Interested in Making and Selling Apps?
Angry Birds was making $10 million a year in 2010 (and that's just from the app), iShoot made over $600,000 in a single month, and a simple-minded app called iFart that, you guessed it,makes fart noises managed to rake in $27,000 over a two day period during the holiday season.
Apps are big business and there's no denying that. Anybody with even an ounce of interested in making money in the game and technology industry knows that those aren't numbers to sneeze at.
They also know that as time goes by, it will only become harder to earn big with apps, unless a new market opens up (for example, many apps that are available in the Apple App Store aren't in the Android Marketplace, now called Google Play). However, that doesn't mean it's impossible as many new apps introduced to the App Store today are still getting a pretty huge reception.
My Experience with iPhone Apps
Now I'm not exactly new to the world of iPhone applications, having made a couple apps with some friends and even putting them on the Apple App Store, but for those who are new or at least need help figured out what to do, How to Make iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience is a great investment.
Like I said before, I do have some experience with making iPhone apps, but not in the actual "make" sense. I came up with the idea while a friend did all the heavy lifting with designing and making it a tangible product. Eventually we decided to pull the app in hopes of recreating it into something better, but time passed and it was soon forgotten about.
Recently I decided to jump back into the app game and try my hand at making some new apps... well, that didn't blow over very well. For one, I didn't have a clue how to actually make an app, and secondly I couldn't remember for the life of me how to actually submit apps to the store. (again, idea person!)
I did some research online to see if I could learn how to create apps but again, that was a fail plan, too. I remember reading somewhere about paying someone else to make the app for you which sounded great but I didn't know where to start. Then I came across Free the Apps! and their 
How to Make iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience eBook which not only turned me in the right direction, but also walked me through it all.
How to Make iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience eBook which not only turned me in the right direction, but also walked me through it all.Who are Free the Apps!?
If you've been researching information on creating iPhone apps or looking up the profits made by certain apps then you might have heard of Free the Apps!, an iPhone app development team of two: Michael Moon and Quoc Bui. Their success with apps can be read about in quite a few articles found throughout the web.
To save you some time, Moon and Quoc were college students who wanted to create apps, and they did... by completely outsourcing their work. Two or three years and 20+ apps later, they were maintaining an $800,000/year business just by coming up with ideas and paying someone else to make it a reality.
Together in late 2010 they co-published an eBook (obviously the one this article is about!) which would instruct readers on how to make apps and have them sold in the App Store by following the exact same steps that they did without a single thing differently. It's pretty impressive!
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Thoughts on the eBook
For someone who's brand new to the world of making apps and having them sold in the App Store, I really and truly believe that this is a great book that you will find invaluable. Of course, those with experience might not find it too be very useful, though.
Here is a list of some things that are covered in the book:
- How to find someone to make your apps.
- Business paperwork and legal issues that need to be addressed and how to do it.
- Hardware and software that you'll need.
- Putting ideas together for apps.
- Paid apps vs. free apps.
- How to open up an Apple developer account.
- How to publish your app to the App Store.
- How to test out and examine your finished app to make sure it works.
- Promoting your finished app to the world.
Depending on where you purchase the book, it's also possible to get a FREEexample app source code (in case, you know, you feel like making an app yourself) and another two extra eBooks, How to Make iPad Apps and How to Make Money from Free Apps.
The only bad thing I have to say about the book is the price -- while on Amazon you can purchase it for $10 (it says $39.99 above for some reason but it's not), if you buy it directly from their site it can cost anywhere from $97 to $297! That's like highway robbery if you ask me, even for a great resource such as this!
While I'm only sure of receiving the example source code and two free eBooks when you buy directly from Free the Apps!, I still think that's a ridiculous price difference for something you don't need (you're planning on paying someone else to do the work, not do it yourself!) and two eBooks with one pointing out the painfully already obvious and the other telling you the exact same thing as the original eBook in 10 pages.
Even though Free the Apps! is crazy for pricing their eBook so differently on each site, I do believe paying $10 for the original book itself is a total steal ($50 would even be fair), so I wouldn't hesitate to suggest this title to someone interested in breaking into the app industry.
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