Kicking off development on my new iPhone application
Over the last couple of months, I have been working on a set of ideas for a new iPhone application and have actively begun development today. As I begin narrowing down my thoughts on features, I will post more about the actual application.
My current goals:
- Focus on doing a few things very well,
- Link to existing resources where it clearly enhances the value of the application,
- Deliver a working application to a small set of people by February 2009,
- Have a marketable application by April 2009,
- See continued growth in customers each month of 2009.
I have spent a considerable amount of time the last two months reading books, articles, blogs, reviews, etc. to get a better understanding of what it takes to build a business around an iPhone application. I have not done enough to be comfortable (who has), but I have done enough to begin.
Today’s accomplishments:
- I successfully upgraded to the latest versions of all the tools,
- I downloaded what appears to be useful sample source code,
- I verified that my development environment works as expected,
- I applied for Apple’s developer program (thought I had done that months ago),
- I restarted my blogging with this post.
Next tasks:
- Figure out how how to best use GIT with xcode projects
- Setup a GIT server on a separate machine,
- Acquire one new skill with iPhone SDK
- Post about my progress.
Waiting on:
- An e-mail from Apple about the developer program