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Recent content by garyk1968

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    SHOULD I LEARN TO PROGRAM??

    Agreed. The problem most programmers face is they think that because they *can* build it then they should build it. You must must determine a need for what it is you are building and have a plan to get it out to market. Sure its worth understanding how long things take but your time is better...
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    My friend built an ad-supported cash giveaway site with free entry. 18% of winnings go to charity!

    EXECUTION 
    I'm not a lawyer but looked into doing a prize draw system some years back and got some advice. In the UK I think this would be legal as you aren't charging for entry. If you were charging for entry it would be deemed a lottery and the gambling laws were actually amended to protect the...
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    So I've got a SaaS idea, What Now?

    IDEA SAAS / APPS 
    Research the competition, find out what is already out there. Being blunt here people get wrapped up in their own ideas too much. As a dev I often get people say to me I've got an idea for an app or solution and theres nothing like it. 10 minutes of googling and I normally find similar...
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    Creating a simple web app with excel capabilities

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    As others have said you are better off hiring someone than learning. If you are new to coding you will get frustrated pretty fast and doing web apps is not trivial. Hire on upwork and really to mimic excel functionality you need someone with excellent experience with one of the more popular...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Yep spot, its always been cheaper to buy than build. And the example of the companies where the founders were coders? For every one of those there are hundreds of founder/developer companies that didn't make it. Just like for every successful app on the appstore there are tens of thousands...
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    Free Mentorship From Expert Marketer

    Sounds interesting. Can you tell us what niche it is in? I could be interested. Got alot experience of adwords and facebook ppc, I'm an app developer with apps on the app store and a udemy instructor with close to 5000 students across 6 courses. Would like to get some more info, via PM if...
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    Greetings from the UK!

    Yes a good insight Laubster thank you. I think to be fair to the program a lot of failure will come down to non action. Cheers Gary
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    1M dollar startup for 32K?

    I keep telling people these days you don't have a 'technical' issue, you have a marketing or network one. Getting stuff built these days is easy and cheap. I'm no web designer but I can buy a template for $10-$40 dollars. I am an app developer but if you aren't you can buy apps pre-done for...
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    What do you hate about eBay and Amazon?

    If you sell on Amazon the the postage you are allocated isn't enough to cover the actual costs. eBay fees perhaps a little high. The key is both of these give you *massive* exposure so whilst people may be a little p***ed I think hate is too strong a term. Gary
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    Tech partnership, anyone know of app companies to help with app idea.

    IDEA 
    Make sure your spec. is detailed enough when outsourcing. You could also put something buried deep in the spec that says something like 'Mention the word euraka when preparing your proposal'. And if they don't then you know they have only skimmed the spec. not read it properly! You don't *have*...
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    UK Meetups

    MEETUPS 
    Southwest is where its at then! I'm in east anglia, well between MK and Cambridge.
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    Is anyone making iOS games right now?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Ive done 2 games and 4 utility type apps, started 3 years ago and then it was a case of build it, deploy it and generate some revenue. not now though. As others have said as far as a gold rush the train has left the station and people now make money selling the spades or how-to's rather than...
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    IOS Development - Push Notifications

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Ray Wenderlich has a stack of good iOS tutorials on his site, there is one on push notifications here http://www.raywenderlich.com/32960/apple-push-notification-services-in-ios-6-tutorial-part-1 you'll need your own server to do it. Otherwise 3rd party you are looking at parse.com or...
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    UK Meetups

    MEETUPS 
    I wouldnt really consider myself a fastlaner either Roland. I think you are referring to typical networking events (which I abhor!) and have done them all in the past. I'm talking about mastermind groups, no-one is there to sell anything just share tips, tricks, hacks, experiences. There's a...
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    UK Meetups

    MEETUPS 
    Any fastlaners in the UK and do you attend any events? Gary
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