guitarguru12
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- Jan 1, 2021
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Hello all - brand new to the forum, you can find my intro thread here if you're interested in my background.
So after much mulling, I hit upon an idea for a business that fulfills many of the criteria that @MJ DeMarco outlines - from the bit of market research I've done, it looks like a goer.
This business idea will exist entirely in a subscription-based app. The catch is, I know nothing about app design or coding.
After coming up with the idea, I signed up to Udemy and purchased it's top iOS app design course (entitled 'iOS & Swift - The Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp', if anyone fancies checking it out - it's very good!) in order to learn how to build my app.
In all honesty though I've been hit hard with just how steep the learning curve is. It's going to take some time to get to a level of expertise where I can pull this off, let alone the actual time to build the app itself. Now, I'm never one to shirk from a challenge, hard work or learning a new skill - however, I'd like to reach out to the community to see if there's anyone that has had success in the app realm and whether they took the DIY route as I've begun to, or whether it made more sense for them to have the app professionally designed.
The reason I went for DIY route initially are A) I'm a control freak and like the idea of the app being entirely my own, B) What a great skill to have going forward, but mostly C) I am completely broke and can't pay anyone right now to build the app for me. This can obviously be remedied through finding other sources of income to fund the venture - but I'm trying to keep startup costs as low as possible.
Interested to see if anyone here at the FLF have any thoughts, insights or wisdom with regard to all of this.
Very much appreciated, and looking forward to hearing from you guys
So after much mulling, I hit upon an idea for a business that fulfills many of the criteria that @MJ DeMarco outlines - from the bit of market research I've done, it looks like a goer.
This business idea will exist entirely in a subscription-based app. The catch is, I know nothing about app design or coding.
After coming up with the idea, I signed up to Udemy and purchased it's top iOS app design course (entitled 'iOS & Swift - The Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp', if anyone fancies checking it out - it's very good!) in order to learn how to build my app.
In all honesty though I've been hit hard with just how steep the learning curve is. It's going to take some time to get to a level of expertise where I can pull this off, let alone the actual time to build the app itself. Now, I'm never one to shirk from a challenge, hard work or learning a new skill - however, I'd like to reach out to the community to see if there's anyone that has had success in the app realm and whether they took the DIY route as I've begun to, or whether it made more sense for them to have the app professionally designed.
The reason I went for DIY route initially are A) I'm a control freak and like the idea of the app being entirely my own, B) What a great skill to have going forward, but mostly C) I am completely broke and can't pay anyone right now to build the app for me. This can obviously be remedied through finding other sources of income to fund the venture - but I'm trying to keep startup costs as low as possible.
Interested to see if anyone here at the FLF have any thoughts, insights or wisdom with regard to all of this.
Very much appreciated, and looking forward to hearing from you guys
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