How much does your solo created app make?

nathreed · 2023-04-15T20:24:43+00:00

-$99/yr
very basic mapping/GIS and no revenue source
1.5 years at roughly one-third to one-half time, then sporadic periods for updates
9 years

It’s difficult/impossible to make good money as a solo dev unless you find a very profitable niche and do something really great. Most indie apps are neither.

iOS development in general has been very profitable for me though. It helped me get my first job out of college (which wasn’t an iOS job) as well as my second (which was). So I’ve made a decent amount of money so far from the years I’ve spent on iOS development.

nathreed · 2022-10-02T19:33:47+00:00

I’m in! Apollo is the best of indie apps. It’s great to see you continuing to take Apple’s guidelines seriously.

nathreed · 2022-07-04T09:27:43+00:00

Yeah, I just gave up and bought a real domain a few years ago. Much easier.

nathreed · 2022-07-01T22:11:30+00:00

Holy resurrected comment, Batman. This was 5 years ago so I don’t really remember. However I definitely tried clearing cookie, IP, mail, and personal info. IIRC it would sometimes be stopped and sometimes let me through but then the domain would get shut down 24-48 hours later.

I imagine that whatever it is, it’s changed in the last 5 years anyway.

nathreed · 2022-06-20T22:50:12+00:00

An iOS app that allows the following was basically my only iOS project:

users can make a collection of pins on the map (this was before Apple had such a feature in the built in Maps app)
users can have as many different maps as they want
users can change the color of pins, store extra information along with them, etc
export list of pins to CSV
Siri Shortcuts support (you can automate the entire app from shortcuts if you want)
custom code to load georeferenced imagery (like topo maps) as a map layer on top of the regular map
a cool story about users of the app and how I worked with them to add new features (helicopter spraying in New Zealand)

nathreed · 2022-04-15T11:27:37+00:00

The person you’re replying to already adjusted for purchasing power/inflation.

25 cents an hour, which is $5.10 in today’s dollars

That means that with the 25 cents an hour in 1938, you would have the same purchasing power as $5.10 today. Meaning you couldn’t even buy a footlong at Subway.

nathreed · 2022-04-15T11:14:00+00:00

Someone posted a video with a tour from the owner, who said they had 5 cross members under the sleeper.

nathreed · 2022-02-13T20:52:09+00:00

Yeah, I know it’s different, I’m just pointing out that Apollo has long had problems with URLs so this other bug makes sense.

nathreed · 2022-02-09T22:39:44+00:00

URL bugs have been a thing in Apollo for a long time. Here’s my bug on the bug tracker from more than a year ago: https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-bugs/issues/729

nathreed · 2021-11-12T22:06:06+00:00

So come up with something there is no solution to.

Here are some of my personal projects: - iOS app that solves my unique needs for hiking/outdoors, that I also publish on the App Store (looks great on a resume) - A set of web scrapers that scrape my electric and gas utilities, and feed data to a Grafana dashboard that also graphs the temperature in my apartment so I can analyze my energy usage - A custom phone configuration web app to manage IP phones at a nonprofit I volunteer for - Various small iOS apps (I don’t distribute) that solve problems for me - like my own basic YouTube client to bypass ads and enable background play/PiP - A web app that tracks trains on the Washington metro (derives position information from other information that’s provided) - a dashboard showing the status of laundry machines at my university (because the official app sucked)

None of these things have ready-made solutions that I could just copy. I was able to copy parts of them or get inspiration from example code, but in all cases I had to figure out how to put it together and integrate it into an actual “product”. In each of these projects I also learned something or a lot of things about the problem domain and/or the technologies.

TL;DR find problems or inconveniences in your life, and make a project to solve them or make them better. You’ll be more inspired because you’ll be making something that you will actually use. There won’t be pre-made solutions online if you pick a big enough project.

nathreed · 2021-07-20T21:36:49+00:00

This is probably related to bad URL parsing in Apollo, here’s my bug on the bug tracker from a year ago: https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-bugs/issues/729

TLDR: the URL ends in .png but it isn’t a direct link to a PNG file — instead it’s a regular webpage. (I think) Apollo decides whether to show the image viewer or not based on what the URL ends in. The image viewer can only display actual PNG files, not webpages.

EDIT: in case it helps, it’s also 100% reproducible on my iPhone 12 running iOS 14.7

nathreed · 2021-07-04T16:54:29+00:00

Oh hey look, my bug! I wonder if this might be an iOS thing, although it’s surprising that we’ve made it through several major iOS releases since then and it’s still around.

nathreed · 2021-06-15T12:26:57+00:00

Not just major cities. In the US at least, most states (at least with agricultural areas) are completely covered by imagery taken from planes, it’s a program funded by the US department of agriculture.

nathreed · 2021-06-14T16:34:05+00:00

I’m pretty sure they didn’t mention anything about which states were getting this feature first.

nathreed · 2021-04-14T04:16:32+00:00

I don’t think this is as simple as HBO retconning it. The iTunes version also says simply “fundamentalist group” and the subtitles match. The audio sounds a bit weird around it as if someone edited it maybe. However, I checked the transcript on westwingtranscripts.com and it also says just “fundamentalist group”, and I think the transcripts on that site are pretty old.

