I Am an Indie iOS Developer – Part 2

Re:I Am an Indie iOS Developer – Part 2 by dbtc on Sunday September 07, 2014 @01:56AM (#8280446)

I live in the us. My current monthly expenses are about $1300. (Young, no kids, rent, own a car). I have ~18 mo worth of savings and and 1 very simple app on the App Store so far. I'm thinking I could quit my current job (java dev, strongly dislike it) now and spend at least a year trying to become indie. Do you think this is a reasonable thing to do?

I figure at the end of that year I will at least hopefully have enough of a portfolio to get hired as an ios dev somewhere and continue working on my dream with some more stable income.

I know it's probably smarter to keep working on apps on the side but I feel like I could progress south quicker not having a full time job. Also I dread mornings right now. Just curious about others' probably more seasoned opinions.

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Re:I Am an Indie iOS Developer – Part 2 by cageface on Sunday September 07, 2014 @03:04AM (#8280501)

My advice to you would be to forget about it. Even if your apps do well you can easily make more money consulting. It's good to have a few apps in the store as a portfolio but if your goal is to become financially independent as a developer you're better off writing web apps or perhaps native desktop apps. Mobile is bad for indies now and steadily get worse.

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Re:I Am an Indie iOS Developer – Part 2 by ghiculescu on Sunday September 07, 2014 @05:32AM (#8280660)

If you have 18 months of savings put aside, are young, and hate your job, I think you'd be silly to not take 9 months off and try to do something fun.

You'll be just as employable - probably more so - when you're done, even if your projects don't take off at all.

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Re:I Am an Indie iOS Developer – Part 2 by gabrielhauber on Sunday September 07, 2014 @02:52AM (#8280490)

I think before you can answer that question, you need an answer to this question: What's my plan?

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