@@seanallen 100% This series is going to help a lot of people, and it is crazy that over 6-7 years ago I was on the grind to be a dev and your videos uncovering your challenges with the interview process helped me realize I was not the only one breaking through this crazy barrier. Always thankful man! ☕
I’m just about done with my first “serious” app and really don’t have much of a clue where to go from here. So this is very timely for me. My current goal is to build a portfolio but really, working for myself is the dream. So thank you. I’ll def be keenly following the episodes.
Congrats on your app! The topic of portfolio of apps vs. one app is something I plan on covering in future episodes. It's a big question every indie dev has.
This show looks very promising Sean! And you just convinced me to bump up my ASA budget as well. It's still way lower than your budget, but pumping back that initial revenue into the app is my philosophy as well.
Catching up with the show. Great start, keep them coming 🎉 Absolutely agree that it is doable to make a living from own app development and that is more fun than working on somone else dreams
Sean - excellent new show! I am a retired electrical engineer who is writing an app I’ve wanted for myself my whole life. I’m now developing that app and have been looking into marketing and business topics. The show is exactly on target for me. This is very exciting! Thank you so much, and good luck with your app. 🤞
The value of this podcast could be incredible! Are you serious? It could be a game changer, like me who have many ideas but don't know where to start will love it!
23:55 I'm not sure if this is good or bad; the app total turnover going down 2%, i e. What I do ask though is have there been too many people aiming at selling apps rather than building nieche content in which the user needs? I mean if you want reoccuring what users are willing to pay for is something that enables / arms the users to do more. There are clearly several markets out there, this far I have always work on productivity in particular workflow management, in which clearly have different KPIs for success than that of the entertainment industry.
Hey Sean, I’ve been following your content for a long while now and it’s been very interesting to learning things here and there and improve my skills. However, once I’ve gotten my first junior iOS job I’ve had plenty to learn there (and still do) with a lot of experienced devs to ask questions and learn from. Now THIS has me excited as I’ve been thinking of starting to make some of my own apps and publishing them on the AppStore. This is exactly the motivation people need to get started (at least that’s what I think) so I’m really excited for this new content you’ll be making! :)
Been Following you since your initial iOS interview tips video series. Thanks for helping the community (Me included of course) and wish you all the very best.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for driving content in this direction. I’ve been trying to piece together things from App Masters, my Mobile Development degree from Full Sail, Medium articles, and am working towards building a small subscription-based app for a targeted community…which obviously needs marketing and ASO to be successful. My struggle-point is developing ideas for applications and feel that the App Store is saturated and almost everything that could be built has been built. Whether that’s a lie or truth in reality, I’m right there with you…we have this ability…so let’s figure out how to use it for our own financial success and reduce the dependency for Corporate America to help us make ends meet.
Hi Sean! Thanks for all the videos and courses you have already done. I've learnt a lot from them and today I've landed an Intern iOS Developer position. Also. I hope this live show/podcast will inspire me to create my own app to make a profit :). Thanks again!
Hey Sean, do you plan to publish your podcast as audio-only on all known podcast platforms? I hope it won't get into multi-hour conversations, which are difficult to digest. Personally, I'd love a 30-minute long episodes I can listen to/watch on my lunch break. Good luck, I'm already subscribed!
Hey Matthew, yes there will be an audio only version on podcast platforms. It takes a few days to get setup for a new podcast and flowing to all platforms. My target run-time for each episode is 30 minutes, so sounds like it's right for you!
I will be following this closely. I recently became a professional and need to start my own projects. I know too much to not build something amazing. My main rockblock was feeling like its going to be unsuccesful, but thats the actual failure.
It's not easy to make a successful app, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't go for it. Best of luck and I hope this series helps. Would love to hear your feedback so I can make it better.
Go ahead and continue this podcast, I think for most indie developers including me the marketing, ASO, and all the topics you have mentioned are blury, and hard to achieve any progress in this field, thank you for your efforts to create this helpful podcast.
