App Academy is an intensive web development course in San Francisco

I recommended this class to a friend of mine, she applied, but the day of acceptance came and went and she never even got a rejection email. I emailed Ned and never heard back either. It seems that all they managed to do was add her to their mailing list. So I cannot recommend them anymore for their way of dealing with applicants. Simply not responding is rude and unprofessional.

This should have been an ASK HN question: But I am wondering how a curriculum like this could possible place a candidate into Apple, eBay, Twilio, or Box? I thought the interview process for those companies involve low-level, tough algorithm/data structure problems, which requires an intensive college education or participation in TopCoder, CoderChef... -- not just how many shiny toys you can play with (iOS, HTML, JS, CSS, ruby...)<p>It would be interesting to see statistics on those candidates being placed into those top companies<p>Please advise

Ok, so you're competing directly with Dev Bootcamp (<a href="http://devbootcamp.com" rel="nofollow">http://devbootcamp.com</a>) by underpricing them.<p>I'm reading the tuition section here: <a href="http://www.appacademy.io/description" rel="nofollow">http://www.appacademy.io/description</a><p>It looks like the student pays you 12.5% of their first year's salary. Normally wouldn't the hiring company pay?<p>If I'm reading it right -- and I might not be -- how is that different than a student loan? Wouldn't that just be 12.5% off the top of their first year's salary? It's not like a potential employer would offer 12.5% more just because you're charging the student.<p>You've already run a few iOS classes, too. Can you talk about outcomes?

Hi there, this sounds incredibly effective and I know a number of very talented friends who'd be interested. I briefly read through the description but couldn't find the answers to the following questions:<p>1. How are accommodations handled? Do we have to arrange that on our own or are they provided?<p>2. Do you help with visas? My friends are Canadian so not sure whether they can stay for 9 weeks in the USA without a student visa.<p>3. Does the entrepreneur lesson plan differ at all from the regular employment plan? Or are you in the same plan and just pay differently?<p>Thanks in advance for your help, phenomenal company and vision.

I find it a bit weird that you have shifted from iOS to Rails given: 1) There is an established rails bootcamp in the area (Dev Bootcamp) while there are very few iOS bootcamps anywhere 2) Before yesterday, the website was taking applications for iOS classes 3) The only batch of students you've had go through your program were iOS students and haven't been placed yet<p>Makes it a bit hard to judge the quality of the program since you've wiped the slate clean by changing technologies before your first batch has finished. It's a bit hard to gauge your student comments since they were trained on different technologies and haven't even been placed yet.

I visited these guys a couple weeks ago and played some 7 Wonders with some of them after class. It was a fun group and it was really neat to see how it's run.<p>I've been working pretty hard in improving my skills on my own via Coursera, Code School, etc... but this is way better. Pair programming and then chatting with all the other pairs working on the same thing looked like it was not only effective, but also motivational. It was a fun group to hang out with, too.<p>The organizer was even kind enough to share a few tidbits of advice for in in terms of learning materials, etc for me to pursue on my own.<p>I'm definitely applying for their next batch.

How useful would this be to a non-software engineer with significant self-taught programming experience? I have programmed (mainly Python &#38; Java, no Ruby/Rails and little web experience) for several years within the context of biomedical engineering and could probably teach myself the material, but this would provide some external discipline and, more importantly, make finding a job much easier (my resume and some other links are on my profile page, if anyone would like to hire me).

This is a fantastic idea. I wish I could go back in time when I was graduating high school and enroll in something like this. Would have saved me tens of thousands, and increased my earnings over lifetime by quite a large amount. Congrats.

I'm starting with Rails and this sounds like a great deal. The only problem is that I'm some 6500 miles away from SF. Anyhow, I like what you're doing and I wish you success.

My current family and financial situation is such that it'd be possible to move to SF for the course, but difficult (not quite impossible!) to stay for a job afterwards. Do any of the companies who have signed on to hire graduates allow remote workers and/or offer jobs at locations other than SF?

Can you guys partner up with a hotel/motel/apartment company/something? I'm on the east coast and would love to attend on one of the available dates but I have no clue about the sfbay area, apartments, etc other than craigslist of course. And craigslist on the East Coast can get weird lol

Am a fan of this fee/tuition structure over Dev Bootcamp's and know a girl in the current class - She built a grocery shopping/calorie counting app that blew me away within 3 weeks of the course. No prior programming knowledge or experience.. was impressive.

What made you change course and focus on Rails development instead of continuing with iOS?

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Who exactly is this for? If you are looking for beginners, why even ask for a github profile?

This looks interesting. I also really like the pricing, it definitely looks like it reduces risk for students. That said, what are the costs like for housing and other living expenses in S.F. for the two month period?

I really want to participate in one of these programs (App Academy, Hungry Academy, Hacker School, etc.) but location is a deal-breaker. Does anyone know of similar events in the Portland, OR area?

Any plans to open similar schools in other major metro areas like Los Angeles/Orange County, Las Vegas, Atlanta, etc.? I'm assuming the biggest obstacle is finding qualified instructors.

The first company to offer intensive programs like this over the Internet will do well for themselves.

How many applications do you receive per cycle and what is the percentage admitted?