Poll: How long did it take you to build your first iphone app?

6 points by amichail ↗ HN

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Seven days for the first version from "Create New Project" to iTunes Connect. And it was actually quite useful and popular. Apple then promptly sat on it for two weeks, but oh well.

It still more than paid for this year's WWDC :)

You must have done some Mac development before!
~1hr. No previous Mac, XCode, or even much Unix experience. I made Pong. I did it by converting the GLPaint sample one piece at a time.
3 or 4 hours - made a crypto token - but it was 90% playing with IB and look and feel, because the iPhone ships with crypto and base64 stuff out of the box.