A young person's guide to building something

http://blog.zmitri.com/startups/2012/12/14/young-persons-guide-to-building-something.html

by zmitri • 13 years ago

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MJR• 13 years ago

This blog post is almost 6 months old. The author quit his job. The app is free and it looks like it's been . So what's the result? There's some basic advice here about starting and building something. We've all read that sort of simple "just build something" advice. Is their story unique or worth reading about? Any revenue or even a business model?

zmitri• 13 years ago

Author here. We are still going.

The point of this article was to communicate to younger people that it is possible to go off and build something on your own. Many don't think about it or know it's possible.

If you're interested, about a week after this post, the app hit top 100 free apps in the store -- 88 I think was the peak -- and national news sources started using it to scoop stories from.

Either way, I've learned a lot, things I would never had learned had I not gone out on my own. I've also had a lot of interesting experiences -- some good, some bad.

Feel free to email me if you'd like to hear more.

daniluk• 13 years ago

But what happens if there is a person with a great idea, no programming skills and not enough money to invest in developing the product? How should a young person approach this?

SandersAK• 13 years ago

you've got to change one of those things. there are plenty of reasonable obstacles to not starting something - it's your job to decide whether or not it is worth finding ways to overcome them.

A young person's guide to building something

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