This series will bring a lot of value to Indie devs. I'd like to see a follow up with those who started to apply guidance from this series and how it changed their outcomes. I expect this could be a 1 to 2 year timeline but would be very helpful to devs.
Really looking forward to these videos. Thank for bringing us along as you work on this. I'm starting to work on building a portfolio and look for an app idea. I wondered if you had also considered asking established TH-camrs to promote your app.
There is a whole genre of TH-camrs who teach other TH-camrs how to TH-cam :). I plan on reaching out to them after I have initial traction and the product improves a bit.
Will your app not compile for iOS 15? I'm on iPhone SE1 in which appears to have terminal OS version 15.x; will try to install on iPad, downloaded fine on my iPad 2018 Pro.
Bravo, Sean. This was really good, useful. Thank you. This could be an invaluble resource for iOS devs. As you say, there's been a lot of concentration on programming, but very little on the actual business of app development. I'm VERY much against the idea of "build it and they will come". Spoiler: they won't come if they don't know about it. So, I'm really glad you''re tackling the subjects that devs so often want to avoid like the plague. Some suggestions: - do you have failure conditions for your app? i.e. numbers or outcomes that tell you that you should desist, or sideline the app for a while, or at least rethink things? Something to keep you on track, instead of ploughing time and money in to a project that may not be working? I went 3 years on one app before having to call it quits. I never set proper boundaries, mostly out of fear that if I did, what happens when I fail? - a personal thing: please don't use stock footage. IMO, it presents a distorted, fake view of the world. Such video footage may be OK for aspirational video channels (but even then...), but for developers, we know that real development life isn't shiny, happy, immaculately dressed, multiculturally-sensitive models with perfect teeth working in pristine offices with a desk cactus. Real development is cables, notepaper everywhere, being unshaven, headaches, pyjamas and too much caffeine. :p I think it's important to relate to fellow developers on a realistic level, instead of projecting these curated, photoshopped images of perfection. (Rant finished!) - with the App Store sales figures, it may be worthwhile to consider them with Pareto's distribution in mind, as a worst-case. - I would love you to discuss more the (big) difference between programming something, and being in product development. I think this a key problem area in our industry. Cheers, and good luck with the videos and the app business.
I appreciate the feedback W0mbles! This was the first episode, so naturally there will be iterations and improvements. Thanks for taking the time and I've noted these. As for the stock footage, I get what you are saying. Does the stock footage bother you only when it relates to showing software developers? Or all of it? The issue is that I need visuals to emphasize a certain point and just to break up the monotony of staring at my face for 30 minutes. Of course, I don't have to time or resources to go film that stuff myself, so I rely on stock footage.
@@seanallen Sean, I really wouldn't worry about you being monotonous. You'll find that when people have something interesting, useful to say, the audience will pay attention. The stock footage is usually employed as a distraction or filler, for when the actual content is lacking. IMO, this "visual imperitive" can actually harm the creator's message. Plus, I think the imagery themselves are psychological poison, due to their falseness, but I can go on all day about that. :p I think your content, your message is enough. If you do need to cut away from your face, I suggest just showing your apps. Or other people's apps. Or code, or your own work environment. When you're selling you and your own ideas, it's really important to keep you real. Cheers.
Interesting insights. When choosing the stock footage my mind was focused on imagery to help illustrate my point. It didn't occur to me that the perfectly shot footage of developers could send the wrong message.
I’m looking forward to this series and how things unfold. I have a moderately successful game app in the App Store, which has allowed me to finally be independent. A lot of the things you said resonated with me. I’m curious, would you consider developing for Android and the web as well? I found not limiting myself to just iOS was helpful in achieving a higher level of success. Thanks again. I’ll be watching.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the first episode. More to come! Android is potentially on the long-term roadmap. But only after I've proven success on iOS. A big part of what I wanted from the product was that native Apple experience. I know that really narrows my market, but that's where I'm starting. Best of luck with the game!
