My Cocoaheads presentation delevired on November 15th, 2011 at the CocoaHeads meetup in The Hague.

1. 4 apps in 4 weeks
Chris Eidhof

2. However...

3. 4 apps in 4 weeks

4. 4 apps in 4 weeks

5. 4 apps in 4 weeks

6. 4 apps in 4 weeks
1 app in 4 weeks

7. Off to Spain

8. Three ideas
1. iPad: explain a concept
2. iPad: build interactive iPhone prototypes
3. iPhone: take notes about people you meet

9. Check in to People
• Existing apps:
• FellowUp
• Hashable
• With
• ...

10. MVP
• Checkin
• Review
• Search
• Business model: charge $$$

11. Sketches and ideas

12. Week 1: First build

13. Tabs

14. Selecting people

15. Design

16. Design

17. Design

18. Design
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19. Branding
• Checkins are confusing, let’s call them
Meetups

20. Names
• Meetups
• James

21. Names
• Meetups
• James

22. Names
• Meetups
• James
As always, let me know what you think: send
an email or mention/message me on Twitter.

24. Passcode lock

25. Passcode lock
efaults
UserD
use NS
Don’t

26. Beta comments
• Swipe to delete
• Text Color for highlighted UITableView
cells
• Go to Address Book
• Screen rotation support

27. Search
• sqlite has builtin full text search

28. Search
Too mu ch work
• sqlite has builtin full text search

29. More Screenshots

30. More Screenshots

31. More Screenshots

32. More Screenshots

33. Blogging is awesome
• Lots of feedback
• Build an audience
• Build something people want

34. Beta results
• Half of the people used it for more than 3
seconds.
• 1 person used it regularly

35. More designs

36. More designs
Clickable

37. Website Design

38. Website Design

39. Website Design

40. Website Design

41. Website Design

42. Website Design

43. Website
• Screenshots
• Use iPhone, show on background
• Good one-sentence explanation
• Start with the important things
http://met.io

44. Press Release
• Good experiences with TrackMe
• Slightly worse with Met

46. Closing Remarks
• Building a perfect app is hard
• Designing an app is hard
• Writing a press release is hard
• Selling an app is hard
• Building something people want is hard

47. Closing Remarks
• People are extremely helpful
• Doing this publicly has a lot of benefits
• It’s a lot of fun

48. Contact details
http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com
chris@eidhof.nl
@chriseidhof