Joe,

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).

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.

Best of luck,


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:16 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

> Just to clarify ...
>
> David Schwartz and Paul Mooring last wrote, in part:
>
> >> David wrote: I’ve talked with Joe about his app. To his credit,
> >> he’s focused mainly on the app. But what he’s missed is that,
> >> IMHO, he’s over-spec'ed it to the point where you'd need so much
> >> custom code to implement what appears to be a simple tool that
> >> he’ll never be happy with the end result.
>
> > Paul wrote: As far as Joe's project being "over-spec'ed" in any
> > case the spec is what it is. When I referred to the "just one
> > more thing" problem before, I meant the same thing I think you
> > mean when you say it's overspec'ed. there's nothing wrong with
> > wanting things a particular way and the best apps/projects
> > really do sweat the details. The root of the problem is that
> > non-devs *greatly* underestimate the time and effort involved
> > in those details.
>
>
> Just to clarify my objective ...
>
> There is nothing in my exactingly detailed "app" specs that does not
> already exist in hundreds of FREE apps that currently appear in the
> Google Playstore.
>
> How likely is it that someone paid $100,000 or $10,000 or even just
> $2,000 to get one of those hundreds of FREE apps built in order to just
> give them away FREE?
>
> Therefore, it is difficult for me to understand why, when there is such a
> proliferation of apps currently doing the simple things that I am seeking
> to do, that it could be so difficult, so time-demanding, and so costly to
> replicate those simple FREE apps that already exist in such abundance?
>
> Friends ... I'm not trying to invent a new wheel, here.
>
> I'm just trying to get an app built that can read one single book, search
> for chapters to read, scroll-within chapters, flip-pages from chapter to
> chapter, and search for keywords within that one book ... all of which my
> current html-only websites are now doing.
>
> Surely it cannot be so difficult to accomplish the same thing with an
> Android app?
>
> BTW: It cost me only $200 bucks to get the current first-edition of this
> app built (by a novice) and launched with an opening screen that fills
> the screen perfectly in both portrait and rotated to landscape modes.
>
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.CompareBibleVersionsPackage
>
>
>
>


-- 
Paul Mooring
Operations Engineer
Chef