Comments on: The “One Day” iPhone App Experiment

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:14:49 +0000

Great article, really interesting. I was wondering how you made the icon; i presume you made yourself in gimp. What dimensions do you need? Do you make the rounded corners yourself or does apple add that? What about the specular reflection at the top of lots of icons?

By: Jacek

Jacek — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:08:07 +0000

Hi Noel. That’s is a nice article. How are your earnings so far?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:10:20 +0000

Hi,

I’m curious if your tea app has sold much. Would you be willing to share any sales numbers? I’m just starting out on iphone development myself and am just curious about these sorts of things.

Thanks for the great writeup.

jeremy

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:53:10 +0000

@Andrew, Good idea. I can actually do better than that: I’ll use the system time to know when it was started, so if you leave the app in the timer screen, you’ll get the correct time remaining when you come back. I was going to push an update this weekend with a couple minor fixes, so I’ll add this in as well. Thanks for the suggestion!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:19:54 +0000

Just a thought; you could store the time that the timer was started in the core. That way, if you leave the program you could quickly calculate how much time is remaining

By: Hayden

Hayden — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:16:11 +0000

Hi Noel, These types of posts are brilliant! Ever thought how many global human hours you’ve just saved?

regards

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:23:44 +0000

@Austin

Really, it didn’t take a leap of the imagination to put the sentence about pricing into the context of the whole article did it… I wonder how many other $0.99 apps are designed to test the waters… 3 days work is nothing if you think you can get 25% on top of something you’ve been working on for 4 months.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:10:51 +0000

Thanks for posting your experience. Interesting blog post about something I’ve been curious about for a while now, how quickly an iPod app can go from concept to being available through Itunes.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:20:50 +0000

@ derChef I have to agree. If people don’t want to pay for it, they don’t have to buy it.

Whenever someone says something like this, I tell them that I’d be happy to do that, as long as they’d be willing to go to where they work and work for free for a few days. That usually shuts them up.

By: pierre

pierre — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:08:45 +0000

You may be right

The trick is to know if you are transaction business in CA or not, and according to http://www.myllc.com/which-state-to-form-llc.aspx :

Tip! – A good way to determine whether or not you are “transacting business” in your home state is if you lease office space or have employees there. If either of these are the case, then you will most likely be required to register to transact business in your state and it will be much easier if you just form your corporation or LLC there in the first place.

If you do not have a brick and mortar business, such as an internet-based company or a consulting business, then you may have some more options open to you.

Let’s see if someone else here has an opinion about that