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14 Years Old Kuwaiti Achieves 800,000 Downloads for His iPhone App
- ArabGeek 16y agoKuwait is on the richest countries in the world in terms of GDP, so not everyone is spoiled do not u think so?
- csomar 16y agoI think here you mean the per capita and not actually the global country GDP. However, there is no relation. Having a higher per capita or GDP doesn't relate to luxury. It's the amount of work a nation has made over a year. For the game, I think it's more about the idea than the coding itself.
- ArabGeek 16y agoyes per capita, and the idea played a big role yes :)
- ecargnfx 16y agoThis is awesome. I've always learned by doing as well. Thanks for sharing!
- ArabGeek 16y agowelcome, i got some people to help in some coding and then the rest by my self :)
- wallflower 16y agoCongratulations! Your results make older developers feel like excuses are just that. How did you do your marketing? Do you feel you benefitted from the rapid rise in popularity of physics-based games?
- ArabGeek 16y agoI am not the developer guys who said i am the 14 years old kid :)
- Timothee 16y agoI'm confused: are you or are you not the 14yo talked about in this article? In other comments, you say "he".
- fictorial 16y agoThis is great. Congratulations! FWIW I am a 35 year old New Yorker has 3,000,000 active users for his iPhone App (Darts). I am embarrassed by the advertisements but it pays the bills. sigh.
- ArabGeek 16y agoit is ok, there was no iPhone 21 years ago :)
- dpcan 16y agoJust curious, does 3M active users generate a lot of ad revenue? One of our games is just about to go over 250k and I'm thinking of putting Admob ads in it or Google Adsense (they've approved us for beta).
- fictorial 16y agoYes, it does work quite well for me. I could easily be an outlier and got lucky because of the name (literally "Darts"). Note that I am not using iAd (yet?). I started with Admob, then moved to Adwhirl and noticed that Quattro worked out the best. Now Quattro is Apple. I am kind of an ass about the ads though since they are always present, in menus and during gameplay alike. If you read any of the reviews, my users hate me and it (used to) keep me up at night. sniffle. But, it helped me bootstrap a consulting business for mostly iOS work so I have taken a pragmatic view.
- sspencer 16y agoVery cool! When I was 14 it was all about hacking apart QBasic. Strangely no one wanted to buy my Gorillas clone... Congratulations!
- fictorial 16y agoMy first program was a curses-like Yahtzee written in QBasic when I was 16. I recall learning about particle systems about that time. If you got a Yahtzee in the game, gratuitous explosions congratulated you. It was utterly ridiculous but fun as hell.
- cj 16y ago[...] and Yes, and Yes, and Yes he is impressive. I love the self-starter type kids who have cool interests and do projects like these. Side note: is this article a translation?
- ArabGeek 16y agothe writer is 32 years old and not translation
- ergo98 16y agoI wish I wasn't the one to play the skeptic, but I'm naturally skeptical about stories like this. Kids are often used as fronts for adults looking for a promotion vehicle.
- ArabGeek 16y agothe story was picked up from Kuwaiti blog i do not think his father is the developer using his kid's age!
- ArabGeek 16y agogo to the app profile on iTunes it got his name
- kranner 16y agoIf you're interested in this theme (adults using kids as promotional vehicles), I can recommend a sharp satire I'm reading at the moment: http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Men-Novel-Manu-Joseph/dp/0393338592/ http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Men-Novel-Manu-Joseph/dp/03933... Blurb from that page: "... a subtly wicked satire of subterfuge and ambition that bounces between the Mumbai tenement where low-caste Ayyan Mani lives, and the esteemed research institute where he labors as the assistant of top researcher Arvind Acharya. Forever spiteful toward his privileged superiors, Ayyan is deviously mischievous and pulls off a stunt that ends with his half-deaf (but otherwise ordinary) son being proclaimed in the local news as a boy genius. Meanwhile, Arvind is obsessed with proving his theory that extraterrestrial microbes are raining down on Earth from the upper atmosphere. "
- ArabGeek 16y agoso u r saying that kids at 14 can not code? he is not the first one to be an entrepreneur at his age in the world
- csomar 16y agoThe game doesn't seem to involve so much coding. Actually, it's not about the game, it's about how it got around 1 million download. If you want to show us a 14 kid coding, then get it to do some coding stuff. Example, solve a math. equation or write an algorithm or hack Windows kernel... If you show us 800K downloads, it's just the app success that happens either by good planing and marketing or a sheer luck.
- skowmunk 16y agoThats a pretty awesome achievement, I hope he keeps it up and does some good with it. Goes to show what 2 weeks of complete absolute immersion into something can result in. There's always a chance that such a thing could be a fake claim, but I do think its definitely possible.
- whatwhatwhat 16y agodid anyone else think this was really smirky at the end?
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- eingko 16y agoAnyone else notice the uncanny resemblance between "doodle destroy" and "doodle vanish"?
- eingko 16y agoAnyone else notice the uncanny resemblance between "doodle destroy" and "doodle vanish"?
- KeithMajhor 16y agoI've read several stories about kids like this but I never seem to hear about them later on. Were there any kids back in the 90's that are still active and somewhat popular today?
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- ig1 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jez_San http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jez_San (started as a games developer in his teens, now better known as the founder of pkr.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twins
- imran 16y agov ery inspiring!