markrickert

There's way too many reddit things already out there... I was trying to tap a market that doesn't have lots of enthusiastic software developers.

oh.... wait...

Nice! I'll be changing my Mac system tray app HackerBar over to use this instead of some Objective-C scraping magic that it uses now: http://hackerbarapp.com/

I have a plethora of niche-based iOS apps for skydivers, beer enthusiasts, and people in direct sales. Bring in about 1-2k a month, but I actively maintain about half of the apps and am actively developing new apps.

Since January, I've netted roughly $13,000 after Apple's 30% cut. I also make income through Apple's affiliate links that are automatically applied to my apps on my website - http://mohawkapps.com

TLDR: "We just started using this thing. It's pretty cool, but we're not going to tell you anything other than you should use it. Here's some DSLs for it."

Thanks! :P

I DON'T TALK TO RECRUITERS!

I'm amazed at how quickly the reporter turned around that story. I talked to her yesterday afternoon. Also unexpected: my face in the article, lol.

> We don’t see Google services go down once a month. In the last couple of years I haven’t seen any Google services I use to down at all even.

http://www.google.com/appsstatus

I've built a successful side business (http://www.mohawkapps.com) and was even featured in an e-book: http://www.sideprojectbook.com/ - by creating iPhone apps for niche markets and marketing heavily to them through facebook and in-person tradeshows. I gross about $2k-$4k a month but I haven't quit my day job yet.

Apple does a lot of my marketing for me but I also rely heavily on word of mouth. I make sure to have a screen in all my apps that allow users to tell their friends through texting and email about the app. I'm also an apple affiliate so all the traffic that goes to the app store through my site nets me another 7% of all that user's purchases during the session... it makes up for the gigantic chunk of change that Apple takes from my sales.

Recently, I've started branching out into more generic apps that are useful to a wider market, but my niche apps make way more money than the broad-audience apps.

That's exactly it. Lots of small products with microtransactions targeted towards niche markets that i barely have to touch.

Passive income generation is one of the pinnacles of what we as software engineers can do.

Problem I'm currently working on: How to make a long tail of passive income.

"Houston" is already the name of a popular open source project by Mattt Thompson - https://github.com/nomad/houston

Correct - UICollectionView also uses delegates, dataSources, and reusable cells.

Thanks for the link to my app and for citing it as inspiration!

My buddy Corey designed it - https://twitter.com/cdugd

Thank you, gracious master.

Hey, sorry about that. I've fixed the page and it should work now!

Ha! Yep. That's me. Here's a blog post about why I open source all my apps and sell them too http://blog.markrickert.me/why-i-open-source-all-my-rubymoti...

I saw this before deciding to build my own... it's just a webview and is a lot slower than mine. My app is completely native with no webviews whatsoever. So faster and less memory intensive :)

I've changed the price to $1.99 if you quit the App Store app and reload it, the price will be $1.99!

Congrats! I was an AirPair expert a while back and had a great experience. Providing a marketplace like this is a fantastic idea and i'm happy they're getting some industry backing!

That's a horrible readme.

AA won't ever go out of business... they're "too big to fail." I'm sure they'll just be absorbed into "US Government Airlines" when that time comes.

Error:

failed to fetch user profile (status: 403 data: {"message":"Maximum number of login attempts exceeded","documentation_url":"http://developer.github.com/v3"}) at Strategy.userProfile (/opt/gitter/landing-app/node_modules/passport-github/lib/passport-github/strategy.js:90:28) at passBackControl (/opt/gitter/landing-app/node_modules/passport-github/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth2.js:105:9) at IncomingMessage.exports.OAuth2._executeRequest.request.on.callbackCalled (/opt/gitter/landing-app/node_modules/passport-github/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth2.js:124:7) at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:126:20) at IncomingMessage._emitEnd (http.js:366:10) at HTTPParser.parserOnMessageComplete [as onMessageComplete] (http.js:149:23) at CleartextStream.socketOnData [as ondata] (http.js:1472:20) at CleartextStream.CryptoStream._push (tls.js:544:27) at SecurePair.cycle (tls.js:898:20) at EncryptedStream.CryptoStream.write (tls.js:285:13) at Socket.ondata (stream.js:38:26)

Guess it's built with node ;)

After pressing the button again, it gave me the confirmation message.

He's talking about the cost of RubyMotion - $200

Might be worth it to increase the awareness that you give the 4 and 5-letter domains as well with the purchase.

That's the thing. These guys never go away. They keep getting paid to write flawed versions of the future that will never come to pass.

That's why I don't put any weight in anyone who has "analyst" or "tech journalist" in their credentials.

It'll be a bit hard to pick the lock using just a pick and no tensioner.

I gave a talk about lock picking at work a while ago. Here's a 30 minute video: http://skookum.com/blog/lockpicking-101/

Wish I could upvote this. Inner more than once.

Documentation is the last thing to get done (if at all) and the least glamorous, but it needs to be done.

This is especially easy to do if the project has a wiki.