jbillingsley

What are three general questions you would ask your product users after you've just launched? What do you most want to know about users/potential users at this critical time?

I recently created a simple iPhone app that solves a small problem for a niche group of people of which I am a member. I posted on one of the community's main forums about this app (which I'm charging $0.99 for) and all I received were complaints of a money grab. It's not like this small niche of people would make me a millionaire from this one app.

How has it gotten to the point where you will be vilified for simply trying to get a small return on your work?

Within a small niche do you have to be a prominent leader to avoid this kind of animosity?

Thinking of how the oil and gas industry has stifled alternative energy innovation and implementation, what innovations/changes might we be avoiding as programmers out of self-preservation? Do we keep things overly complicated to justify our own existence? Do we give the cold shoulder to those wanting to learn our trade in a subconscious effort to prevent dilution of our own value?