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Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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ryanSrich wrote: post #66
ThomPete wrote: post #31

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I tried odesk, elance etc. the whole sherade and they all ended up not delivering. I still hang out on IRC and through the #macdev channel via one of the moderators i was put in contact with Jimmy. Just goes to show, few things beat personal recommendations. But please if you have any work please help out Jimmy he is a really good developer just caught in a shitty situation.

As a designer learning iOS to build an app I designed, why didn't you develop the app yourself? Do you feel like the time lost learning OSX development would have offset the potential earnings of the app? My impression when shopping around for a developer was that to get something like ghostnote built you'd have to spend around $50k+. This ultimately led me to just trying to build the app myself, but I'm finding that…

Currently I am also spending time learn iOS to build an app. And its a long arduous task, specially if someone has never coded ever. Personally, last I wrote a piece of code was 3+ years ago, while in school.

I haven't specifically shopped for a developer cause forget $50k, I can't even spend $5k. So I guess sometimes, its not really about offsetting your potential earnings, than it is about whether you could afford one at all.

Still it will be interesting if ThomPete ever publishes his earning report of sorts :)

PS: Just wondering any specific course/book you are referring for iOS?

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ryanSrich »

ThomPete wrote: post #72
ryanSrich wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a designer learning iOS to build an app I designed, why didn't you develop the app yourself? Do you feel like the time lost learning OSX development would have offset the potential earnings of the app? My impression when shopping around for a developer was that to get something like ghostnote built you'd have to spend around $50k+. This ultimately led me to just trying to build the app myself, but I'm finding that…

I have been circling around this contextual idea for several years now and in fact this is just a small part of what I ultimately want to build. It sounds simple but it's much harder than one would expect. I hired several developers most couldn't get it done and I had even talked to several developers about doing it as a split deal. Its one thing to build an app that does what the framework is build for, but we are d…

> I do know how to program just not well enough to even remotely begin to solve some of the things you have to solve to make this work.

Yeah I'm in the same boat. The app I'm building has some really complex interactions that involve building a "mini" language within the app. For example:

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^ It's something like IFTT meets the simplicity of a markup language. So the user would actually be able to define these workflows much like writing simple jquery.

There's more to it than that but as you can see it extends far beyond basic iOS application building.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete »

thisisit wrote: post #111
ryanSrich wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a designer learning iOS to build an app I designed, why didn't you develop the app yourself? Do you feel like the time lost learning OSX development would have offset the potential earnings of the app? My impression when shopping around for a developer was that to get something like ghostnote built you'd have to spend around $50k+. This ultimately led me to just trying to build the app myself, but I'm finding that…

Currently I am also spending time learn iOS to build an app. And its a long arduous task, specially if someone has never coded ever. Personally, last I wrote a piece of code was 3+ years ago, while in school. I haven't specifically shopped for a developer cause forget $50k, I can't even spend $5k. So I guess sometimes, its not really about offsetting your potential earnings, than it is about whether you could afford…

I think if you have an interesting problem it's easier to get a developer on board than if you have something thats a lot of work but tedious to do.

Also I always offer 50/50 split after I have recouped my investment. This is to pay for upgrading the app (an there will be many updates after launch believe me).

If the app is interesting then they might be a little more willing to invest their time too.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ryanSrich »

thisisit wrote: post #111
ryanSrich wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a designer learning iOS to build an app I designed, why didn't you develop the app yourself? Do you feel like the time lost learning OSX development would have offset the potential earnings of the app? My impression when shopping around for a developer was that to get something like ghostnote built you'd have to spend around $50k+. This ultimately led me to just trying to build the app myself, but I'm finding that…

Currently I am also spending time learn iOS to build an app. And its a long arduous task, specially if someone has never coded ever. Personally, last I wrote a piece of code was 3+ years ago, while in school. I haven't specifically shopped for a developer cause forget $50k, I can't even spend $5k. So I guess sometimes, its not really about offsetting your potential earnings, than it is about whether you could afford…

I'm working through this course - http://bitfountain.io/courses/complete-ios8

It's really comprehensive but absolutely massive. If you have a demanding full time job it could easily take you a year to get through the full course.

> I haven't specifically shopped for a developer cause forget $50k, I can't even spend $5k.

The problem isn't really the initial dollar amount, it's spending what you think you can make back on the application in a reasonable amount of time (6 months). If you can't make $50k on an app then why spend the money to have it made?

On the other hand if you can spend 3-4 hours per week learning how to build the app then what you make back is really whatever you value your time at minus the upside of learning a new skill.

The problem is that it takes years of experience using these tools and programming in order to make anything complex. I'm learning that the hard way.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by amelius »

saralily wrote: post #95
amelius wrote: post #89

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Question, though. What if your notes are too context specific. So, for example, the note would bind to the specific file you are viewing in vim, whereas the contents of the note would be helpful for any file opened in vim?

From the video it looks like you can have a note specific to a terminal window open to vim.

But how do you specify at what level the note should bind?

Sometimes, you'd want it at the file-level, sometimes at the vim-level, and sometimes at the terminal-level, I suppose.

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