<div dir="ltr"><div>Joe,<br><br>I wanted to apologize if I came off as critical towards your app or methods. I actually haven't seen your app, your spec or even know what it is your trying to accomplish. My intention was only to provide a view point from someone with experience who has done some contracting (as I assume that the contractors on the sites you're using don't know much more than I do at a glance).<br>
<br></div>I really do hope you find someone to help you build this on your budget and don't want you to dissuade from your goals, I just thought an "other side of the fence point-of-view might help.<br><br>Best of luck, <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:16 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank">joe@actionline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Just to clarify ...<br>
<br>
David Schwartz and Paul Mooring last wrote, in part:<br>
<br>
>> David wrote: I’ve talked with Joe about his app. To his credit,<br>
>> he’s focused mainly on the app. But what he’s missed is that,<br>
<div class="">>> IMHO, he’s over-spec'ed it to the point where you'd need so much<br>
</div>>> custom code to implement what appears to be a simple tool that<br>
<div class="">>> he’ll never be happy with the end result.<br>
<br>
</div>> Paul wrote: As far as Joe's project being "over-spec'ed" in any<br>
> case the spec is what it is. When I referred to the "just one<br>
> more thing" problem before, I meant the same thing I think you<br>
> mean when you say it's overspec'ed. there's nothing wrong with<br>
<div class="">> wanting things a particular way and the best apps/projects<br>
> really do sweat the details. The root of the problem is that<br>
> non-devs *greatly* underestimate the time and effort involved<br>
> in those details.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Just to clarify my objective ...<br>
<br>
There is nothing in my exactingly detailed "app" specs that does not<br>
already exist in hundreds of FREE apps that currently appear in the<br>
Google Playstore.<br>
<br>
How likely is it that someone paid $100,000 or $10,000 or even just<br>
$2,000 to get one of those hundreds of FREE apps built in order to just<br>
give them away FREE?<br>
<br>
Therefore, it is difficult for me to understand why, when there is such a<br>
proliferation of apps currently doing the simple things that I am seeking<br>
to do, that it could be so difficult, so time-demanding, and so costly to<br>
replicate those simple FREE apps that already exist in such abundance?<br>
<br>
Friends ... I'm not trying to invent a new wheel, here.<br>
<br>
I'm just trying to get an app built that can read one single book, search<br>
for chapters to read, scroll-within chapters, flip-pages from chapter to<br>
chapter, and search for keywords within that one book ... all of which my<br>
current html-only websites are now doing.<br>
<br>
Surely it cannot be so difficult to accomplish the same thing with an<br>
Android app?<br>
<br>
BTW: It cost me only $200 bucks to get the current first-edition of this<br>
app built (by a novice) and launched with an opening screen that fills<br>
the screen perfectly in both portrait and rotated to landscape modes.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.CompareBibleVersionsPackage" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.CompareBibleVersionsPackage</a><br>
<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Paul Mooring<div>Operations Engineer</div><div>Chef</div></div>
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