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"Payment upon all 4 app variants' successful submission to all 4 platforms' app stores using our accounts." So if your idea is rejected by the Apple App Store

"Payment upon all 4 app variants' successful submission to all 4 platforms' app stores using our accounts." So if your idea is rejected by the Apple App Store then there's no payment? That payment clause alone will be a deal breaker for any decent developer. If you take that restriction out you MIGHT get someone to help, even with the restrictive budget.

cdvonstinkpot 13y ago
If the app isn't accepted initially, it would just have to be refined until it _is_ finally accepted. That's just stated that way so that I don't get a dev who makes a low quality app that can't get approved to the app store & so I don't get stranded paying for an app I can't sell.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  The problem is that acceptance/rejection by an app marketplace -- and this is notoriously the case with Apple's App Store -- is not something that is either consistently based on quality or based solely on criteria which are known with certainty by anyone outside of the firm operating the marketplace prior to the decision to accept or reject (and, potentially, not even after that decision is made.) You're essentially asking the developer to bear the risk of uncertainty from all of the app stores, and making the entire project payment potentially forfeit based on any one marketplace's arbitrary action. There may be developers that are willing to take that risk, but I suspect its going to narrow the pool that are willing to even consider your project at any given price point. > That's just stated that way so that I don't get a dev who makes a low quality app that can't get approved to the app store & so I don't get stranded paying for an app I can't sell. Sure, its reasonable you'd want to avoid that, but on the other side, developers are going to want to avoid writing an app that they can't get paid for due to forces beyond their control.

cdvonstinkpot 13y ago

If the app isn't accepted initially, it would just have to be refined until it _is_ finally accepted. That's just stated that way so that I don't get a dev who makes a low quality app that can't get approved to the app store & so I don't get stranded paying for an app I can't sell.

dragonwriter 13y ago
The problem is that acceptance/rejection by an app marketplace -- and this is notoriously the case with Apple's App Store -- is not something that is either consistently based on quality or based solely on criteria which are known with certainty by anyone outside of the firm operating the marketplace prior to the decision to accept or reject (and, potentially, not even after that decision is made.) You're essentially asking the developer to bear the risk of uncertainty from all of the app stores, and making the entire project payment potentially forfeit based on any one marketplace's arbitrary action. There may be developers that are willing to take that risk, but I suspect its going to narrow the pool that are willing to even consider your project at any given price point. > That's just stated that way so that I don't get a dev who makes a low quality app that can't get approved to the app store & so I don't get stranded paying for an app I can't sell. Sure, its reasonable you'd want to avoid that, but on the other side, developers are going to want to avoid writing an app that they can't get paid for due to forces beyond their control.