This video came right on time! I’m currently learning iOS development because it’s something I’ve been passionate about for a while but I also just started a career in cybersecurity where my skill set does well for me. I feel would be foolish of me to abandon this career path in the current job market. I’d come to the conclusion that I was just gonna make my own apps and create another income from them so this series will be very helpful. Thanks Sean.
Hi Sean! First of all congrats for your channel! It totally rocks! … I wanted to ask you: I totally love swift and native iOS development, but… Aren’t you missing some important share over the Android users market? What is your thinking regarding developing cross-platform vs. Native platform. Thanks! (Ps. Sorry for my bad english, its not my native language)
I think it depends on your product and the market you want to target. Of course, I'm missing out on all the TH-camrs who are Android users, but I wanted to build a product build for, and native to, Apple platforms (with syncing between devices). It was important to be to be a native app. Also, I only know Swift and iOS so that plays a significant role in the decision.
can you make a video about what if we make our app for free and use Admob or any other advertising in our app ? first of all how implement it ? how we can make the user choose between advertising. or paying and how much we can earn from how many download or impression , please go this road and guide us because now most users prefer free app with ads
That's really so inspiring! Thank you for sharing this knowledge and experience, because it's just priceless and I believe that lots of people charge huge chunks of money for what you are sharing for free. Can't wait to see your app making 1M ARR
For myself, as a user, showing the paywall at the end of the onboarding is okay. Either there's enough info during the onboarding to make a commitment to subscribe, or there isn't. Odds are, there won't be enough because I won't know what it's actually like to use the app or whether I'm likely to use it enough to be worth shelling out $$$. For myself, as a user, showing the "please rate this app" at the end of the onboarding is a mistake, because I haven't used the app, and it's entirely possible the app's usability is really bad. Of course, I can re-rate the app at any time as long as it's available in the App Store, but it's still an annoyance. In truth, I rate the apps I use regularly or which I find to be awful, without being asked.
I agree that asking for rating is a lesser user experience and it seems counter intuitive. But, check out the next episode to see the initial results (spoilers - it's working). Enough people are just hitting 5 stars and moving on. After my app gets enough downloads to rank well, I plan on pulling back on this a bit.
I agree and I address that at the 2:44 mark of the video. I plan on bringing in experts and other successful indie devs to discuss topics while I share my experience and what I'm doing with my own app. I've never claimed to be an authority (yet).
It might be hard to find successful developers to be involved because they are likely too busy working on their apps rather than wasting time on social media.
I need to have a professional take a crack at the logo, but I was going for an old school computer look so that was intentional. Why do you say the title (Build, Ship, Profit) is unfriendly to iOS dev?
@@seanallen The title of the video is ok, I was meaning the title of the app, I'm not an youtuber so maybe I shouldn't be the one to judge but the title "Creator view" sounds more like a component for an app rather than a product in itself. Nevertheless, I really hope you succeed and wish you all the best with the app and the podcast. Are you familiar with the way Paul Graham advices founders at Y Combinator to grow their products from the ground up? He has a saying about making products that don't scale and then try to sell the product to at least one person, once you have one, you can repeat the process 10 times and then a 100 times and so on. In such a manner you basically grow based on the customer needs (which basically facilitates the natural growth) rather than just pushing your app up the ratings and hope for the best.
Ah, I see what you mean about the app name. Creator View doesn't have any developer connotation to a TH-camr, but I see where you're coming from as a developer. I'm familiar with Paul Graham and have consumed YC's content for years now. It's timeless advice that I'm taking in. It's tough to share ALL my thoughts and EVERYTHING I'm doing in a TH-cam video - but I'm all onboard with YC's advice.
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Yes!!!!
Wow, thanks for the long-time support Harold. I appreciate that 😀
@@seanallen 100% This series is going to help a lot of people, and it is crazy that over 6-7 years ago I was on the grind to be a dev and your videos uncovering your challenges with the interview process helped me realize I was not the only one breaking through this crazy barrier. Always thankful man! ☕
I’m just about done with my first “serious” app and really don’t have much of a clue where to go from here. So this is very timely for me. My current goal is to build a portfolio but really, working for myself is the dream. So thank you. I’ll def be keenly following the episodes.
