markrickert
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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
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/
Comment · 12 years ago
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
Comment · 12 years ago
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."
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks! :P
Comment · 12 years ago
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.
Comment · 12 years ago
> 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.
Comment · 13 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
Problem I'm currently working on: How to make a long tail of passive income.
Comment · 13 years ago
"Houston" is already the name of a popular open source project by Mattt Thompson - https://github.com/nomad/houston
Comment · 13 years ago
Correct - UICollectionView also uses delegates, dataSources, and reusable cells.
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks for the link to my app and for citing it as inspiration!
oh.... wait...