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Emoji icons, Fingerprint Security Pro, and a Flashlight. While I think there is plenty of room left in the App Store for innovative, well-polished apps (e.g. Paper's recent success), you're not going to be making any money selling this crap in a sea of 5,000 other clones.
If Tim Ferriss wasn't obnoxious before, he sure is now. His prescription is: * Look for "market trends" (As opposed to building things you know about and understand, and focusing on great products) * Treat "your programmer" like a house builder you'd contract with * Pay rock-bottom prices * Make everyone sign an NDA so they don't "steal" your brilliant idea Ugh. I hope this gold rush ends soon.
"Here’s my three-step process during the coding phase:
1. Icon—Ask the programmer to create and deliver the icon of your app."
Right...
I bet you can still make a lot of money using this method if you focus on some emerging trends though. Look how many One Direction apps are out there now. I counted 38 results after searching "One Direction". If you get in early, you can make off with a few 10s of thousands.
It is easy to interview a successful app developer out of the sea of unsuccessful ones, just like Tim Ferriss did.
Disclaimer: I had to google what One Direction is (NKOTB was hot when I was growing up).
If Tim Ferriss wasn't obnoxious before, he sure is now. His prescription is: * Look for "market trends" (As opposed to building things you know about and understand, and focusing on great products) * Treat "your programmer" like a house builder you'd contract with * Pay rock-bottom prices * Make everyone sign an NDA so they don't "steal" your brilliant idea Ugh. I hope this gold rush ends soon.
"oDesk— Its work diary feature tracks the hours your programmer is working for you and takes screenshots of the programmer’s desktop at certain time intervals."
and
"Below is a screencast on how to upload an app to the App Store. As you’ll see, it’s a fairly confusing and tedious process. Best to leave this task to your programmers"
I don't know how Ferriss successfully appointed himself some kind of tech guru, but he seems to have convinced people he deserves this pulpit where he doles out tech advice. People take him seriously, which is fascinating.
I'd never answer a giant list of "interview questions" and certainly wouldn't complete a "Hello World" task for a short-term, low four-figure job. I can show you live apps I've already built; if that's not good enough, we don't have anything else to discuss. (Side note: "creating/delivering your app’s icon" = spec work! NOOOOPE.)
Jobs like these are the ones that drag down the mobile marketplace. Shit apps made for shit pay by developers willing to work for table scraps. Good icon development is an art. Check out the work by The Iconfactory, for example. The fact that the employer treats it like an also-ran is another gigantic red flag.
"Disqualify anyone who is not willing to jump on a Skype call." For a short-term, low-paying job? You want me to break the flow of my day and blow an hour of my time on maybe satisfying your absurd needs? I'll disqualify you, brah.
(Sorry to rant, but, I just feel like we should all have more self-respect than to take jobs like that.)
Isn't this "create the next Instagram" like "create the next Facebook"?