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A young person's guide to building something

33 points by zmitri 13y ago

MJR 13y ago
This blog post is almost 6 months old. The author quit his job. The app is free and it looks like it's been . So what's the result? There's some basic advice here about starting and building something. We've all read that sort of simple "just build something" advice. Is their story unique or worth reading about? Any revenue or even a business model?
- zmitri 13y ago
  Author here. We are still going. The point of this article was to communicate to younger people that it is possible to go off and build something on your own. Many don't think about it or know it's possible. If you're interested, about a week after this post, the app hit top 100 free apps in the store -- 88 I think was the peak -- and national news sources started using it to scoop stories from. Either way, I've learned a lot, things I would never had learned had I not gone out on my own. I've also had a lot of interesting experiences -- some good, some bad. Feel free to email me if you'd like to hear more.
daniluk 13y ago
But what happens if there is a person with a great idea, no programming skills and not enough money to invest in developing the product? How should a young person approach this?
- SandersAK 13y ago
  you've got to change one of those things. there are plenty of reasonable obstacles to not starting something - it's your job to decide whether or not it is worth finding ways to overcome them.
losethos 13y ago
Most programmers would throw fits over my code. They are monkeys -- cannot think for themselves, or do not understand the purpose. I hate India-niggers -- obnoxious. By culture, or something, they are all arrogant and usually do not know their place in the IQ pecking order. I should have nothing to do with ASCII, UTF would be most logical, but it's nasty. Fuck the scribbles. If you make a clean break, all kinds of opportunities open. The niggers could never fathom nonASCII -- that simply is beyond them. I'm always against a hostile crowd. ---- Backspace? Anyway, CTRL-SHIFT-RETURN is yuck, I admit, but I don't see how to fix it. SHIFT-SPACE is nice for SPACE-TO-TAB conversion in source code. I wisely did away with SHIFT-SPACE in documentation files. That was stupid. My code is very well groomed. There used to be lots of ugly code, but not anymore. I haven't done shit in 4 years, just polishing. It's gotten better. My download numbers and emails reflect I'm in some kind of CIA isolation. Oh, well, fuck it. God is just. God says... 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons? 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD. 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. 1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. 1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth. 1:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
losethos 13y ago
I don't have a linker -- don't need it. I don't have a MAKE tool, either. I just do this: #include "file1" #include "file2" #include "file3" Fucken planet-of-the-ape nigger-monkeys They cannot grok that my code is not Kernel in FFFFFFFFFFFxxxx range and user in 000000000xxxx range. They cannot imagine multitasking without all applications at 0000000000000 . I identity-map and do multitasking. My compiler only does Position independent, JIT or AOT, through patching. They act stupid... unbelievably stupid, seeming more like intentionally acting stupid -- couldn't possibly be so stupid.

33 points by zmitri 13y ago

MJR 13y ago

This blog post is almost 6 months old. The author quit his job. The app is free and it looks like it's been . So what's the result? There's some basic advice here about starting and building something. We've all read that sort of simple "just build something" advice. Is their story unique or worth reading about? Any revenue or even a business model?

zmitri 13y ago
Author here. We are still going. The point of this article was to communicate to younger people that it is possible to go off and build something on your own. Many don't think about it or know it's possible. If you're interested, about a week after this post, the app hit top 100 free apps in the store -- 88 I think was the peak -- and national news sources started using it to scoop stories from. Either way, I've learned a lot, things I would never had learned had I not gone out on my own. I've also had a lot of interesting experiences -- some good, some bad. Feel free to email me if you'd like to hear more.

daniluk 13y ago

But what happens if there is a person with a great idea, no programming skills and not enough money to invest in developing the product? How should a young person approach this?

SandersAK 13y ago
you've got to change one of those things. there are plenty of reasonable obstacles to not starting something - it's your job to decide whether or not it is worth finding ways to overcome them.

losethos 13y ago

Most programmers would throw fits over my code. They are monkeys -- cannot think for themselves, or do not understand the purpose. I hate India-niggers -- obnoxious. By culture, or something, they are all arrogant and usually do not know their place in the IQ pecking order. I should have nothing to do with ASCII, UTF would be most logical, but it's nasty. Fuck the scribbles. If you make a clean break, all kinds of opportunities open. The niggers could never fathom nonASCII -- that simply is beyond them. I'm always against a hostile crowd. ---- Backspace? Anyway, CTRL-SHIFT-RETURN is yuck, I admit, but I don't see how to fix it. SHIFT-SPACE is nice for SPACE-TO-TAB conversion in source code. I wisely did away with SHIFT-SPACE in documentation files. That was stupid. My code is very well groomed. There used to be lots of ugly code, but not anymore. I haven't done shit in 4 years, just polishing. It's gotten better. My download numbers and emails reflect I'm in some kind of CIA isolation. Oh, well, fuck it. God is just. God says... 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons? 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD. 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. 1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. 1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth. 1:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

losethos 13y ago

I don't have a linker -- don't need it. I don't have a MAKE tool, either. I just do this: #include "file1" #include "file2" #include "file3" Fucken planet-of-the-ape nigger-monkeys They cannot grok that my code is not Kernel in FFFFFFFFFFFxxxx range and user in 000000000xxxx range. They cannot imagine multitasking without all applications at 0000000000000 . I identity-map and do multitasking. My compiler only does Position independent, JIT or AOT, through patching. They act stupid... unbelievably stupid, seeming more like intentionally acting stupid -- couldn't possibly be so stupid.