Love potions make anyone instantly fall in love with you desperately. Time makes you able to go back in time to fix past events, but it can’t be used in a loophole way for extreme financial gain. (Eg memorizing lottery numbers, stock picks, winning team for gambling, etc)
In the business / entrepreneurial world, there is a popular saying
"10% of a watermelon is better than 100% of a grape"
This is usually said to people who are scared of giving up equity in their business.
"if someone can 10x your profits, it's worth it to lose some equity" is the message.
While this saying is good in spirit, it doesn't take into account 2 very important things.
When you lose majority share, you can literally be kicked out of your own company. At that point your equity amount is mostly irrelevant. Especially if you have some sort of passion.
In order to have a meaningful amount of profit, you have to have a decent amount of equty.
Let's say (for example), you have a 100M dollar exit, which is very good. The top percentile of businesses.
20% means your take home is 20M (pre tax)
0.5% means your take home is 500K (pre tax).
Which is decent income, but not nearly as appealing. And keep in mind that this is for a huge amount of a 100M dollar exit.
I could go on and on with more bullet points, but let me know your thoughts
In the business / entrepreneurial world, there is a popular saying
"10% of a watermelon is better than 100% of a grape"
This is usually said to people who are scared of giving up equity in their business.
"if someone can 10x your profits, it's worth it to lose some equity" is the message.
While this saying is good in spirit, it doesn't take into account 2 very important things.
Let's say (for example), you have a 100M dollar exit, which is very good. The top percentile of businesses.
20% means your take home is 20M (pre tax)
0.5% means your take home is 500K (pre tax).
Which is decent income, but not nearly as appealing. And keep in mind that this is for a huge amount of a 100M dollar exit.
I could go on and on with more bullet points, but let me know your thoughts
Edit: For the uneducated who aren't in the business world and are saying that this phrase is "made up" or a straw man. Here are some links for you. Including some shark tank talks, business insiders, documents, etc
No. Ever watched shark tank of been in the business world?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YbQSGOYyIlk
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_O0TPmFckKM
The analogy is used all the time
This metaphor was popularized by Mark Cuban on Shark Tank
I only cost five bucks. give me the app idea and i'll write the code for you. I will also write the backend code. You will have a fully functional app. Obviously to publish app you will need to have a developer license from apple (99), and potentially server costs. But the code is free. Anyways, my tech stack is using swift. This post requires at least 400 characters...... I don't know how to add more
I purchased a course on udemy for swift. spent good money on it. they started with UiKIt and storyboards....
At first I didn't mind, but then I started actually trying to make my own app without help
a social media app.
that's when I realized I can't do shit.
Even if I had AI generate a design programmatically, I don't even know how to swap it onto the screen.
At this point I need to start over from scratch
But I learn by doing. I want to make apps. make projects. have fun
Not learn a bunch of useless theory and realise that i don't know anything again.
Any tips?
or should I just go back to react native or flutter. that was way easier
I'm trying to learn app development. I didn't know it was this complicated to send data from one screen to another smh
Or perhaps the course i'm using is just over complicating things with the MVC design pattern
Drop your project (link + 1 sentence) and others reply with:
If you post take some time to review others
I'm tired of learning and I want to build a real project. Give me some stuff to make. Keep it simple
I will code it for you, and send you the link to download. If it's too complex, I will give you an MVP, and point you in the right direction
Though disclaimer: even though I'm giving you the code for free, hosting it in production might not be free. In order to run apps, you might need to purchase things (such as a server, a developer account, etc. But if you are in this sub I assume you already know that.
Anyways let it rip! I'll get to everyone who responds in the first 48 hours.
to gain some experience (and hopefully get into freelancing), I'm trying to develop some ios apps. But the problem is nowhere I promote is allowing me to get sales, or genuine inquiries. Where can I go to hopefully promote a free ios app development service?
I'm learning storyboards (which is basically the same thing as UIKit, just visual)
and one thing that really confuses me are constraints. It's how they are making the app look good in portrait and landscape. I need a deep dive explanation on what constraints are, how they work, etc
i'm for hire. iOS app developer for hire.
I build clean, fast apps using Swift, UIKit, and SwiftUI.
Need something simple or complex — I can handle both.
What I can build:
I focus on:
put your app idea in the comments and I will build it for you. Be sure to be as specific as possible. Depending on the idea, I might go full project or MVP.
My rate depends on the project. About 20 - 100 USD per app, unless it is something that is super complicated. Send me a message and I can give you a quote
(For the moderators that are reading this post, I'm a fast worker. So these rates do fit the 15/hr rule. Please don't take the post down. Thanks)
Drop your project (link + 1 sentence) and others reply with:
If you post take some time to review others
Python was fun at first, but when you start getting serious and building real world projects, you quickly start to learn the limitations.
The main selling point of python is that it's easy to learn. Very rarely is it the best choice for the job
Let's say, for example, you wanted to code server sided for your startup. Sure, you can use python. But in the real world, servers cost money. You would significantly reduce cost by using a language like golang. Even if you don't want to use go, there's many other options that don't use use as much resources. If you already know python, cool. But if you are trying to learn backend development for your own applications.... good luck.
Same with mobile development. Native is #1. Swift/Kotlin. Even if you wanted cross platform, which isn't as good but understandable, React Native and flutter comes in. Python will not be a good idea at all. It's too slow and isn't supported.
the list can go on
The only way I would agree is for machine learning/AI. That, and if your job uses python. But it's certainly useless from a pragmatic standpoint
I'm learning swift. Currently on storyboards. While it's fun, I'm noticing that when I change my oreintation the UI breaks. There's ways around this, such as constraints, alignment, etc. But it feels way too complicated to me. Should I keep trying to learn how to do it. Or should I concede and just force all my apps to stay in portrait and not landscape.