Congrats on your app! The topic of portfolio of apps vs. one app is something I plan on covering in future episodes. It's a big question every indie dev has.
This show looks very promising Sean! And you just convinced me to bump up my ASA budget as well. It's still way lower than your budget, but pumping back that initial revenue into the app is my philosophy as well.
Thanks Flo! I've been having a lot of fun trying to figure out Apple Search Ads. I'll have plenty of content around that coming in the future.
Catching up with the show. Great start, keep them coming 🎉
Absolutely agree that it is doable to make a living from own app development and that is more fun than working on somone else dreams
Glad you liked it, Aivars. More to come!
Literally just wrapped up lunch with a friend and this was a large part of the conversation. Perfect timing.
Happy to hear it, Addison. Hope you enjoy the new content!
Excited for this series Sean!! I’ve loved following along seeing you build Creator View!
Thanks Mikaela!
Oooh, awesome!
I like the idea of the show, excited to follow the progress.
Looking forward to seeing the next episode!
Good luck!
Thanks for watching 😀. See ya next episode.
Amazing! Really need this content in our community, will be keenly waiting for eps
Hope you enjoy it, Manan! Would love to hear your feedback so I can make future episodes better.
Sean - excellent new show! I am a retired electrical engineer who is writing an app I’ve wanted for myself my whole life. I’m now developing that app and have been looking into marketing and business topics. The show is exactly on target for me. This is very exciting! Thank you so much, and good luck with your app. 🤞
Glad you liked it, Frank! Brand new episode coming out tomorrow.
The value of this podcast could be incredible! Are you serious? It could be a game changer, like me who have many ideas but don't know where to start will love it!
That's my goal for it! It will take a few episodes to find my groove, but I think it has awesome potential. Hope you enjoy it!
I am thrilled about this! After leaving a comment on one of your videos, I stumbled upon this one. It's absolutely mind-blowing!
Much more to come with this series…
23:55 I'm not sure if this is good or bad; the app total turnover going down 2%, i e. What I do ask though is have there been too many people aiming at selling apps rather than building nieche content in which the user needs? I mean if you want reoccuring what users are willing to pay for is something that enables / arms the users to do more. There are clearly several markets out there, this far I have always work on productivity in particular workflow management, in which clearly have different KPIs for success than that of the entertainment industry.
I've been following you for a while now I'm grateful for all the content. Thank you and I wish you all the best
Thanks Nathan! Hope you enjoy the show.
23:10 Are the ratings worth anything if the ratings are not max?
For ASO, yes. But of course, if you have all 1 star reviews, that's not good for the human that actually downloads the app.
Hey Sean, I’ve been following your content for a long while now and it’s been very interesting to learning things here and there and improve my skills. However, once I’ve gotten my first junior iOS job I’ve had plenty to learn there (and still do) with a lot of experienced devs to ask questions and learn from. Now THIS has me excited as I’ve been thinking of starting to make some of my own apps and publishing them on the AppStore. This is exactly the motivation people need to get started (at least that’s what I think) so I’m really excited for this new content you’ll be making! :)
This is the exact reason I wanted to create this show 😀
Been Following you since your initial iOS interview tips video series. Thanks for helping the community (Me included of course) and wish you all the very best.
I appreciate that, Damitha 😀
Thank you, thank you, thank you for driving content in this direction. I’ve been trying to piece together things from App Masters, my Mobile Development degree from Full Sail, Medium articles, and am working towards building a small subscription-based app for a targeted community…which obviously needs marketing and ASO to be successful. My struggle-point is developing ideas for applications and feel that the App Store is saturated and almost everything that could be built has been built. Whether that’s a lie or truth in reality, I’m right there with you…we have this ability…so let’s figure out how to use it for our own financial success and reduce the dependency for Corporate America to help us make ends meet.
New episode coming soon!
THIS IS GREAT, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE INTERVIEWS.
