Shopster 2013

12 Aug 2014 • inessential.com

Now you need to write five of these to have a good year. (More if it’s a team rather than a solo developer.) And you have to support those apps, and probably do another five next year because the bulk of sales happen at launch.

My city (Seattle) is in the process of raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, which is about $30,000 for a full-time job. Many iOS indies would do better at minimum wage jobs here than on the App Store.

This whole indie iOS developer discussion is casting a real gloom on my future plans and how excited I originally was about Swift.