Longtime lurker, first time OP. Apologies if it's poor form to post your own writing. I was motivated to write by an HN comment to the Fiplab guys a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979091
Congrats on releasing your app.
Sure it's a stupid app, but you learned so much and had fun. When you have an idea for your next stupid app the whole process will seem so much easier.
Thanks! Yes, I’ve already found that to be the case while working on the successor project. Plus, though I didn't mention it in the piece, there are many things peripheral to actual development that were a big time sink but that now are just done and I don’t need to think about (incorporation, associating my individual-type Apple dev program account with the company, contracts etc).
I feel the same way when I hack around with my trivial Rails Applications. It is not the destination that matters, but the journey.