Glad you enjoyed it. New episode coming soon with updates.
looking forward to this new series
Thanks Jason!
Hi Sean! Thanks for all the videos and courses you have already done. I've learnt a lot from them and today I've landed an Intern iOS Developer position.
Also. I hope this live show/podcast will inspire me to create my own app to make a profit :). Thanks again!
Congrats on the internship!
Wow great show. It's exactly what I need right now! Started full time indie 3 months ago!
Hope you enjoy the episodes, Gil!
Really looking forward to this, Sean! This is immensely valuable
Hope you enjoy it, Shakiba. Would love to hear your feedback (good and bad) as this is the first episode. Always looking to iterate and improve on it.
Love the idea - can't wait!
Hope you enjoy it, Phil 👍
Hey Sean, do you plan to publish your podcast as audio-only on all known podcast platforms? I hope it won't get into multi-hour conversations, which are difficult to digest. Personally, I'd love a 30-minute long episodes I can listen to/watch on my lunch break. Good luck, I'm already subscribed!
Hey Matthew, yes there will be an audio only version on podcast platforms. It takes a few days to get setup for a new podcast and flowing to all platforms. My target run-time for each episode is 30 minutes, so sounds like it's right for you!
I will be following this closely. I recently became a professional and need to start my own projects. I know too much to not build something amazing. My main rockblock was feeling like its going to be unsuccesful, but thats the actual failure.
It's not easy to make a successful app, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't go for it. Best of luck and I hope this series helps. Would love to hear your feedback so I can make it better.
Nice! Good luck with the podcast, Sean!
Thanks Victor 👍
That is awesome series! Excited to see the next one 🎉
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Great show. Keep em coming.
Sean, I'm excited about this. It's exactly what I need right now. Thanks!
Hope it's helpful to your app, Glenn!
I’m so excited for the series! This couldn’t have come at a better time 🙌
Glad to hear it. More to come!
Go ahead and continue this podcast, I think for most indie developers including me the marketing, ASO, and all the topics you have mentioned are blury, and hard to achieve any progress in this field, thank you for your efforts to create this helpful podcast.
That's my goal for the show. To help out in those areas.
Hey Sean, this is an amazing idea for a video series! I wish you good luck on the app, and that this series helps us all. :D
Hopefully its helpful and you get some valuable tips from it, Juan.
My first app earned 4 usd for first 60 days in appstore!
It's a start!
Thank you for the transparency. Really appreciate it and this video came a great time for me. Love what you do, thanks man.
Glad you like it, Joshua 👍
Love this! Such valuable info!
Glad you liked it, Brittany!
This series will bring a lot of value to Indie devs. I'd like to see a follow up with those who started to apply guidance from this series and how it changed their outcomes. I expect this could be a 1 to 2 year timeline but would be very helpful to devs.
Glad you think so, Brennan. I would also be curious to hear how this impacts devs over the long run. Good point.
Great Sean always love your video and you inspire me.
Happy to hear it, Paul 👍
You and I were in the same hole probably. Of course, I don’t make apps yet. Looking forward to this series. Love your reasoning
We probably were. There's not a TON out there.
Thanks a lot for this Sean. Can you please make an episode on how to find profitable app ideas?
I'll add it to the ever growing idea list 😀
@@seanallen Thanks 😀
Really looking forward to these videos. Thank for bringing us along as you work on this. I'm starting to work on building a portfolio and look for an app idea. I wondered if you had also considered asking established TH-camrs to promote your app.
There is a whole genre of TH-camrs who teach other TH-camrs how to TH-cam :). I plan on reaching out to them after I have initial traction and the product improves a bit.
Thank you for making this. This is something I’ve been looking for, and I believe others will benefit from. Can’t wait for this!
I agree there isn't a lot of this content out there. Hopefully I can help fix that.
Will your app not compile for iOS 15? I'm on iPhone SE1 in which appears to have terminal OS version 15.x; will try to install on iPad, downloaded fine on my iPad 2018 Pro.
