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by bignoggins 14y ago
I've made almost a million dollars in 2 years as an indie developer. I also know many others as successful as myself or more so they are definitely out there. A top grossing iOS app makes 500k per DAY, so there are definitely a lot of succe
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by bignoggins 14y ago
Great job. Humbled to be part of it!
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new iOS IAP hack (no jailbreak required)(gizmodo.com)
2 points by bignoggins 14y ago|1 comments
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by bignoggins 14y ago
I'm thinking of starting a tech-nonprofit my self. How does it work in terms of fundraising? Are you raising donations instead of investment? And do you have to constantly seek donations since you don't really ever have the intention of mak
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by bignoggins 14y ago
you can't bill unless you are actively working on the case. So that's 60 BILLABLE hours, which often translates to 80+ hours total including breaks.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
if you count IAP, it's probably double that, just based on my own experience with paid apps and IAP.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
that's the global list, but the per category list that OP was talking about is on iTunes desktop only. So pretty much worthless.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
Best of luck. I quit my job a year and a half ago to work on my app business full time. I'm now making 6 times my salary from app profits. In my situation, my app profits were already surpassing my income by the time I quit. I'm not sure wh
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by bignoggins 14y ago
The What's Hot list is useless since it's not on the device. It's likely algorithmic as well. The only list that matters is the curated featured list on the device.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
It's 900 million monthly active users. Say what you will about FB but they don't use vanity metrics.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
no it's dropped substantially. now it's about 10%
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by bignoggins 14y ago
pretty much followed Rob's advice to the T
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by bignoggins 14y ago
it's for the risk averse because you can bootstrap and keep your job. it's for the lazy because your limited time forces you to attack much smaller problems and make compromises, which im my opinion is a GOOD thing.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
I haven't spent any money and barely any time on marketing. Development I did all the coding myself and eventually hired a graphic designer part time. The thing is I'm not usually on the Top 100 list (or even Top 300 for that matter), I jus
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by bignoggins 14y ago
thanks Tim!
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by bignoggins 14y ago
Its in my HN profile
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by bignoggins 14y ago
I'm a big fan of bootstrapping, allow me to add my own data point. I was the typical bored-at-BigCo guy but was afraid to completely jump into startups full time (I have a family). I decided to bootstrap my startup (mobile app) at the begin
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by bignoggins 14y ago
good stuff. always good to hear other app success stories.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
out of all the posts on HN right now about this, this one is by far the most insightful.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
More salary guides from the same company http://www.rhi.com/SalaryGuides (covers legal, tech, and others)
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by bignoggins 14y ago
I have a similar experience. I actually traveled the world for 7 months last year working on my startup. It was exciting at first, but then the excitement became routine and I longed to get back to my SF home office.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
I'm assuming his company actually makes revenues since they charge, so most of the salaries may be covered by revenues already and the funding will make up the rest.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
It doesn't need to be an html5 app it can be a native app that uses Facebook login
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by bignoggins 14y ago
heard you throw this figure around before. Can you break that out more? How much of that is salary, and how much is benefits? And this is location dependent, no?
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by bignoggins 14y ago
I love how you are doing this literally the day after your microconf talk on collecting emails. On a side note you have an unhealthy obsession with red sweatshirts.
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by bignoggins 14y ago
Fairly complex entertainment app
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by bignoggins 14y ago
As a data point I have about 900,000 customers to service (iPhone apps). I've also had times in my career where I have had one customer (department of defense). I'm much happier with the 900,000. I think an assumption Jason makes that i wou
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by bignoggins 14y ago
Absolutely see this for customers of iPhone apps. If. You're not careful the avalanche of customer service requests on a 99c app can sink you
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by bignoggins 15y ago
Not sure if I'm the only one out there like this, but I'm actually a technical guy who wants to be a non-technical cofounder. I'm a decent programmer but I find myself much more drawn to the business and product side of things and would be
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by bignoggins 15y ago
+1 for rob walling. I read his book start small stay small a few years ago and it totally changed my strategy on how to build a business. I've gone the multiple apps route and on track to gross over 500k this year. And all the while I've tr

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