I'm curious about your reasoning to provide an API to potentially other companies that could offer payroll service. Do you see this as financially better than providing the service directly yourselves?
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http://www.electriciancalculator.com
I first created the Android version about 3 years ago, then the iOS version about 1 year ago. It currently makes just enough to cover some bills, although I believe it has a greater potential. I'm currently looking for ways to make this a recurring revenue stream instead of a one time payment gig.
The above article seems like a good point of view. Basically achieving the top 1% is an ideal that's sold to us but very very unlikely to become reality. A much better approach would be to find contentment in what you're doing.
Does the computing cost to encrypt/decrypt make this impractical?
For a starting developer, does it still make more sense to learn PHP?
So just posting on HN is not a launch strategy unless you know people who will upvote your submission.
Also Yii is pretty new and it seems to be doing well. Anybody have any experience with Yii?
Also, your product has the same name as a Microsoft product. That's a bad idea. You're never going to get any traffic even if someone searches for your exact name, plus if you ever get even a little big Microsoft's legal team is going to be all over you.
I blog about making a living with software. I currently have several apps and started my own version of the Web App Challenge.