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Not shown: 1000s of goofy iphone apps that generated close to $0 If the moral of the story is "Do funky apps for fun and be happily surprised if they make any

Not shown: 1000s of goofy iphone apps that generated close to $0 If the moral of the story is "Do funky apps for fun and be happily surprised if they make any money" then I agree. If the moral is "Do funky apps and expect to make $16k over a weekend" then I have to disagree. Note: I say this as the co-author of a very nice funky app: http://fakewhale.com http://fakewhale.com I am currently waiting by the phone for investors or acquirers to call.

leon_ 16y ago
> Not shown: 1000s of goofy iphone apps that generated close to $0 that's why I sometimes just hate the appstore (and humanity). when a shitty 10 minute app tops the charts and projects that people (read me) spent months on are somewhere @place 1000.
- Dylanlacey 16y ago
  People, all people, are capricious. If they're spending 4/5ths of fuckall for something to amuse them for a few minutes, even more so.
phillco 16y ago
Survivorship bias. Pretty common. "Look I failed" posts are much rarer.
- Mikushi 16y ago
  And that's a shame, i think we could learn a lot from Post Mortem posts of projects, especially if the project fails. It's also a good habit for yourself, to look back at the project, and analyse it, the mistakes that were made, why it didn't work, what would you do differently if you were to start now. When i was a freelancer, and doing my own little flash games, i was almost always do a small report for myself on why it did/didn't work, always a good process to avoid making the same mistakes again and again.
albemuth 16y ago
something is wrong with your css http://i.min.us/ieqoxc.png http://i.min.us/ieqoxc.png
- MicahWedemeyer 16y ago
  A ton of things are wrong with that app. It works about 80% of the time when I want to lampoon a friend. Fixing it for the other 20% just isn't worth it to me.
rgbrgb 16y ago
What does fakewhale even do? Kind of not a good sign that I couldn't figure that out.
- MicahWedemeyer 16y ago
  I'll let pg explain: http://fakewhale.com/tweets/69535 http://fakewhale.com/tweets/69535
  - BadiPod 16y ago
    I don't see the point.
    - ehsanul 16y ago
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
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pshirishreddy 16y ago
probably adding a favicon might do the trick :)

leon_ 16y ago

> Not shown: 1000s of goofy iphone apps that generated close to $0 that's why I sometimes just hate the appstore (and humanity). when a shitty 10 minute app tops the charts and projects that people (read me) spent months on are somewhere @place 1000.

Dylanlacey 16y ago
People, all people, are capricious. If they're spending 4/5ths of fuckall for something to amuse them for a few minutes, even more so.

phillco 16y ago

Survivorship bias. Pretty common. "Look I failed" posts are much rarer.

Mikushi 16y ago
And that's a shame, i think we could learn a lot from Post Mortem posts of projects, especially if the project fails. It's also a good habit for yourself, to look back at the project, and analyse it, the mistakes that were made, why it didn't work, what would you do differently if you were to start now. When i was a freelancer, and doing my own little flash games, i was almost always do a small report for myself on why it did/didn't work, always a good process to avoid making the same mistakes again and again.

albemuth 16y ago

something is wrong with your css http://i.min.us/ieqoxc.png http://i.min.us/ieqoxc.png

MicahWedemeyer 16y ago
A ton of things are wrong with that app. It works about 80% of the time when I want to lampoon a friend. Fixing it for the other 20% just isn't worth it to me.

rgbrgb 16y ago

What does fakewhale even do? Kind of not a good sign that I couldn't figure that out.

MicahWedemeyer 16y ago
I'll let pg explain: http://fakewhale.com/tweets/69535 http://fakewhale.com/tweets/69535
- BadiPod 16y ago
  I don't see the point.
  - ehsanul 16y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

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pshirishreddy 16y ago

probably adding a favicon might do the trick :)