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Re: From idea to AppStore in 2 weeks

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Congrats. I still can't get by the initial cost of RubyMotion. I know, it will pay for itself, but that's a lot of initial buy-in going on faith. I wish they had a demo version available to try before buying.

They offer a 30 day money back guarantee:

http://sites.fastspring.com/hipbyte/product/rubymotion

Re: From idea to AppStore in 2 weeks

#7

Congrats. I still can't get by the initial cost of RubyMotion. I know, it will pay for itself, but that's a lot of initial buy-in going on faith. I wish they had a demo version available to try before buying.

I'm in the same boat. I WANT to try it, I WANT to love it, but I can't justify paying for it just to find this out, especially given that I already know the Obj-C ways of iOS dev.

Re: From idea to AppStore in 2 weeks

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I'm really curious about that.

There are about half dozen similar applications on the Appstore, for free.

I tried a few, and most of them did the job they were suppose to do fairly well.

How did you convince people to choose yours as opposed to the other ones that already existed ?

Clearly the Metro article is what pushed people (that possibly didn't know that those apps existed) to actually get and download your app.

Congrats and kudos.

Re: From idea to AppStore in 2 weeks

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post #8

I'm really curious about that. There are about half dozen similar applications on the Appstore, for free. I tried a few, and most of them did the job they were suppose to do fairly well. How did you convince people to choose yours as opposed to the other ones that already existed ? Clearly the Metro article is what pushed people (that possibly didn't know that those apps existed) to actually get and download your app…

Thanks!

I knew that there were a lot of similar apps on the AppStore but I went with my conviction that less is more. Nearly all the apps are multifunctional and include journey planners, maps, alerts etc etc.

As a Londoner, I know my way around, the only thing I want to know is if the tube is even working – this is how Lines was born. I've tried to make the app's simplicity it's main selling point and hope I've achieved this to some degree.

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