Personal attacks are a bad look. This sort of nitpicky comment is exactly why people stress about putting stuff on the Internet.
It's not an attack, it's just a statement. If one purpose is to appear employable, he should not mention that it took him 6 months to write it because that is just too long.
It isn’t his full time job. He was doing it as a side project
He’s on a 3 person podcast that could very well gross over $850K a year - 3 ad reads * 5500 * 52 weeks a year [1]. I wouldn’t make doing an app a high priority either.
It's one thing to "write an app" and something else completely to bring it to a standard consumable by lay users. Having published and maintained an app that is in active use by even a couple hundred users gives you an advantage in employability and quite a big one at that. Your post makes it seem like you have neither published an app yourself nor hired single devs who have, and it's easy to not appreciate.
I've been a professional iOS developer for a decade. 6 months is way too long for that app. My very first app took 10 weeks, including learning to program, and it was more complex than MaskerAid. And better looking, was even featured in the app store in a few countries.
Well then - congratulations! You are an outlier.
From my experience significantly less than 5% of iOS/Android devs have created a somewhat popular app, and maintained it for some time.
It's one thing to "write an app" and something else completely to bring it to a standard consumable by lay users. Having published and maintained an app that is in active use by even a couple hundred users gives you an advantage in employability and quite a big one at that. Your post makes it seem like you have neither published an app yourself nor hired single devs who have, and it's easy to not appreciate.
I've been a professional iOS developer for a decade. 6 months is way too long for that app. My very first app took 10 weeks, including learning to program, and it was more complex than MaskerAid. And better looking, was even featured in the app store in a few countries.
I just took a look at your website, and your profile there, such as it is, it says you “built product at Apple”. Not sure what that means, though it implies you worked at apple, meanwhile your LinkedIn profile only lists your finance and environmental industry positions, so not really sure what to make of that. Regardless you appear to be a 0.01%er congrats, but no need to talk down to others.
Yes and no; there are a few handfuls of apps that Made It in that they are only viable as apps, the ones that people will cycle through and open up multiple times a day. It is really hard to get to that point though. I mean the last ones I can think of that people installed were TikTok (similar appeal as Instagram, maybe Snapchat) and FaceApp (short lived gimmick).
I think the app gold rush is over. We've passed the time when every company "needs" an app. Even marketing managers can look at their phones and realize, "Why do I have all of these apps? I don't even know what half of these things are for anymore?" I recently moved, and my new building has separate apps for: Package notifications, dry cleaning pick up/drop off, paying rent, the speakers in the ceilings, building bul…
Just curious, can your wife tell the difference between a native mobile app and an app that's mostly a webview?
Heard the same, thought the same. Casey succumbed to the struggle I find myself dealing with all the time - he found a problem with a technological solve and solved it with technology, which is only something other technologists do or want. Like you said, Instagram has a facility to already put stickers on images for people who wish to censor their pics. If they're not using Instagram, maybe the other program can do…
As one of our VCs once wisely said to us: "The hardest thing is to get a consumer to install a new app. Deliver your solution any way other than its own app."
That doesn't sound like it's generalizable.
You may as well say, "the hardest thing is to get a consumer to sign up for yet another service". And it is hard. But that is precisely how a new consumer app would get traction. It's not like Buzzfeed where no login is required, and the only thing that matters is ad impressions.
I heard him say on some podcast that he thinks there is a possibility for him to make real money on this, but I would say there isn't. Very few people care about this, and almost none of that already small group will have heard of the app. Plus I can't even see how this simplifies anything, if you're posting to instagram it's surely simpler to skip the extra step and just use instagram's built in editor, even if you…
> What's even the point of posting a photo of your child, with the face hidden? Seems very niche. Might be a cultural US thing, but this is something my wife does a lot and I see a lot of people doing. It's one of those things that might not make sense if you don't have kids.
It makes total sense. I don't have kids, but I certainly understand that they aren't old enough to understand the principle of consent when it comes to being photographed for pics that will be shared online by their parents.
So blurring them out somehow protects privacy and lets parents their habitual social media posting.
> There’s several reasons you may want to hide a face: > [...] > * The faces of protestors who are standing up against a grotesque war I don't know if I find this disgustingly opportunistic or a solid gesture of protest and support. Maybe both
In addition to emojis, imagine if this had deep fake support. For the war protestor use-case imagine if everyone in the crowd having the face of Zelenskyy. It'd be nice if this was usually built into whatever social media app people use but I wouldn't trust most social media companies to not store the original image. A sea of mini Nickolas Cage faces in pictures of your child at a playground would entertain some peop…
Zelensky holding up signs for peace/ceasefire wouldn't be surprising.
We need pics of thousands in the streets with Sergei Lavrov's face. Or better yet, the warmonger in chief himself.
the app is simple and clever... tho, you should NOT post personnal stuff on social platforms, do NOT post pictures of your kids ... the internet has become a dreamland for pedos and psychos
I agree, but only a small % of parents are going to refrain from the temptation to share pics widely, and that means online. So this app has a very beneficial use case.
It's not an attack, it's just a statement. If one purpose is to appear employable, he should not mention that it took him 6 months to write it because that is just too long.
It isn’t his full time job. He was doing it as a side project He’s on a 3 person podcast that could very well gross over $850K a year - 3 ad reads * 5500 * 52 weeks a year [1]. I wouldn’t make doing an app a high priority either. He’s also on other podcasts. [1] https://atp.fm/sponsor
Yeah I wouldn't spend a second thinking of that if I were on a high profile podcast like that. Much better to focus on growing that brand.
Ok, but he also mentioned it took him 6 months to make it, so those skills might not be quite up to date...
Not long after that, they talk about how the first version of the app that had all the functionality was done much earlier, and the rest of the time was due to him doing pass after pass improving the UX (and time off for the holidays). That's incredible dedication and I honestly think it reflects well on him.
Have you tried the app? The UX is not that good, you can't resize and move the emojis at the same time, you have to choose one task at a time. Plus you need to put both fingers inside the rectangle it seems, there should be a very generous touch area outside the emoji itself.