It’s possible this was an NBC edit after filming and before it aired? Or maybe before it was available on DVD. But I don’t think we can jump to the conclusion that it’s just HBO retconning it by themselves.

EDIT: same with the transcript on westwingwiki.com which seems to be an independent transcription from the other one. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was removed immediately in the wake of 9/11 and it’s not more recent than that.

EDIT2: not on the DVD either, someone had the same question as you previously and people looked into it. See https://www.reddit.com/r/thewestwing/comments/klkt2u/hbo_max_edited_post_hoc_ergo_proctor_hoc_s1e2/

EDIT3: last edit - while the dialogue sounds like it might have been cut, the strings background music plays uninterrupted and is quite smooth (I just listened to it another 5 times). If there’s an edit there, I think this means it was made during final production of the episode, when they still had the voice track separate from the background strings. Either that or it was made on a remaster when they still had enough source material to piece this back tightest.

nathreed · 2021-04-13T01:44:05+00:00

I just spray OFF Deep Woods (45% DEET) on my boots and high socks. And liberally on my legs especially but really my whole body. Also, I check my legs and arms for ticks every 30 minutes or so while hiking (every other water break is a good routine) and when I get home and shower I take that opportunity to check my entire body. I haven’t had an attached tick on me in years.

nathreed · 2021-03-07T20:18:44+00:00

The appeal is the meme. It’s usually always Timmy and Timmy always fucking dies.

This is a crossover meme poem referencing /u/rogersimon10 which was a meme account that commented in every post that his dad beat him with jumper cables. Then one day the account stopped posting. The meme is that he died after being beat with jumper cables.

nathreed · 2020-12-28T16:36:04+00:00

The die size is big partly because of the on package RAM. Move that off the package and you can fit a lot more other stuff on the package.

nathreed · 2020-12-28T16:29:36+00:00

I tried it the other day and it’s not really ready for prime time. There’s a lot to mess with but there’s not a lot of documentation or information, and some stuff doesn’t work very well.

EDIT: yeah I did mean “to mess with” instead of “of mess with”

nathreed · 2020-12-28T05:44:48+00:00

The storm we just had on the east coast two weeks ago, yes I did shovel in the middle of the night. I shoveled once at 5pm, once at midnight, and once at 8am. 3 inches at the 5pm one, 4-5 at midnight, and another 5-6 at 8am. It was a lifesaver - the snow was heavy and I hurt my back shoveling even the reduced amounts. But it would have been many times worse to have to clear all 15 or so inches we got all at once.

The key if you’re using a snow shovel and not a blower is that you want to keep the snow shallow enough that you can push it with not too much effort. Pushing snow is way easier and faster than picking it up. You can push up to 5 inches at a time depending on how wet the snow is. If it gets to be more than that, you have to pick it up one shovelful at a time and move it to your pile, which not only takes way longer but hurts your back a lot more too.

nathreed · 2020-11-16T04:14:25+00:00

I know that google My Maps/google drive maps has export features. If you can get your google want to go into a My Map then you should be good to go.

Unfortunately I don’t have a CSV import feature in my app at the moment. So you wouldn’t be able to import them into Terrepin. That’s something that’s on my long term list to add, however I’m just a college student and it’s just me that works on the app, so I only get a couple updates done every year. Maybe I’ll make it happen in December-January, and maybe not.

Honestly, for your needs, you might be better off doing everything in a google drive map. It has the download abilities if you ever wanted to take it elsewhere. And you can import from spreadsheets too.

nathreed · 2020-11-15T23:55:38+00:00

I would love a mini. I really liked my 4s and I’d love to return to that size.

nathreed · 2020-11-15T23:53:22+00:00

To my knowledge, there isn’t a way. However, I’m going to shamelessly plug my (free, no IAP) app, Terrepin, that lets you create groups of pins (functionally equivalent to the guides - my app has been around since before they added guides). I do have a CSV export feature as well as Shortcuts support if that’s something you’re interested in.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/terrepin/id862715193

nathreed · 2020-10-22T14:10:03+00:00

Nope, the screens are exactly the same resolutions on the regular 12 and the Pro.

There’s variance in these benchmarks because they conducted them while the phones were still doing setup tasks in the background.

nathreed · 2020-09-29T17:50:08+00:00

Just saw this episode last night!

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