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by neo_cs193p 1735 days ago
You sound like a great hire to me. A lot of people in tech are somewhat challenged (in one way or another, and usually in several) when it comes to dealing with other people, so I don't see this as a disqualifying trait.

But since you are good at turning ideas into polished products, what about your own ideas? I'm talking about simply creating "catchy" apps and selling them on the App Store. Is there a good living to be made this way, with a skill level like yours? Can you get any predictable/consistent success? I'm guessing no matter how good an app is, you still need a fair bit of luck to get it seen by a lot of people (or perhaps the "right" influencers) to make a hit out of it. And yet when you see something simple and catchy like FlappyBird, made by some seemingly random guy in Vietnam, it seems obvious to everyone other than himself that millions would buy it. I wonder how many nice and catchy little apps like that never catch the big wave, and die after getting downloaded by a handful of people.
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ChrisMarshallNY 1734 days ago
I’ve released over 20 apps on the App Store, since 2012, but none have taken off. TBPH, I haven’t really tried. My free Bluetooth sniffer apps seem to be fairly popular, but I am not really in a hurry to start making a ton of money. I don’t really need it, and I mostly release stuff to stay in practice. I think I’m down to only three or four apps, now: https://littlegreenviper.com/AppDocs/

I also have a bunch of OSS SPM modules: https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/

This one is fun: https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#RV...

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neo_cs193p 1734 days ago
The spinning picker view is a very cool idea indeed. It looks like the kind of thing Apple could end up "sherlocking" :)
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ChrisMarshallNY 1734 days ago
You would think so, but I keep not using it in my projects.

It's a very "in your face" UI element. It's the star of the show, and I have a personal philosophy that UI should remain in the background, as much as possible.

This is why waitstaff at restaurants often wear black uniforms.

The checkbox widget[0] has actually been far more useful to me. I use that all over the place (In its SFSymbols form, so it looks like a Mac checkbox). I'm not a fan of Apple's UISwitch widget.

I will, eventually, do SwiftUI versions of these widgets, but I'm not in a hurry.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Checkbox

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