Everyone is having problems earning too much money, exiting, having attracted the wrong crowd, clashing with co-founders. Meanwhile, I can code an app solo in two weeks, get it live, contact the niche, but don’t get any attention. I fail at failing.
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So you might want to find a business side cofounder.
Do you get attention when you contact the niche? Are you meaning you don't get the press to cover you? Perhaps you need to focus on niche press?
Know what kind of piece of shit can be coded in two weeks? The kind that you keep making and fail to find a market with.
I always bring up Flappy Bird and organic growth when I hear stories like this.
Make something popular. It'll spread on it;'s own.
Well, there are tens of millions of devs worldwide who can code an app in two weeks and put in on a store. All of them hope to become millionaires. Maybe two or three of them will. You have the same chances to get rich with such piece of shitty code than with a lottery ticket. But buying a lottery ticket takes 2 minutes, not 2 weeks.
Of course, if you can code something like office or autocad in two weeks, you deserve to get rich quickly. Can you ?
You're probably someone that took Noah Kagan's retarded wantrepreneur course and thinks he can validate ideas and build a business in 1 week.
+1
++1 Seriously never understood how people pay for his vapour. He really milks his once-worked-at-facebook-with-zuck (and was found not useful, so got booted out) to death.
Didn't he get his "validation" because of Tim Ferris? http://fourhourworkweek.com/2011/09/24/how-to-create-a-million-dollar-business-this-weekend-examples-appsumo-mint-chihuahuas/
YO ! , seriously 2 weeks ? Dude, it aint gonna happen
Stop ruining his dream. I think it depends on the app. You might need a business side person who knows PR, or you can do it yourself. Oh, and even it it only takes two weeks to build, just throw up a website and call it BETA for a little over six months or so. That way you get people using it, and you can get real feedback. Anyone can throw up something, but if no one knows it's there, then does it matter. Oh, and go to hackathons and tech events to talk about the one you are passionate about.
Making a product is 30% of the battle. Marketing your creation properly is 70% of the battle. It can take months for a new product to take off.
First of all - don't listen to all the idiots who don't believe a small solid app can't be written, tested and deployed by a single person in two weeks. Your problem is marketing - you need to put some initial money in to get the engine running. Contact reviewers on established site ($200/reviewer usually suffices), you gotta kick up some dirt for your app in order to get it off the ground. Congratz and good luck!
If you can do an app in 2 weeks, find a passion and build an app around that and dedicate 2 months to it? 2 weeks is not enough to build on a vision that is brand new. Give the vision time to breathe and grow- you're thinking too small and being elusive at the same time.
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