What it takes to launch an app

medium.com

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Hi! I'm the author of this article. Despite having been in the software game for a while I still completely underestimated the work. Hopefully this is a useful record for other people launching their weekend project.

Curious as to your gut take on the net commercial value of producing an iOS app, i.e. the timeline and effort versus business growth in the context of a small team [as opposed to VC backed startup or enterprise].

Also wondering how a scenario where an iOS app is an extension of an existing project might differ from one where the app is a "greenfield" project.

> Turns out it takes about an hour for an app to propagate to all the app stores.

I'm relatively sure most iOS developers have panicked over that at some stage.

Yeah because you let everyone know it's up and they can't download it...

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