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Love the manifesto. Great list of things. I particularly like #1. It’s been a major focus of mine to focus my attention on things within my control. And in the current environment that’s definitely not easy.

Trevor’s friend here: https://store.wearewired.in

I took his advice haha. I have 300 fully packaged signs to pick up this week. Excited to fix the supply chain issues and start shipping end of the week.

What platforms will you use for your example clients?

Simple battery powered light that you can use to tell your coworkers to leave you alone when you need to focus.

Lol. I hate this list.

I don't want it to be true, because I want to believe in the best of people.

Unfortunately I think you may be right. It seems like the people that succeed in marketing are the people that agree with this. We all want to be Don Draper, but we probably just need to be (lil) green patch.

There are a lot of pieces to the prototyping; this post is by Andrew on prototyping the bluetooth with the RFDuino. The hardware they built is a dream to work with.

Feel free to ask questions about our prototyping process. We're excited to share.

I'm not sure. At this point we're actually considering on tying in with existing messaging APIs (Slack, Hipchat, Campfire, Google Hangouts)

We are actually planning on letting users customize their sign text. Also, you can change the color depending on availability.

My hope is that you'd actually have an entire work space with a sign on each desk.

That's our hope. I have a prototype on my desk and I love it.

I'd love to hear any ideas you guys have, or any thoughts on what we should talk about.

We're in prototype phase and we have done some overseas testing. We're also going through the process of building it for HomeKit.

I realize that money isn't everything. And developing for iOS means more than that. I do think, however, that it's weighing on the minds of a lot of people picking a career path.

Building for iOS gives you the ability to reach millions of people that care about design, and experience. I feel like a mobile gives you the opportunity to reach people in a more personal and intimate way than a web app.

The fact is, there are as many reasons for choosing a platform (web, iOS, or Android) as there are developers. I'm actually very interested in hearing other developers reasons.

I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

I just remembered that Tower is releasing a V2 now as well.

I wish I had numbers on the effect of those V2 and V3 and even V4 releases.

It's a common method for indie Mac developers. Look at anything Panic does, or even someone like Daniel Jalkut with Mars Edit.

I think you are exactly right. The indie devs speaking out are largely Game developers.

The funny thing about the Unread story is that if he keeps on releasing new paid versions (like Tweetie 2 or Tweetbot 2) and then charges for them, he'll just have that much larger of a base to launch on, and will make more money.

I believe it's not just about the caliber of apps, it's about the caliber of business that releases the apps. They need to consider marketing, pricing, launch strategies, and app store optimization. They need to maintain a relationship with their customers, and constantly ask what the customer wants. There is a lot more to a mobile company than the app, and I think the best companies (and their apps) are the ones that will survive.

Exactly. THAT is a door opened to you once you learn to write iOS applications.

It's crazy to me to think that a passive $45,000 from an iOS app isn't a reason to invest $4500 on a 12 week course. But whatever you say.

Also, a senior iOS developer can make anywhere from $90-150k in even a low paying market like Utah. I don't even know what the market is in places like New York and California.

Needless to say, what you get for your $4500 is a lot more than just indie game revenue. It's a life changing experience to learn to write iOS apps.

I'm a full time iOS dev that taught myself. I spent a ton of time working through my struggles via StackOverflow and piece working online tutorials.

Very cool to see what you were able to build in only 12 weeks.

Why did you choose this, instead of learning yourself. Didn't you still have to do all the work to learn even with the program?

Sometimes I get the app with the Russia news and sometimes I get the landing page. It's probably a propagation issue.

Looks awesome. Excited to watch this grow.

Thanks for pointing this out. This was a post we pushed earlier, we weren't quite ready to open the doors yet.

This post is a more comprehensive overview of what we're trying to do.

That's the exact same problem we had, and all of our potential clients had. We want to make it easier to use, more accessible.

We talked to 3 types of customers. The non-technical were largely disinterested. We're still too early for that. Agencies were all over this for their clients though. Great feedback from them.

We can take Paypal. Send us your contact info in the Contact form on http://statiq.io

[fair enough] hahaha

We're at Startup Weekend in Ogden and a few of the people here are being very generous.

So cynical.

Switching over to a static blog was a ton of fun. I was a bit intimidated, but once I started rolling it wasn't any harder to set up than Wordpress.

The hardest part when I got started was getting a good theme. I wanted to do some tinkering, or buy a theme from a good source. There wasn't anything I liked.

Super excited for statiq.io

It's easy to pretend that we don't care what other people think.

The gold colored iPhone is polarizing. Those that don't like it care that others do like it, and want to convince people to agree with them. (and vice versa).

Device unseen, maybe. Sight unseen, no.

Apple.com had pictures of the device long before they waited in line or clicked 'buy'.

I think that there is a 'self definition' (whether right or wrong) that takes place with a device decision. When people choose an iPhone or Android phone, they start to identify with that brand. The same can be said of color.

Back in 2007 I remember listening to a student and his father shopping for a Mac. He refused to buy the lower cost white one because it was girly. He had to get the top of the MacBooks black model.

I think the self definition aspect of the purchase lasts much longer than a couple weeks.

My twitter stream was filled with gold iPhone bashers on Friday and Saturday.

This one really got to me: https://twitter.com/eEditor/status/381084430611144704

The iPhone is a fashion item, and is going to follow fashion trends. This includes going gold.

What laws are you talking about?