Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have not commercially distributed anything I have written. I have however written apps for the work I do for my company. They recently decided to adopt my Forms Generator in their workflow, which makes me somewhat of a needed commodity for them. I'm not sure how to put a price on that. I

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-23 Thread Todd Fabacher
So the crux comes down to this. IMO your ability to make money with LC has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with your business acumen, which Richard and Todd have already pointed out will take a lot of skill, effort and time. In this regard Gladwell is probably correct, it wont

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-23 Thread Colin Holgate
Small Google tip: although -something still works, +something doesn’t. Now you put the word or phrase in quotes. On Aug 23, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Todd Fabacher tfabac...@gmail.com wrote: Great point Kay. So I searched google with LiveCode + startups, + money, +profit, +success, +App

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-23 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Aug 22, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Richard wrote: To be good at anything is a function of time spent practicing. Malcolm Gladwell estimates that the time needed to truly master just about anything is roughly 10,000 hours. So at 5,000 hours one can expect to at least be very

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-23 Thread Mark Talluto
On Aug 23, 2015, at 6:46 AM, Todd Fabacher tfabac...@gmail.com mailto:tfabac...@gmail.com wrote: Great point Kay. So I searched google with LiveCode + startups, + money, +profit, +success, +App business, +business, + Venture Capital ...Mostly I got things like this:

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-22 Thread Kay C Lan
Richard wrote: To be good at anything is a function of time spent practicing. Malcolm Gladwell estimates that the time needed to truly master just about anything is roughly 10,000 hours. So at 5,000 hours one can expect to at least be very good, and at 1,000 hours far better off than not

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-20 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
Wow, and here I was thinking you just do lorem ipsum: http://digitalpomegranate.com/about/ ;-) On 20 August 2015 at 16:40, Todd Fabacher tfabac...@gmail.com wrote: As many of us I have paid for the licenses, put money out for free development expecting some wanted features, continued for

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-20 Thread Todd Fabacher
As many of us I have paid for the licenses, put money out for free development expecting some wanted features, continued for Indie advancement payments (hope to live beyond the licenses expire), I have to ask my colleague developers, are you making any money with the apps you develop

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-20 Thread Mark Talluto
On Aug 19, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Pyyhtiä Christer chris...@mindcrea.com wrote: Another question is where is the beef for the different apps. Games, plays - but does anything serious drive apps in iOS world. What about Android, is there a different worlds of users? Finally, is everything

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-20 Thread Randy Hengst
I am not a programmer in the vein of Todd, Richard, Simon or many others on this list… I’m a “scripter.” I like LiveCode because I can easily create the simple things I do and develop them quickly. My target audience is elementary schools and children (so, ages 5-12). I’m a prof in a small

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-20 Thread Richmond
On 20/08/15 14:10, Todd Fabacher wrote: As many of us I have paid for the licenses, put money out for free development expecting some wanted features, continued for Indie advancement payments (hope to live beyond the licenses expire), I have to ask my colleague developers, are you

What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-19 Thread Pyyhtiä Christer
Although playing around with LiveCode for a number of years and enjoying - often 'trial and error' - haven't really got anywhere close to see the fruits for the effort making an application. As many of us I have paid for the licenses, put money out for free development expecting some wanted

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pyyhtiä Christer wrote: As many of us I have paid for the licenses, put money out for free development expecting some wanted features, continued for Indie advancement payments (hope to live beyond the licenses expire), I have to ask my colleague developers, are you making any money with the

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-19 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
I am pretty sure there are many who made and still make money with Livecode apps. I for example have an app, unfortunately a niche product, which i am selling through Kagi for some time which gives me some revenue. I am selling round about 10 to 20 copies a month. I´ve created 6 iOS and

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-19 Thread Simon
, but the tech talk guy who codes in LiveCode. Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/What-is-this-is-anyone-making-money-tp4695368p4695382.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com