{"id":393,"date":"2013-02-25T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T01:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2013-08-07T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T15:12:27","slug":"i-made-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/2013\/i-made-an-app\/","title":{"rendered":"I Made an App"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few of my friends and co-workers already know this, but I’ve been working on an app<\/a> in my off hours.<\/p>\n

Why? A number of reasons.<\/p>\n

First, I bought my daughter<\/a> an iPod touch, and although there are a lot of great games out there, I didn’t see exactly the alphabet game I’d give her.<\/p>\n

Second, I just don’t do that much real programming at work these days. I’ve slowly shifted into managing, and although I still take on the occasional project, I just can’t keep up with my duties if I do as much programming as would scratch my itch at work.<\/p>\n

Third, I had an idea that burned. Really, that’s probably first, now that I think about it.<\/p>\n

Now, the app isn’t for everybody. Actually, unless you’re under the age of four, you’ll probably not get much use or entertainment out of it.<\/p>\n

Although I think there is probably a profitable niche market here, I have no illusions that I’ll earn the order-of-magnitude more money selling Typey Typey than I do at my day job to be worth quitting<\/a>. I hope to make some amount money. Maybe save for Evelyn’s college – that would be awesome.<\/p>\n

I want to say thanks here to my lovely wife<\/a> for helping out with a few of the animal illustrations, as well as being patient with me when I stayed up nights scratching my itch. I also want to thank my beta testers, who suffered through TestFlight’s<\/a> opaque signup and device registration process to try things out and give feedback.<\/p>\n

The app itself is available today, but I’ve already got an update in review that adds a new font and a few more animals. I have about a million ideas on where I’m taking this thing, and I’ll likely continue to blog about my experiences and motivations here – though you can likely tell I’m keeping the real promotion for other venues.<\/p>\n

Anyway, feel free to grab the app – 99\u00a2 until I have all the letters of the alphabet paired up with an animal picture, then $1.99 – on iTunes<\/a>. Gift it to a friend with an old iPad and a young child. Send me feedback on Twitter via the @TypeyTypey<\/a> account. And thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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