Comments on: 5 Lessons Learned While Being a Freelance iPhone Developer

By: David

David — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:06:57 +0000

I guess i’ll start to look into classes on iOS development, then.

By: David

David — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:02:58 +0000

Ok, thank you for the advice!

By: Drew Crawford

Drew Crawford — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:36:38 +0000

I'm afraid not. Here's Paul Graham's wisdom on the subject:

Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless.

Your options are basically: 1. Save a big enough war chest to hire the talent you need. 2. Learn to do enough of the technical side to do prototypes and get traction. 3. Come up with a better idea that you have the skills to execute already

By: David

David — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:13:57 +0000

In this day and in this digital/freeware/internet age, is there any hope out there for the man that comes to the table with nothing but an idea?

I am a man with neither money nor technical background, but i have an idea that i am convinced could be extremely successful. Is there any hope for me to find someone that might help me realize that idea?

Thanks,

David

By: Darren Gow-Brown

Darren Gow-Brown — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:14:21 +0000

Well said, but perhaps buyer beware

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:00:06 +0000

It appears that the iPhone (or any phone) app market has its own business strategy that really does not apply to other software engineering markets. According to your article, there seems to be thousands of potential customers, each with a relatively short project (measured in weeks). I worked with a customer that had his “ideas”, one that you would probably turn down in a second, but with some coaxing (billable time), redesigned his ideas into workable ones. I then had a free hand at fixing his design.

Go to a market with fewer clients with projects that can take months, even years, and you will not “walk away” so quickly. In fact, you will start developing customer management skills, working with the customer to bring them to reality, instead of walking away.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:02:53 +0000

If you’re talking about justifying my prices to clients, I don’t. It’s a lot cheaper for me to let the client get a quote from another developer, and either take it, or not take it, than it is trying to sell the client. The halfday or so that it would take me to do a real sales presentation just doesn’t scale to the number of projects I quote. In another market, I might do something different.

By: asquare

asquare — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:08:05 +0000

Nice wright up, agree with all of this. This can be applied to most programming, design practices. I started using this analogy to clients when they ask for a discount. “Do you ask your mechanic or Doctor for a discount?” when they say yes its
“hay thanks for the coffee gotta go”
They have no idea what it takes or how much of your time is invested in their app. Technology has become well so easy it should just take you a few hours to build this right >”~”<

By: Amanpreet Singh

Amanpreet Singh — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:14:01 +0000

An educating article from a real experience … 😀

By: emrecan

emrecan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:56:40 +0000

your background and font is preventing me from understanding.