Million Bucks Project
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- 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.
- pillhead0
Remember to add fizz to the app.
- cannonball19780
Gonna need a whizbang idea.
Also you might think about getting Adobe sponsorship if you're limiting yourself that way.
- brandelec0
best of luck BOZ
- 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...
- 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?
- 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
- animatedgif0
"Adobe tools ONLY"
Doomed from the start
- mydo0
sorry to be a kill buzz boz, but you'd need to have 3.3 million downloads to make a million dollars on a 99c app.
but if you make one. i'll buy it.
- sorry dude, but your math skills smell like moldy cheese. "sorry to be a kill buzz"flackblag1
- App store commission, mydo is referring toBH26
- yupmoldero
- sorry. 1.4 million.mydo
- GeorgesII0
boz,
I remember year's ago I had this genius Idea to make a million $$$
now I'm not allowed to get near a bank anymore,:(
hope yours will be better :)
- BaskerviIle0
um, if you sell for 99¢ then at a million downloads you'd still be $10,000 short of a million...just saying :)
- sublocked0
So...is this gonna be like http://www.milliondollarhomepage… ??
- BuddhaHat0
I know thisarticle relates mostly to unpaid social media apps desgned on generating advertising profits, but given you're looking at an app in the social media spectrum, it still might be an interesting read.
- Boz0
I'll give you an example..
I've built this to help me generate 3d covers for my PS3 Media Server..
http://www.worldinhidef.com/ps3m…
I am getting about 300-1000 hits a day and it really does such a simple thing.. and I get emails people asking to give me money.. and I built it in 4 hours with the Amazon API and all..
So making a mobile app that looks nicer in a few weeks and is usefull shouldn't be a big problem I think.
- sublocked0
Hustlin. Interested to see where this goes.
- pinkfloyd0
Can I get 5 amazon gift cards?
- :)pinkfloyd
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- Meh, too much effortpinkfloyd
- susanpcool0
You can build a great app using www.wiziapp.com
You should check them out!
- Boz0
The idea is to invest $0 except utilizing my own creatiivity, coding or whatever is needed.. publish it to the largest audience I can.. and see how it goes..
I've been always curious whether I can do it,especially with the growth of Adobe tools because I can build stuff with those tools in weeks and not months and publish to each platform thus doubling the audience.
I am strong believer that you don't necessarily have to make stuff super original in mobile space to be successful, you just look at what's out there, make it nicer, better even more useful and publish like that..and of course, if I can get it to market and somehow make it an "in" app, this will make it happen a lot faster..
We'll see.. the interesting thing is that failure in this case is really nothing.. no loss, but if I succeed, I got a million bucks :)
- this is not to say that I don't like crazy cool original ideas.. but for this experiment is to see how easy it is to make a million bucks.Boz
- And of course you could "fail" and only make 10k or something:)ukit
- or impossibleBoz
- True, you don't need an original idea, or ultimate 'killer app'. Viral and entertaining is key I think.BuddhaHat
- ukit0
Boz, since you encouraged us to share our ideas...seems to me the hard part will not be so much building the app but getting the word out. I have no doubt you can create an app in a few weeks if you put your mind to it, a great one even. But how do you attract the "hits" needed to make millions?
- it is a puzzler.. this is what it will take a month or two or whatever.. you are right.Boz
- susanpcool0
This is great. I wonder why everyone doesn't label this as spam.