{"id":14214,"date":"2016-04-16T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2016-04-16T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T20:20:00","slug":"arments-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/16\/arments-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Arment&rsquo;s Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raywenderlich.com\/129219\/making-overcast-instapaper-tumblr-top-dev-interview-marco-arment\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.raywenderlich.com\/129219\/making-overcast-instapaper-tumblr-top-dev-interview-marco-arment\"><p>It&rsquo;s easy to look at successful, painstakingly crafted, impeccably designed apps from well-known developers like Panic or Omni and attribute their success to their craftsmanship, design, and delightful details. Far too many developers believe that if they polish an app to a similar level, they&rsquo;ll be successful, too. And then they pour months or years of effort into an app that, more often than not, never takes off and can&rsquo;t sustain that level of effort.<\/p>\n<p>These high-profile success stories didn&rsquo;t become successful because they invested tons of time or had world-class designs &mdash; they became successful because they solved common needs, that people were willing to pay good money for, in areas with relatively little competition. [&#8230;] The craftsmanship and design were indulgent luxuries that their successful market fits enabled them to do, not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Recognize that indie development is flooded with competition. This isn&rsquo;t to discourage anyone from entering it, but should be considered when deciding what to do (and not do): keep your costs as low as possible, and get ideas to market quickly before assuming they&rsquo;ll be successful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment: It&rsquo;s easy to look at successful, painstakingly crafted, impeccably designed apps from well-known developers like Panic or Omni and attribute their success to their craftsmanship, design, and delightful details. Far too many developers believe that if they polish an app to a similar level, they&rsquo;ll be successful, too. And then they pour months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,286,31,30],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-interview","tag-ios","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14215,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}