I make no secret about the fact that I hire offshore developers, so I get contacted a few times a week by development company representatives via email, Skype, or Google Chat. A typical conversation goes like this: Development Company: Hi, we are an offshore development company who do mobile app …
Momentum: Downloads Increasing Every Day
Across all of the apps in all of the markets, we are getting between 3,700 and 4,000 new users a day. It's very exciting and the word is spreading. I sincerely thank everyone who has left a review, tweeted about, or liked one of our apps on Facebook. Ear Spy, the biggest app in our arsenal, …
A Brawl with No Rules
About a decade ago, I read Tom Peters' book Re-Imagine. It had a profound effect on me. The book is full of enthusiasm about the coming changes in business and technology. The book is full of great quotes, including this one: "We are in a brawl with no rules." – Paul Allaire, former CEO, Xerox I l …
Anyone can make an app, but without ASO–don’t bother.
Anyone can make an app. Go to a bookstore with a large programming section (if you can find one) and you will see hundreds of books on how to code an app. There are books on iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8-- you name it. I've purchased dozens of these books myself. I get emails daily from …
Software Development: The Corporate and the Hungry
I hire software developers all the time. When I'm not hiring software developers, I'm busy being a software developer. Sometimes, I have to be the software developer just because I can't find someone good enough to take the reigns and make the right things happen. "If the bus ain't moving," they …
Ear Spy Now Available Globally
The latest version of Ear Spy for Android was released yesterday. It now includes support for the following langauges (besides …
Ear Spy — to listen to drug dealers?
Great 5-star review for Ear Spy this week by Terri Bargas on Google Play: I love this app I live a few houses from a drug dealer aND this just handy app to have Man, I hope people don't into trouble because of this app! Good luck, Terri. …
Taking Ear Spy Global
Ear Spy has been a big success and we keep improving it. Right now, we are in the process of translating Ear Spy into 20 more languages (including Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, etc). Previously, we had support for Chinese Mandarin and Hindi only. Several people had requested an Russian …
Blog about Ear Spy
Are you a blogger? If so, we could use your help. If not, you should consider it (It's 2014, after all . . . what exactly are you waiting for?). After more than a half a million downloads, we think it is time more people knew about our useful/creepy (depending on how you use it) little app. We …
I’m not impressed with your office, dude.
In 2009, I travelled to Shanghai and Dalian in China and met with nine software development companies. I was looking for Overpass partners I could work with. I speak the language, so it was a lot easier for me than it would have been for a lot of other people. It's difficult to describe the …