It requires iOS 16. I made that decisions because it was a brand new app (no existing users) and iOS 16 is much nicer to work with in SwiftUI.
This is exactly what I need!
Happy to hear it 😀
Bravo, Sean. This was really good, useful. Thank you.
This could be an invaluble resource for iOS devs. As you say, there's been a lot of concentration on programming, but very little on the actual business of app development.
I'm VERY much against the idea of "build it and they will come". Spoiler: they won't come if they don't know about it. So, I'm really glad you''re tackling the subjects that devs so often want to avoid like the plague.
Some suggestions:
- do you have failure conditions for your app? i.e. numbers or outcomes that tell you that you should desist, or sideline the app for a while, or at least rethink things? Something to keep you on track, instead of ploughing time and money in to a project that may not be working? I went 3 years on one app before having to call it quits. I never set proper boundaries, mostly out of fear that if I did, what happens when I fail?
- a personal thing: please don't use stock footage. IMO, it presents a distorted, fake view of the world. Such video footage may be OK for aspirational video channels (but even then...), but for developers, we know that real development life isn't shiny, happy, immaculately dressed, multiculturally-sensitive models with perfect teeth working in pristine offices with a desk cactus. Real development is cables, notepaper everywhere, being unshaven, headaches, pyjamas and too much caffeine. :p I think it's important to relate to fellow developers on a realistic level, instead of projecting these curated, photoshopped images of perfection. (Rant finished!)
- with the App Store sales figures, it may be worthwhile to consider them with Pareto's distribution in mind, as a worst-case.
- I would love you to discuss more the (big) difference between programming something, and being in product development. I think this a key problem area in our industry.
Cheers, and good luck with the videos and the app business.
I appreciate the feedback W0mbles! This was the first episode, so naturally there will be iterations and improvements. Thanks for taking the time and I've noted these.
As for the stock footage, I get what you are saying. Does the stock footage bother you only when it relates to showing software developers? Or all of it? The issue is that I need visuals to emphasize a certain point and just to break up the monotony of staring at my face for 30 minutes. Of course, I don't have to time or resources to go film that stuff myself, so I rely on stock footage.
@@seanallen Sean, I really wouldn't worry about you being monotonous.
You'll find that when people have something interesting, useful to say, the audience will pay attention.
The stock footage is usually employed as a distraction or filler, for when the actual content is lacking.
IMO, this "visual imperitive" can actually harm the creator's message.
Plus, I think the imagery themselves are psychological poison, due to their falseness, but I can go on all day about that. :p
I think your content, your message is enough.
If you do need to cut away from your face, I suggest just showing your apps. Or other people's apps. Or code, or your own work environment.
When you're selling you and your own ideas, it's really important to keep you real.
Cheers.
Interesting insights. When choosing the stock footage my mind was focused on imagery to help illustrate my point. It didn't occur to me that the perfectly shot footage of developers could send the wrong message.
Let’s go!!!!!
I’m looking forward to this series and how things unfold. I have a moderately successful game app in the App Store, which has allowed me to finally be independent. A lot of the things you said resonated with me. I’m curious, would you consider developing for Android and the web as well? I found not limiting myself to just iOS was helpful in achieving a higher level of success. Thanks again. I’ll be watching.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the first episode. More to come! Android is potentially on the long-term roadmap. But only after I've proven success on iOS. A big part of what I wanted from the product was that native Apple experience. I know that really narrows my market, but that's where I'm starting. Best of luck with the game!
loving this vid since 2017
This video came right on time! I’m currently learning iOS development because it’s something I’ve been passionate about for a while but I also just started a career in cybersecurity where my skill set does well for me. I feel would be foolish of me to abandon this career path in the current job market. I’d come to the conclusion that I was just gonna make my own apps and create another income from them so this series will be very helpful. Thanks Sean.
Making your own products.... I love it. Best of luck!
This is so good ❤
Glad you liked it, Leonardo 😀
I wish you were still making this podcast.
Awesome content
I appreciate that :)
lets goooo!!!!!
