients that are intubated. Coding a replacement has been on my to-do list for the last 2 month…
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He made something people want. That trumps programming excellence.
Totally get it. I'm very happy for him, and I'm fully aware of why I only made $190 :) As the parent of an autistic child, I'm really happy that app authors like this can disrupt entrenched and overpriced industries and make tech like this available to a lot more people. Someone will eventually compete with him too (App Stores totally grease the wheels for competition) and then consumers will benefit even more.
It's a genuine question, because I do it all the times as well and then, when I realize it to late, I wonder why I didn't think about it in the first place. I would like to know if there is a pattern or something.
Amazing. I'm so glad someone coded this. The price is a bit high for our institution(a struggling community hospital with 10 ICU beds) but hopefully I can get IT to consider it in our budget. The machine we use is a one-off and rarely works properly. I'm embarrassed to say that most of the time we avoid communicating with patients that are intubated. Coding a replacement has been on my to-do list for the last 2 month…
Please get in touch with me (nathan@thinklegend.com).
A good designer can score on the Appstore even if he is a novice programmer. Unfortunately that's not true for good programmers that suck at design.
Maybe. Though Apple gives you a lot of tools to help you make good (though simple) looking applications. UIKit is pretty detailed. Here is my simple design advice if you don't know how to design: * Use the provided UI elements, they look great. * Choose a primary color and an accent color, don't get carried away. * Make sure everything lines up. Choose a number (10 pts) and align everything off of that. Aligning your…
Though my philosophy is to learn both.
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Totally get it. I'm very happy for him, and I'm fully aware of why I only made $190 :) As the parent of an autistic child, I'm really happy that app authors like this can disrupt entrenched and overpriced industries and make tech like this available to a lot more people. Someone will eventually compete with him too (App Stores totally grease the wheels for competition) and then consumers will benefit even more.
If it makes you feel any better I wrote another simple app and have only made $15 from it.
ROFL!
edit: Just adding the name in case anyone wants to buy it; Calc41C. The source is up on github.com/watmough
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For 1 guy coding alone that is a good return. $2000 per month doing something you enjoy and that is changing peoples lives is great. 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.
Our average individual software engineer salary is around $10k/month, not factoring in insurance, payroll taxes, office space expenses, etc.
Also, I doubt you would pay a guy just getting started learning objective-c $10k/month :)
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For 1 guy coding alone that is a good return. $2000 per month doing something you enjoy and that is changing peoples lives is great. 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.
Our average individual software engineer salary is around $10k/month, not factoring in insurance, payroll taxes, office space expenses, etc.
Also my Objective-c skills are not worth anywhere close to $10k per month. Though someday I'll be a good programmer.
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Totally get it. I'm very happy for him, and I'm fully aware of why I only made $190 :) As the parent of an autistic child, I'm really happy that app authors like this can disrupt entrenched and overpriced industries and make tech like this available to a lot more people. Someone will eventually compete with him too (App Stores totally grease the wheels for competition) and then consumers will benefit even more.
May I ask you why, being an experienced developer with an autistic child that know the actual state of the industry, you overlooked this opportunity? It's a genuine question, because I do it all the times as well and then, when I realize it to late, I wonder why I didn't think about it in the first place. I would like to know if there is a pattern or something.
But I sympathize with your general lament over "why didn't I think of that?" Haven't we all experienced that SO many times?
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.