As a solo technical founder building everything by himself (2-3 months now) from the backend (rest api), the mobile apps (both Android and iOS), this is beautiful to read! I hope to have a similar blog post once I launch! Meanwhile, nice work!
Thanks, appreciate the response and good luck with your project. Would love to read your experience too.
I've developed the iPhone application, the entire website you're reading (and back-end REST JSON API), sorted out business registration, large amounts of research on how to do each step (how do I do marketing? How do I test iPhone apps? What laws do I need to comply with?), server setup and management, I helped write some of the Android game as well, plus other things I'm sure I am forgetting.
My partner worked entirely on the Android development, and of course we collaborated with each other on fleshing out the game idea and helped out in other areas too.
I spoke with a designer friend of mine and asked whether she would be interested in working with us - I wanted to make sure she was paid, as we've all worked on projects before :) and so she was contracted to come up with those designs. We really liked how she also helped figure out the "tone" of the interface.
This is probably project #4 I've worked on in 2011, 2 I cut after getting half done (too much work), 1 I launched and made about $100 then stopped it because I didn't market it enough, this is #4.
I'm learning every iteration, I'm looking forward to #5 :)
