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What is your plan for the next week, month, quarter? What are your targets? How many months can you survive without income?
Could you not have remained employed by building the foundations of your new business?
Will you be sharing your journey?
>I’m going to make, market, and hustle my iPhone apps like my life depends on it Why can't I find a link or description to them anywhere in your post? I’m the breadwinner with a wife and daughter to support, My wife is due to have our second child in 8 weeks, We’re currently building a house, and the builder’s bills will soon arrive I may be the only person to say it, but I don't think quitting your day job at this t…
> I’m going to make, market, and hustle my iPhone apps like my life depends on it
Sounds like his child's life will quite literally depend on it.
My advice to someone looking to start something on the side: don't quit your job, but find a low-stress job at a large corporation with normal 8 hour workdays and a short commute.
>I’m going to make, market, and hustle my iPhone apps like my life depends on it Why can't I find a link or description to them anywhere in your post? I’m the breadwinner with a wife and daughter to support, My wife is due to have our second child in 8 weeks, We’re currently building a house, and the builder’s bills will soon arrive I may be the only person to say it, but I don't think quitting your day job at this t…
You're totally right. And also, some have pointed out (quite correctly) that amy and patrick recommend starting out on the side, so let me explain further: * I have enough savings to last a few months if i sell my motorbike * I'm reasonably well connected and, if all goes badly, getting an ios contract/job in a few months time won't be hard * I already have a dozen apps on the app store, bringing in between $100-$150…
Congrats on the success of your apps on the app store and good luck with your upcoming venture.
What does patio11 do now? Consulting?
I think this is his latest venture: https://www.appointmentreminder.org/ Basically following the 37signals model: subscriptions-based SAAS. Pretty neat stuff - i'd do that in a heartbeat over iOS apps if my ruby-on-rails skills weren't so rusty.
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The #1 problem with the app store for a developer is that it's a total black box. I have no idea how my users find my apps, how they choose them over other apps, or even which aspects of my apps page are most or least effective in enticing them. Contrast this with the kind of insanely detailed analytics you can get on the web now and it's like flying blind. I suspect most of my users have found my apps via posts I've…
I see your point about the black box. But, I have this feeling that maybe the sheer numbers of people that enter the mobile app funnel at all far outweigh those on the web. It seems like the difference between having a big shop on a quiet backstreet and having a tiny shack on a busy high street. You can watch every move of every visitor with a dozen CCTV cameras in your backstreet shop, but the footfall is all on the…
Just being in the app store may have been worth something a few years ago but now with users searching through 600,000 apps with Apple's crappy search UI I don't think it counts for much any more. For example, for the Technology Review having a professionally designed app in the store was worth 353 subscriptions:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/427785/why-publishers-d...
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Don't quit now, generate ideas while at job, start research and then plan accordingly.
There are so many incubators that could later help with your idea/prototype.
Just my 3c Nilesh
I built infocaptor while consulting
What does patio11 do now? Consulting?
Sorry, just kidding. The center of gravity of my business is a moving target. As of present, it is consulting, largely on marketing topics for software companies. Not where I want to be for forever but, well, wedding to pay for.
Appointment Reminder is coming along decently well -- the enterprise pipeline is starting to bear fruit, finally, and the self-serve is quietly growing every month. BCC remains my fun little laboratory where lab accidents can't kill anybody. I will probably have some sort of productized version of consulting services available sometime after the wedding -- maybe August, who knows.