So here's kind of a funny story:
Earlier this year my friend and was telling me about a meme that was in the form of a gif, and she was saying she'll have to send me the link so that I can see it. Then I told her, "wouldn't it be cool if there was a type of keyboard app where you could send gifs to people from any other app?"
So I told her I was going to ponder this idea and possibly make this app. Me being my technical self, I thought about all the ways I could program something like this, and the more I analyzed it, the more I thought it would be too much hassle, and I sort of lost interest in the idea because I didn't see any money in it. Basically, I didn't do it.
So about two or three months later, I saw on Allen Wong's Facebook page (for those of you who don't know, he's famous for his rags-to-riches story where he made millions off developing apps) and he was just like, "yeah I just working on this app where you can send gifs to people. Thought it would be a cool idea. It's almost done."
I was like, "damn! That's just like the app I thought of!"
I guess the idea had potential after all!
Anyways I don't see this as a missed opportunity at all, I think this is the cosmos way of telling me that sometimes I analyze too much when I should just try something out for the hell of it.
Luckily there's way more cool shit to build in this world
Earlier this year my friend and was telling me about a meme that was in the form of a gif, and she was saying she'll have to send me the link so that I can see it. Then I told her, "wouldn't it be cool if there was a type of keyboard app where you could send gifs to people from any other app?"
So I told her I was going to ponder this idea and possibly make this app. Me being my technical self, I thought about all the ways I could program something like this, and the more I analyzed it, the more I thought it would be too much hassle, and I sort of lost interest in the idea because I didn't see any money in it. Basically, I didn't do it.
So about two or three months later, I saw on Allen Wong's Facebook page (for those of you who don't know, he's famous for his rags-to-riches story where he made millions off developing apps) and he was just like, "yeah I just working on this app where you can send gifs to people. Thought it would be a cool idea. It's almost done."
I was like, "damn! That's just like the app I thought of!"
I guess the idea had potential after all!
Anyways I don't see this as a missed opportunity at all, I think this is the cosmos way of telling me that sometimes I analyze too much when I should just try something out for the hell of it.
Luckily there's way more cool shit to build in this world
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