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What's with all the hating? I can see where constantly seeing "How we did XXX for $YYYY.YY" can get a little tiresome, but they also serve a purpose. One, they'

What's with all the hating? I can see where constantly seeing "How we did XXX for $YYYY.YY" can get a little tiresome, but they also serve a purpose. One, they're insight into what sort of expenses a venture like this takes. Sure, you have some expenses that most people would discard, but then you just get a lower number. Two, it provides knowledge and inspiration to people out there who have yet to start their ventures. Not everyone wants to be a linux kernel coder, some kids out there might want to be iPhone software developers, and this article tells them that even a teenager can probably do it over the summer with a little sweat equity and some money saved up from a job. These kind of articles make entrepreneurship less of a mystery, and thats a good thing.

silencio 18y ago
On a sidenote, a teenager wanting to be an iPhone developer over the summer would probably want to subtract a couple thousand dollars from that figure, since Apple does have a student scholarship program for WWDC that provides college students with free wwdc tickets (whether you pay for travel/housing depends on where you live/which college you attend as individual programs may reimburse you for that up to a certain amount).
markbao 18y ago
I'm guilty of a "I did XX with $$ in time XX" but shared my experience during it. Not as much the expense, but more relating to decisions made. Hopefully it's interesting and helpful in some way. http://weblog.markbao.com/2008/how-i-built-a-webapp-in-18-hours-for-699/ http://weblog.markbao.com/2008/how-i-built-a-webapp-in-18-ho...