swiecki

It may be worthwhile to compare the success of ping in increasing sales to the success of Genius in increasing sales.

I don't have bulk data on this at all, but I can say that personally, I've bought songs and apps that I've seen recommended to me on their respective Genius lists, but I've never bought a song that a friend has recommended.

Is the genius algorithm more meaningful for sales than social connections? In my experience, yes, algorithm beats friends.

This is awesome.

Web development is a feedback process because clients don't know what they want and they ask you to build off of their feelings, not specifications. So constant communication with clients is required. If cost of this is high for you, then you may not find this service profitable.

The good thing about wordpress theming is that while not every client knows what they want, most clients will be happy with the same couple of things. For this, I recommend building a theme that could act as a starting point for all projects... I mean that has all the luxury features a client could want, so you just remove the parts you don't need later on.

Having your product set up ahead of time as I described above is one way to get around wasting time when you're working with clients.

Investors will generally be more willing to invest in a team of good people creating the application than one person with an idea. You say you have some background in business, that's a start. Look for a good developer to start on the core functionality your app requires.

Thanks for the interesting article. Readers should take care to notice that it is dated summer of last year. It is still an interesting opinion.