When I started to study and develop applications on the iPhone I was forced to start with something simple, that is to create a softwarino that allowed me to understand the mechanism behind all'AppStore and test my ability to develop software.
did not take long to find the answer. As a good eater and I love pasta, this must be rigorously al dente. At home I have a thousand clocks scattered here and there, but no one is out of sync with each other. This is for the tooth paste a big problem, just a minute more and you lose the best cooking.
My old system was to run through the rooms of my house masturbation with additions and subtractions to maintain the correct time, a great mental exercise but you do not mind so much freedom and that is often subject errors. This is my first ingenious idea: create an application that can function as a kitchen timer. Sure, there are other solutions, like buying a wristwatch or synchronize the clocks of the house, but this is the most stimulating.
Taking paper and pencil ( engineer from the one with the mine 7decimi mm) I started to throw down the first sketches on how it should be on the look and feel which features to implement, etc. .. So I decided to split a kind of database for brands with different products ordered for cooking time.
Knock down the Pasta was taking shape, though the first was called iPasta, but was released shortly after that of Barilla.
began to write the code, and despite initial uncertainty the project went on well and shipped as they move kept coming to mind to add other features, of which the largest was that of a 1:1 scale back some of dough. Also this feature stems from a need, my mother for a period of time had decided to transfer the dough into sterile plastic boxes and anonymous does not include the inside or the type of pasta cooking time. He was born the "Recognize Pasta r", an adventure that took me a long time.
Despite the ideas flowed fast, you can not say the same changes to be implemented in software to add it. First lesson: to the software maintenance must be done quickly and effectively . At one point I had such a crowd of ideas in my head that I decided to stop and fix (er inspection ) Of the milestones. So dopo15 days between July 25 pending review and the review itself out, "Throw down the Pasta." Second lesson: in the days after sending the application to Apple prepare all the necessary marketing materials .
I was totally unprepared in terms of trade, so I started to spam email to all friends and this proved to be a fairly effective strategy. In fact, there are better ways to advertise your app. The first is definitely a Facebook "share" chained is an advertisement that comes easily to thousands of people, ditto for twitter, but I was not very social, and these instruments are not used them in the past. Other systems are reviews on blogs or in the field.
All this "spam" is used primarily to reach the top of the league's general category or better. Reached a high position in the chart at least within the first 25 (the limit of visibility for consulting top 25 categories) increases your visibility and reach a lot even to those who have not been touched by facebook or twitter.
This app because of my ignorance has had a slow start, but word of mouth among people in the long term is a winner. Today we nearly 7,000 downloads to clone more than one application fee and the last update of Barilla iPasta even added the timer (say: "I wanted us to do?") not bad for an experiment.
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