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busy weekends up ahead
Busy weekends up ahead!
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Arcade Fire / Just a Reflektor
Arcade Fire / Just a ReflektorWow!
HTML5 + WebGL have come a long way! And the people at Google and Vincent Morisset have created an extraordinary work of art with it.
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Got busy with Boring... Time to get rich ;)
My last blog post was almost 4 months ago. And I believe I said I’ll have the App out “next thursday” back then. Yeah… time flies :( When I accepted the offer at Shutterfly, my thoughts were that compared to a hectic job at a Startup, a job at a big public company (i.e, CORPORATE) would be pretty chill and allow me enough time to focus on other finer things in life, and to work on other personal projects.
But the only difference between Corporate Work, and Startup Work is the Quality of work – Not the Quantity. You get to work the same amount – if not more – but on relatively uninteresting things. Not that the actual work itself is uninteresting (BTW, uninteresting sounding work is sometimes the most crucial), but the overload with all the emails, and meetings, and emails about meetings (about emails) that go along with any Big Co gig. The bureaucratic friction and managerial politics could at times even make you wish that you were actually getting sh*t done in Congress instead. But, I digress! The point is that my biggest fear about starting on the new job came true – That I wouldn’t find the time to finish up my work on my App, and I would stop working on it. And it’s only gonna get worse next year, when my commute gets longer due to a building move from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara.
Well tonight, all that changes. I finally worked on the final bits of ZDO this past weekend, and hooked up the In-App purchase flow, which was the last remaining task, and hit “Distribute…” on Xcode just about an hour ago. Now, it’s time for me to cross my fingers and wait for Apple to approve it.
If only I had spent these 3 - 4 days worth of work back in June, and submitted the App back then… I could’ve potentially blown people’s minds with a slick never-before-seen user interface. But now, it’s just gonna be an app that looks similar to IDEO’s Spark that got released last week :/ (which, BTW, is a beautiful well-designed app)
TL;DR: ZDO is launching soon! Go download it! Purchase In-App unlocks! Make me rich!
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Required Viewing
Required Viewing: Elon Musk at D11
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It's past 3 AM. And, It Works!
It took me over a week to figure it out. But, finally… it works without crashing on me! (At least, not for the wrong reasons)
Now, all that I have left is to hook up the in-app unlock flow, and it should be good to go. All you folks that signed up for testflight, expect a build by Thursday ;)
In other news…
I watched Elon Musk’s D11 interview last week, and I couldn’t agree more with Kara Swisher’s statement about Silicon Valley.
“There’s a lot of big minds chasing small ideas.”
Yep! Sorry for sounding like a bit of a douche, but I think my projects and I stand as perfect examples for that quote. Those who know me well could probably tell that I’m already bored with this app, even though it’s probably the coolest video app ever ;) Okay… “Action Camera” beats it in coolness. But, at the end of the day (or early 3am in the morning), it’s not helping any bit in taking humanity to a better state of existence.
I should probably stop being Debbie downer, and get some sleep (-_-)
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