"When the motivation came, I decided to squeeze every last bit of it before it vanished again." Amen to this. I think this is a critical attribute of super productive people. Good work, and thanks for the great reminders!
4 apps, one weekend
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#12I have something similar to Do Something pending App Store review right now. Great execution!
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#13$25 a day is $600 a month. Not exactly "measly" for mostly passive income.
If he was living on $600/month, that is a pretty small amount.
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#14Congrats on shipping your apps! That's great.
Not sure if it's just me, but the "Do Something" app icon [1] looks a bit too heavily inspired by the Apple Trailers app icon [2], with gloss removed for iOS 7 (on iOS 7 itself there is no gloss although it's there in the iTunes link), no film roll in the middle, rotated 45º, and used round rects on the corners of the ticket.
[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/do-something-find-things-to/...
[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-movie-trailers/id4719...
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#16I'm surprised at how useful your four ideas were. Nicely done. Dumb question, but how hard was Do Something? I would figure whatever integration you would need would take a lot longer than 1/4 of a weekend.
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#17Any stats so far on the apps? What are your plans for promotion?
That's a good question. Rather than promoting 4 different apps, what I really want to do is throw these 4 fishing rods in the ocean and see what bites. Once I figure out which one I think has the most potential, I really want to spend more time on it, and spend time marketing and promoting.
Agreed.
99% of profitable iOS apps do little to no promotion. Instead, they're found via search or on the top lists.
Better to try a bunch of things, as you say, and then invest your time into improving whichever is already working best.
This is exactly what I did with my Spanish Bible apps.
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#18I'm surprised at how useful your four ideas were. Nicely done. Dumb question, but how hard was Do Something? I would figure whatever integration you would need would take a lot longer than 1/4 of a weekend.
Almost every app I've ever done has consisted of retrieving JSON data from some endpoint, parsing it, and throwing it up on a table view. So at this point, using AFNetworking, I can hook up to an API with no effort at all. That was actually the easiest part of the app. The difficult parts were the app related stuff - the transitions, loading, location services, categories, in app purchase, etc.
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#19I like the idea of recurring task lists, i.e. a group of tasks that belong to a template/type of event. We do this for event planning in asana, but do it manually.
This is a very powerful idea - just unearthed an old post for you: http://evhead.com/2008/09/processizer.html
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#20"When the motivation came, I decided to squeeze every last bit of it before it vanished again." Amen to this. I think this is a critical attribute of super productive people. Good work, and thanks for the great reminders!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!