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Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
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Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#102Now it is time to learn illustrator and photoshop.
Better yet, now is the time to create your own reusable Illustrator and Photoshop components, and write games that build them in to enable users to customize and create their own content. Oh, and 3D Studio Max, too. Not 100% of the features and complexity, just the 50% that you need 95% of the time. The same way many games and other apps use built-inn text editors to enable users to write their own text, instead of saying "oh just use Word for that".
Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely it matters for legal reasons? I thought that was what the parent was implying; he could get his games pulled for copyright infringement.
Note for readers: I edited my original comment just before Blahah's reply was written, and my edit makes it seem like they didn't read my comment. But in fact they had read an earlier version of it. So I figure I should mention that to avoid confusion... Anyway, it doesn't matter if his apps are taken down, because growing his skillset is the most important thing, not the apps themselves. No one will fine him or take…
Thanks for the explanation so I didn't look silly :). I agree with your main point - it's worth it if he gets to develop his skills faster.
Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I expected a response like this. I really shouldn't have implied that this tool isn't a programming tool, but I think there's a difference between this tool and some C library.
So what? OP said he made 30 apps this year. Which he did. Who cares how he made them. If he had hired someone out to make them, people would be fawning over him, telling him he's a business tycoon. I don't understand why you're so quick to try to shit on what he's doing, because you think you could do it in some arguably more "pure" manner, or whatever term you might use.
I wasn't shitting on the OP. That was never my intention, no matter how much you insist the contrary. And when did I suggest that I would do anything better or more pure? I'm simply responding to an implication that third-party code libraries and tools such as what the OP used are the same thing. I think they're not. Feel free to disagree all you like.
If you're just looking for an argument, look elsewhere.
Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I haven't developed any games I have created a RSA secure chatting social network website and app for it too which could communicate between each other using websockets and a node.JS server I would avoid talking like this. To me it sounds like you only vaguely know what you're talking about. To non-techies you sound like you're trying too hard. As someone who started freelancing as a sophomore in highschool I hope…
Okay that was over descriptive. I basically created a chatting platform that used Websockets (so it worked on the web instead of application only) and would send data from a PHP frontend to a node.JS backend (hosted in AWS) via SSL and RSA encryption (I used cryptico.JS to encrypt and decrypt). The node.JS server was running engine.io (base for socket.io). Also i'm sorry if it came off like I have a big ego!
PHP frontend? Just curious how that works...
Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#106One tip: Ignore everybody and keep creating. If I'd done that at 15, then I wouldn't have started to doubt myself and stop working on ideas that later turned out to be very prescient. The most important thing you should do is the thing that's most important to you. Be sure it's not defined by other people's opinions. There will always be people in life like the guy who replied "While it is impressive to see another 1…
This is great advice at any age not just 15.
Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#107C'mon! No one here read the sourcecode? It's made without any programming using this app: https://www.scirra.com/ ... still more games than i have done though :-P
I would like to see some of your work that is 100% yours and no libraries or anything else.
If you said that to a C programmer that would translate as: I would like to see you rewrite the C standard library in assembly then boot your own optimised C compiler.
Said C coder will be so incensed that they will suffer a stroke, then start speaking in LISP.
Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#108That's awesome, Keep it up! Did you make anything off of them?
Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#109Ok, first of all, congratulations! I remember being 15 and hacking away (It was Turbo Pascal for me). Ignore any naysayers that complain there is no code or it was done with a simple tool. Do what you like and enjoy.
But now on a more serious note, I'm about twice your age, so not too old to be screaming 'get of my lawn', but old enough to hopefully give you some advice that will resonate.
This projects mean an average of a game every two weeks, even if they are simple, I'm sure this is taking a lot of your time. I'm extrapolating here, so if I'm wrong just ignore me, but I'm assuming you are spending a lot of time doing these and not a lot of social activities. Please please please, do some socialisation with folks within the dev community and in your school and neighbourhood. I'm not going to say these are the best times of your life or whatnot, but believe it or not, when you are older and start looking for jobs, you will start understanding that social knowledge is as much, or more important that tech knowledge, and you will regret not developing those skills at younger age when it is easier to do so.
Again, good work, keep producing, but find some balance.
Re: Show HN: I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15
#110Jesus, this is impressive. When I was fifteen, I'm pretty sure my main accomplishment was hitting level 40 in Halo 2 matchmaking. You will probably get lots of valid and actionable advice about branching out to new platforms, focusing on one or two apps, or trying something new -- but more than anything else, keep building things! You've clearly got a ridiculously high level of aptitude and passion.
When I was 15 my parents hated computers. However, I had hot girlfriends, where one of the best player of my basketball team and was having really too much fun.
I don't regret nothing, but I'd sure love being able to write code at that age - If that would make me a better programmer today, which means that I would have to continue writing code for another 17 years :-)
Congrats to the kid.