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Show HN: I'm 36 years old and this iPhone app took me forever

22 pointsby wushuporkabout 12 years ago
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotestagram/id592666165?ls=1&#38;mt=8<p>Quotestagram is an iphone app that let's you easily turn memorable quotes into beautiful images to share on popular social networks. From concept to launch this app took 5 months. It was fraught with difficulties. I didn't know iOS programming. But the app is finally out and I would really love the community's feedback.

13 comments

keiferskiabout 12 years ago
Congrats on your first app. One suggestion: the Ayn Rand quote is a little off-putting. I'd suggest a quote by someone less polarizing.
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ronyehabout 12 years ago
Congrats on the launch! I know how hard it is to get something out the door... and 5 months isn't so bad at all, especially since you started from scratch.<p>Micro-suggestion regarding capitalization:<p>Did you consider Quotestagram vs. QuoteStagram? I feel like the first one looks a little better.<p>Also, I agree w/ the other commenter re: Ayn Rand quotes. Some folks love her writings, others do not. Maybe some inspirational quotes by Einstein or Edison?<p>"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." ~Albert Einstein<p>"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~Albert Einstein
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longbloomabout 12 years ago
I think this is a great app. Congratulations on launching! Sometimes I want to post quotes to Instagram and have had a hard time finding apps that allow me to do a text overlay like yours. Tweegram is the only other one that I have really found to allow this, but they put an ugly water mark in the lower corner of all your images. I thought a really cool feature was the ability to move the text around to different positions. One feature I haven't ever seen implemented it the option to add your own photos to the background. I would definitely shell out 99c for that!
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andygcookabout 12 years ago
I know this doesn't provide you feedback or any value to the conversation, but I wanted to say congratulations on launching your app. Five months is a long time and it's easy to give up at any point after the initial excitement of building wears off, so great work actually finishing the build.
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voidlogicabout 12 years ago
&#62;&#62;I'm 36 years old<p>What does this have to do with anything? 36 is neither young, nor old. Is he saying it took forever because he is 36? I would guess someone's first real software on any new platform takes them "forever" compared to app 5 or 6...
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gw666about 12 years ago
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotestagram/id592666165?ls=1&#38;mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotestagram/id592666165?ls=...</a> Quotestagram is an iphone app that let's you easily turn memorable quotes into beautiful images to share on popular social networks. From concept to launch this app took 5 months. It was fraught with difficulties. I didn't know iOS programming. But the app is finally out and I would really love the community's feedback.
askarabout 12 years ago
Congratulations on the launch...5 months is a long time and as a few said here it's easy to give up during this time.<p>I would suggest give it a little categories grouping and let people filter things through their preference. A way to filter through the person who quoted this wouldn't hurt too. More power to the people and they feel good.
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krivenabout 12 years ago
Congratulations on your launch! I like how simple it is to use. A suggestion would be to let the user include their own background.<p>It usually takes me months just to decide if I should work on something :). That's awesome that you were able to learn iOS programming and develop an app in just 5 months.
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27182818284about 12 years ago
Congratulations on getting something out there!<p>Out of my own curiosity, I've started trying to ask people who release a new app why they chose a particular platform first. In this case, is there any reason you chose iOS first? Do you ever plan to do an Android version?
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kohanzabout 12 years ago
Congratulations! I'd love to hear more background about the motivation for this app and the dev process. Are we talking 5 months of full-time development or 5-months as a side project? What motivated the project? What are your future plans?
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gw666about 12 years ago
Link: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotestagram/id592666165?ls=1&#38;mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotestagram/id592666165?ls=...</a>
momopabout 12 years ago
Nicely done! Was this a full time effort ? Please do come back and share how it is doing.
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deafeyeabout 12 years ago
what kinda techs did you choose to build it with? XCode out of the box? Phonegap?
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