Million Bucks Project
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- animatedgif0
"Adobe tools ONLY"
Doomed from the start
- bjladams0
here are a couple that would make my life easier-
the first probably wouldn't sell to many, but being deaf - a real time dictation app would be awesome. there's dragon, but it's not very accurate, and quite slow. there are 500,000 ppl in the u.s. that are either deaf or close to it, and if most are like me, they'd be willing to pay more then 99 cents for a helpful app. even though a good chunk of those are 65 or older, deaf ppl will go out of their way to experience conversation. plus, most friends and fam would want to purchase it too.
second - an app that let you know how much is left on the parking meter. i guess it's just lazy to put in the money, look at the time, figure & round to the closest 5 min and hope to remember... but parking at 5-6 + meters a week and trying to remember if it was up at 3:35... or was that yesterday...
something where all you had to imput was the time on the meter and it synced with the clock and gave you 30 min, 10 min, 5 min and 2 min alarms. i'm sure there's something out there though...- there's an app for that parking thing already.ESKEMA
- http://www.istormapp…ESKEMA
- but that ones only on the iphone.bjladams
- im deaf in one ear due to an accident as a kid.plash
- Dragon has probably spent millions on their technology. Its not very accurate because the problem is complexanimatedgif
- maikel0
Good luck Boz, I hope you will make it.
Even if you get to half a million... there's nothing to complain about, aye?
- ESKEMA0
the problem I see in you social idea is that you'll require a good server to serve those million users, which cost money.
try something simpler that does not require servers...
- brandelec0
best of luck BOZ
- cannonball19780
Gonna need a whizbang idea.
Also you might think about getting Adobe sponsorship if you're limiting yourself that way.
- pillhead0
Remember to add fizz to the app.
- Boz0
when I say social I mean it will allow you to share shit on facebook and friends and stuff not to host on my servers ..know what I mean?
Btw.. one of the reasons I'm using Adobe only tools is because I can probably get a huge backing by Adobe by having case study and stuff like that published by them which will definitely help a lot with marketing it.
- twokids0
I am sure it will be easy. They you can write a book about it and make another million bucks.
- zenmasterfoo0
Good luck, Boz. I do remember reading somewhere that to actually get a million dollar app the numbers are stacked against you. By that I mean astronomically high downloads. I like that you're attempting this though, especially multiple platforms.
Good read about success in app building:
http://tapity.com/iphone-app-des…
- skelly_b0
Interesting to see someone put Adobe's "build it once, publish everywhere" claims to the test.
- Boz0
I'm taking everyone's ideas and suggestions seriously... definitely trying to be open as much as possible..
And you know.. one of the things I'm trying to do here is help people who want to build apps and what obstacles and issues they might stumble upon and naturally using cross-platform tools like Adobe stuff so you are OS agnostic while building apps in the shortest possible time mind you.
- microkorg0
Haha, good luck dude.
Its great to be able to have the time to dedicate to a project like that.
- 4040
make sure you add reflections http://www.qbn.com/topics/654226…
- hiten0
dude that's a badass idea...best of luck and yeah whatever you end up with I'll buy one.
- dMullins0
Dumb thread of the year.
- dbloc0
build an app where you can slingshot birds into blocks and knock them down.
- kona0
good luck bud!
- monospaced0
"...and we'll have a few laughs if I fail miserably :)"
Damn straight we will.
- jamie6553210
Isn't everyone in this industry trying to come up with a million dollar iphone app at the moment?
But what roughly is your idea? The criteria you've listed surely sound like what goes through every ones head trying to build apps??.. build an app that: 1. Is Useful. 2. Looks Pretty. 3. Is liked by everyone. 4. Has Millions of downloads( in the least time possible). 5. Requires Minimum Effort ( in the least time possible). 6. Uses social media to share content. 7. Makes me 1 million dollars.
F**k man, if it was this easy everyone would do it.. and i definitely wouldn't be posting here in 4 months time telling us you've done it, or handing out amazon vouchers... i'd be on a beach supping mojitos from some chick's tits!! :)
But good luck though..