Hi Sean! First of all congrats for your channel! It totally rocks! … I wanted to ask you: I totally love swift and native iOS development, but… Aren’t you missing some important share over the Android users market? What is your thinking regarding developing cross-platform vs. Native platform. Thanks! (Ps. Sorry for my bad english, its not my native language)
I think it depends on your product and the market you want to target. Of course, I'm missing out on all the TH-camrs who are Android users, but I wanted to build a product build for, and native to, Apple platforms (with syncing between devices). It was important to be to be a native app. Also, I only know Swift and iOS so that plays a significant role in the decision.
can you make a video about what if we make our app for free and use Admob or any other advertising in our app ? first of all how implement it ? how we can make the user choose between advertising. or paying and how much we can earn from how many download or impression , please go this road and guide us because now most users prefer free app with ads
That's really so inspiring! Thank you for sharing this knowledge and experience, because it's just priceless and I believe that lots of people charge huge chunks of money for what you are sharing for free. Can't wait to see your app making 1M ARR
Thanks for the kind words, Andy. Hopefully we get there one day!
awesome! i'm in (y)
Nice!
For myself, as a user, showing the paywall at the end of the onboarding is okay. Either there's enough info during the onboarding to make a commitment to subscribe, or there isn't. Odds are, there won't be enough because I won't know what it's actually like to use the app or whether I'm likely to use it enough to be worth shelling out $$$.
For myself, as a user, showing the "please rate this app" at the end of the onboarding is a mistake, because I haven't used the app, and it's entirely possible the app's usability is really bad. Of course, I can re-rate the app at any time as long as it's available in the App Store, but it's still an annoyance. In truth, I rate the apps I use regularly or which I find to be awful, without being asked.
I agree that asking for rating is a lesser user experience and it seems counter intuitive. But, check out the next episode to see the initial results (spoilers - it's working). Enough people are just hitting 5 stars and moving on. After my app gets enough downloads to rank well, I plan on pulling back on this a bit.
@@seanallen Cannot argue with experience! Thanks for the reply, and I'll check out the next episode.
I see you repping Hornets!
I’m a simple man, I see new vid from Sean, I watch, I like
I appreciate the support, Nathaniel 😀
if you haven't done it you cannot teach it, that simple !!
I agree and I address that at the 2:44 mark of the video. I plan on bringing in experts and other successful indie devs to discuss topics while I share my experience and what I'm doing with my own app. I've never claimed to be an authority (yet).
I feel like its more like "Build, ship, need money, podcast, profit" but has less of a ring to it
Because it's sponsored?
I'M SO SLIMEY SLATTTTT 🐍
It might be hard to find successful developers to be involved because they are likely too busy working on their apps rather than wasting time on social media.
I disagree
This channel is garbage propaganda. He works for apple I think
Your logo looks very old to be honest and the title is very unfriendly to an iOS developer
I need to have a professional take a crack at the logo, but I was going for an old school computer look so that was intentional. Why do you say the title (Build, Ship, Profit) is unfriendly to iOS dev?
@@seanallen The title of the video is ok, I was meaning the title of the app, I'm not an youtuber so maybe I shouldn't be the one to judge but the title "Creator view" sounds more like a component for an app rather than a product in itself. Nevertheless, I really hope you succeed and wish you all the best with the app and the podcast.
Are you familiar with the way Paul Graham advices founders at Y Combinator to grow their products from the ground up? He has a saying about making products that don't scale and then try to sell the product to at least one person, once you have one, you can repeat the process 10 times and then a 100 times and so on. In such a manner you basically grow based on the customer needs (which basically facilitates the natural growth) rather than just pushing your app up the ratings and hope for the best.
Ah, I see what you mean about the app name. Creator View doesn't have any developer connotation to a TH-camr, but I see where you're coming from as a developer.
I'm familiar with Paul Graham and have consumed YC's content for years now. It's timeless advice that I'm taking in. It's tough to share ALL my thoughts and EVERYTHING I'm doing in a TH-cam video - but I'm all onboard with YC's advice.