I’m Xiong Da, an indie developer. I’ve been experimenting with indie development for the last year, and I’d like to talk about the journey of indie development with you. If you’re interested in developing an app, take a look at my indie story.
- I have made live broadcast, camera and social apps.
- Personal independent app imI and Today’s Plan
- In 2020, I want to try my hand at indie development.
First app development cycle
When I was working on my first app, Project Today, I worked Monday through Saturday, week after week, with some development time at night.
The general situation is as follows:
- 1 hour a day writing app code * 60 = 60 hours
- Every Sunday has 4 hours * 8 = 32 hours
- Qingming Festival three days (according to the 8 hours/day tian calculation) : 3*8 = 24 hours
Total of about 120 hours: completed design to online.
I also bought the ECS of Aliyun and established the background through Vapor. The maintenance cost was a little high, so I gave up decisively.
When I happily shared it with my friends, they told me he was ugly, leading to a series of labels: “ugly”, “straight aesthetic”, “problematic collocation”, “too easy”… all in all, no good adjectives.
(PS:T M D, I feel a little bit of a hole myself)
Later, there were also some downloads, but due to work stress, did not continue to update iteration.
departure
At present, the app watermark camera ranks Top20 on the photography list. It is my great honor that I have been living for one million days from zero, and I know the exponential growth of good products. My heart really wants to go out and see more wonderful and interesting people, so the world is so big that I want to go out and see more people, which is really the main reason for me to leave my job.
The biggest thing I gained from my last job was experience, one that has served me well for many years.
After leaving, there is no lack of opportunities for internal promotion, but I have not decided how to take the next road, I am thinking, should I go to a large factory for further study, or start a freelance career? I have always been a proud person, when I graduated my salary is XX K, can not compromise for five meters, simply do a free job. So I told people about my idea, and finally got a job at a company right next to my house, a five-minute commute.
Since July, I’ve spent almost two hours every night preparing to start my freelance career as a full-time indie developer as long as my side business makes over $10,000.
The new app online
2020.08 A friend, a flying pig, joins the development camp.
2020.10 Minimax added to the development faction.
(Names withheld for special reasons)
In January 2021, a new free App “IMI – Achieve the Best of yourself” was launched. This App, at least in the UI, has won praise from programmers. We have not officially promoted it, but just posted a dynamic test in the small circle.
Our small team also opened a new public account: Indie Developer Base, if you are interested, please follow.
Unfortunately, due to the busy nature of the new company, after several overnight overtime work, I seriously slowed down the development progress of the small team, which should have been online by the end of 2020.
“Imi”
This is a style lovely simple planning, planning software, pay tribute to yourself, pay tribute to youth.
Imi meaning: I am me, we must be imperfect, maybe not successful, maybe not beautiful, but this is me, different.
Here’s a picture:
This idea is what I think. To put it simply, it is a planning software
- Life node
- motto
- achievement
- notes
- Of the person you like
- The countdown
- Fingerprint unlock
- Cloud synchronization.
Design this software hope can let everybody feel useful, do not know the original intention of the software is not a false proposition. Time will tell.
Indie developers should all know the time Planning Bureau, which has been topping the charts for a long time. This time imI is aimed at it, and it will be one of our competitive products. I think we have a bit of hope for such tool software with such a sentimental app.
We hope you can download: IMI – Achievement to support us
Benefits for indie developers
I think it’s a bonus. Our little team, we put together a library of accelerators for the app, and the Two apps, Project Of the Day and IMI-Achievement, were developed based on this library. Other apps will be developed based on this library, which means we will continue to improve and maintain this library. There are many useful functions in it. Welcome to star🌟.
Accelerate the library SpeedySwift warehouse: https://github.com/Tliens/SpeedySwift
Third party libraries used in IMI:
# Pods for App1125 POD 'HWPanModal', '~> 0.8.1' POD 'RealmSwift', '~> 10.5.0' pod 'ZLPhotoBrowser', '~ > 4.1.2' pod SwiftDate ', '~> 6.3.1' POD 'IceCream',:path =>' dev-Pods /IceCream' # data Synchronization icloud # pod 'FSPagerView' # pod 'SwiftyStoreKit' # Pod 'Schedule', '~> 2.1.0' pod 'Hero', '~> 1.5.0' pod 'BiometricAuthentication' # SDK pod 'UMCAnalytics', '~> 6.1.0'Copy the codeBack in the 2020
Get skills:
- It’s my honor to lead componentized development
- Functional responsive programming
- Go the service side
Outlook 2021,
I hope you are healthy and happy
We will continue to maintain, maintain today’s plan, IMI. There will also be new apps.
The last
Tianxingjian gentleman to unremitting self-improvement, terrain kun gentleman to virtue.
Most of my efforts were fruitless, but I loved babies born and created.