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avaloreon Ask HN: What are you working on for Launch-an-App Month?

Limits App ( http://limitsapp.com ) - An iOS app to track what drinks you have and discover when you're over/under the current drink driving limit. Just a fun app so we can exercise some freedom on all those little big details that clients seem uninterested in.

avaloreon Ask HN: Best examples of software welcome screens?

Pttrns has some examples of welcome screens / walkthroughs for iOS apps... http://pttrns.com/walkthroughs

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A new startup offering a self service, better (we think) solution: https://www.lettingcheck.com

avaloreon Ask HN: How do you manage the sales "funnel"?

Fat Free CRM (http://www.fatfreecrm.com/) is a pretty nice self-hosted, RoR, option. There's an iOS app for it called Senbei, off the top of my head, although it is a little limited.

avaloreon Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

A crowd sourced checklist/todo app.

Just a small extension of a little iPhone app I made for myself. Realized that most of my 'todo lists' are more like checklists... for launching a new site, compiling a distribution build of an iPhone app, etc. So I have a little app for myself that let's me quickly re-use these checklists.

So now I'm building in a web based back end to allow everyone to share their checklists for other people to use.

It would be a good place to store, and use, the 100's of different checklists i've seen on blogs, hackernews, etc.

avaloreon Ask HN: How long does it take Apple to pay you after you sell apps?

If you've earnt over $150 in a region (uk, us, Europe, Canada, Australia, japan, rest of world... Off the top of my head). Then you will usually have the money in your account just before the end of the following month. Although you'll start to receive financial reports mid way through the month.

E.g Jan) 100$ - uk Feb) 100$ - uk (your now over 150$ for the region) Mar) financial report around the 14th onwards then money in the bank by the end of the month

avaloreon Ask HN: Number of iPhone apps you published & income you get from them

Published two apps. One is quite broad in its potential user base. I spent a reasonable amount of time using Twitter, forums, talking to bloggers, answering emails etc.

I also vary the price a lot and VERY REGULARLY, although only since it's slipped from the charts. Varying from £.59 to £2.99. You might be surprised at the effect this has... The higher price tends not to affect the number of sales too much so I try to keep this as high as possible.

The second app is a little more niche. The only advertising (after an initial flurry of tweets) has been via links on my website (just for promoting my freelance work) and the website of the content owner.

So... A) 2 B) both paid C) see above D) £2500 - £4000 per month

avaloreon Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Living/Working in a technology backwater

Be as blunt as you like, I don't mind.

A few reasons I guess. 1) Cost. Because it's such a backwater it's incredibly cheap. I can still get a lot done here and communicate with others online... but I guess that's only good for so long. Face to face is so much better.

2) I guess, if I'm honest, fear of not being good enough. I make good money here but worry that I wouldn't if I went somewhere else where there are much more talented developers. Maybe it's justified, maybe it's not. I guess I won't know unless I try.

Thanks