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by jathu 3883 days ago
1. Annex: http://jathu.me/annex

2. Being tired of how unproductive I was. My friend sending a spreadsheet of him tracking his time and finally watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZexvTZ1sV8U

3. I just want to help myself in becoming productive and in the process help others. So far the app has helped me become more productive and I have received many emails/DMs thanking me for helping others achieve this too. The most important thing I want to learn is how to launch a product and keep updating it with the user's feedback. I received a negative feedback from a bug on my initial app, then I fixed it with an update (and added more features) and the user then changed his negative review to a 5-star positive reivew on the app store and was very happy. This alone sold me on the importance of listening to your customers. This is one of my first iOS apps, so I'm learning about iOS development and launching a product at the same time.

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I really appreciate your work and this app is really cool and great. I am really inspired with your work. Thanks a lot for answering. I just curious are you app(iOS) developer or what's your full time job(Just want to know). What is your monthly revenue of this(Nothing special just want to know if you can earn some money from an app). BTW thanks a lot for posting this. It really inspired me lot and very cool app. I may buy this.
Thanks for the kind words!

I wouldn't call my self a "real" app developer just yet as I'm still learning app development (i.e. still don't know how to sync core data with iCloud). I used to focus mostly on web, but recently started iOS. I'm not working yet, I'm still in University studying CS.

I usually don't like to discuss the exact amount I'm making from my app, however I would say I'm "ramen profitable" for a student.

Is there a way to bank user data to measure progress of users / trends / etc? This data would be great to weed through.
This has been on my mind since I began this project. Once I get iCloud integration, I want to ask users to anonymously share their data so I can open source them.

We can study patterns that cause other patterns, the type of productivity, behaviours and so much more.