Offer HN: Let me build your iOS app for $200

20 points by ceeK ↗ HN
You can catch me at c.k.howell (at) warwick.ac.uk

Why? I want to add to my iOS portfolio whilst getting a chance to practice and experience building something for somebody else

Why $200? Given that this will be my first time building for somebody else, I want to make it costly enough that I work on interesting ideas but also affordable enough so that the price will accommodate for any beginner freelancer kinks

About me: I have a game on the App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firework-flare/id513766705?mt=8), a game ready for release for iOS 7 in October (http://www.chrishowell.me/unibus or http://howell.herokuapp.com/unibus), and have interned at an app development agency (http://www.theappbusiness.com).

How it works:

1. Email me to talk more about your app. Once I'm ready to commit to working on it, we can have a Skype call where we can scope out the requirements.

2. Design: If you have a design ready, I'll use that. Otherwise I'll use the native iOS 7 components. If you don't have a design, some simple diagram of the application flow and views will be necessary. I'll need from you the App Store icon and loading screens.

3. Back-end: If you have one, I'll use that. If you need one, you'll have to build it some other way.

4. Payment: $100 upfront, $100 on completion

5. You will own all the code, but I reserve the right to talk about and put images of the application up on my portfolio website.

6. Given that this app should end up in my portfolio, it's in my best interests to make sure you're happy with your application. To achieve this, I will expect you to be able to respond promptly to emails throughout the development.

Thanks to natasham25 for the inspiration.

If you have any questions feel free to email me or reply to this post.

9 comments

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excellent marketing strategy.
I started this "trend" http://toutouastro.tumblr.com/post/56050201093/stolen-idea and I am happy because it was a good idea :D
as an idea : you can create like odesk but for beginner freelancers with prices that are less than 200$ or 100$.Freelancer will use it to start their career and clients will use it to get cheap fees.If you ever did it : you can give 5% or 10% equity as a donation :p
Just curious, why don't you create an open source app for your portfolio instead? Sometimes (certain kinds of) clients like to see code you've written.
It's possible to see code for the unibus app at www.github.com/ceeK/unibus, via www.chrishowell.me, for any clients that may want to view some code.

If you mean full on open source software that I can contribute to, I haven't found a project that excites me enough yet.

It's quite quiet in here.

Did anything happen?

$200 seems a nice price...

Yep, got 10-20 offers (haven't counted). Working on my first project now and have another client hopefully queued up for afterwards.

I'm thinking of doing a blog post on the whole thing after this project =)