{"id":21596,"date":"2018-06-01T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21596"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:22:03","slug":"halide-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/01\/halide-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Halide: One Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/halide-one-year-later-b2210f473043\">Ben Sandofsky<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandofsky\/status\/1001859837070753792\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/halide-one-year-later-b2210f473043\"><p>For indie developers, a healthy way to look at profits is opportunity cost. If you took the hours spent on your own app and applied those toward freelancing, would you make more money?<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re lucky to have no such dilema. Our launch immediately recouped the year of development costs. Our monthly revenue absolutely beats freelancing, and justifies ongoing development. Halide has a bright future ahead.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We launched at $2.99, and later bumped the price to $4.99. Last month, we increased the price to $5.99, which is in-line with other camera apps. Price changes have had no significant impact on profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/halide-one-year-later-b2210f473043\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the app, but (due to iOS limitations) there&rsquo;s no way to access it from the lock screen or Control Center, and it doesn&rsquo;t support HDR.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sandofsky (tweet): For indie developers, a healthy way to look at profits is opportunity cost. If you took the hours spent on your own app and applied those toward freelancing, would you make more money? We&rsquo;re lucky to have no such dilema. Our launch immediately recouped the year of development costs. Our monthly revenue [&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":"2018-06-01T20:49:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"f977ad77-d63f-4e97-8e51-874d4a2cfc7b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-25T19:22:07Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-Xetd9Y_TpeOUYdNSiz8ew","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":[],"tags":[101,152,1569,1604,1748,31,1472,26],"class_list":["post-21596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-camera","tag-control-center","tag-halide","tag-high-dynamic-range-hdr","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596","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=21596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21597,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions\/21597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}