App idea, who to contact

[Sweetbike40]

If i have an Application idea, who would i contact? I have no idea how to make these.

(not looking for how to make the app, but who to give the idea to and get credit for it)

 

[plumbingandtech]

Here is a good start.

Remember though. Ideas are next to worthless and the real work has yet to be done.

 

[mattmccarty]

Just start emailing developers bro!

Here a few good ones.

Tapulous

Igloo-Games

Gyrocade

 

[The General]

What is your idea?

 

[kfordham281]

Here's someone:

http://infinitenil.com/blog/2008/06/06/infinitenil-available-for-iphone-development/

 

[oftheheavens]

What is your idea?

if he is smart enough to come up with a selling idea, i hope he is not dumb enough to tell you what it is without getting a copyright first....

dude if you really have a good idea make sure you take the proper steps to protect it before you go calling/emailing developers. otherwise they can just steal your idea and rake in the dough

 

[The General]

if he is smart enough to come up with a selling idea, i hope he is not dumb enough to tell you what it is without getting a copyright first....

dude if you really have a good idea make sure you take the proper steps to protect it before you go calling/emailing developers. otherwise they can just steal your idea and rake in the dough

What is this? Some sort of get rich quick scheme? What do you care more about? Making a good program, or making money? My god, what has this world come to?

 

[oftheheavens]

What is this? Some sort of get rich quick scheme? What do you care more about? Making a good program, or making money? My god, what has this world come to?

ummm lets see....MONEY! last time I check you need money to live and that would make it #1 on my list. No money=no food for my family and no toys for me.

If you have a really good idea you should patent it and publish it. if it is good enough charge for it and get whats yours! the world revolves around money so make it!

 

[plumbingandtech]

ummm lets see....MONEY! last time I check you need money to live and that would make it #1 on my list. No money=no food for my family and no toys for me.

If you have a really good idea you should patent it and publish it. if it is good enough charge for it and get whats yours! the world revolves around money so make it!

I'm guessing you are not in the software business are you?

...and you can not copyright an idea FYI.

 

[The General]

ummm lets see....MONEY! last time I check you need money to live and that would make it #1 on my list. No money=no food for my family and no toys for me.

If you have a really good idea you should patent it and publish it. if it is good enough charge for it and get whats yours! the world revolves around money so make it!

Please, you act like his life is at the stake of this app's success in the AppStore.

Get real.

 

[sanPietro98]

Remember though. Ideas are next to worthless and the real work has yet to be done.

I disagree. A good idea is (at least) half the challenge. I've seen too many projects and applications that were developed flawlessly and meticulously with a fantastic design and code. But when they implement a bad idea, the end result is worthless and everyone wasted their time and money.

Of course, an idea is not enough. And (as a professional SW Engineer) I understand that a good design and implementation is crucial and very difficult. But the idea is what drives everything. Without a good, fleshed-out idea, you are never going to have a good app.

If the idea is a solution to a real problem then you've got something golden. Too many apps have cool features but don't solve any problems or only solve them partially.

 

[Sweetbike40]

Thank you everyone for your ideas and suggestions. I'm not expecting to get rich from it, just wouldn't want to give my idea away and see someone else get rich from it!!
I understand the real work is in creating it, i'd just like credit of some kind is all.

 

[plumbingandtech]

I disagree. A good idea is (at least) half the challenge. I've seen too many projects and applications that were developed flawlessly and meticulously with a fantastic design and code. But when they implement a bad idea, the end result is worthless and everyone wasted their time and money.

Of course, an idea is not enough. And (as a professional SW Engineer) I understand that a good design and implementation is crucial and very difficult. But the idea is what drives everything. Without a good, fleshed-out idea, you are never going to have a good app.

If the idea is a solution to a real problem then you've got something golden. Too many apps have cool features but don't solve any problems or only solve them partially.

I was going from the baseline of the idea was a good one and was marketable.

 

[sanPietro98]

I was going from the baseline of the idea was a good one and was marketable.

Sorry if I got the wrong impression from your post.

I work in R&D and I see too many smart people that think cool/innovative features will sell and completely forget about the problem being solved.

 

[The General]

So what is the idea, then?

 

[Daiden]

I disagree. A good idea is (at least) half the challenge. I've seen too many projects and applications that were developed flawlessly and meticulously with a fantastic design and code. But when they implement a bad idea, the end result is worthless and everyone wasted their time and money.

Of course, an idea is not enough. And (as a professional SW Engineer) I understand that a good design and implementation is crucial and very difficult. But the idea is what drives everything. Without a good, fleshed-out idea, you are never going to have a good app.

If the idea is a solution to a real problem then you've got something golden. Too many apps have cool features but don't solve any problems or only solve them partially.

A good idea is 10% of a final project. For example, just saying "I want a baseball stats app" is stupid. Creating and executing the correct implementation is the biggest factor.

 

[sanPietro98]

A good idea is 10% of a final project. For example, just saying "I want a baseball stats app" is stupid. Creating and executing the correct implementation is the biggest factor.

I partially agree. Just saying "I want a baseball stats app" is a pseudo-random firing of neurons that makes him happy. But when I say an "idea", what I really mean is an idea of a solution to a real problem. Such as, "a baseball stats app that makes the game interesting because I can change the Network TV Camera view with my iPhone's accelerometer." That's solving a very big problem .

I think that the fully-fleshed out "solution idea" is about 50% and the proper execution is also 50% (because you need to deliver on your idea).

But I mostly agree with you -- I think we're in violent agreement.

 

[oftheheavens]

Please, you act like his life is at the stake of this app's success in the AppStore.

Get real.

im not going to even argue this anymore. you are right money is not important so lets all just create something great and give it away for free. there you win

 

[JML42691]

If you aren't going to give out what the idea is (and I can respect that), then at least tell us what genre of an app that it would fall into. At least then we can help out a little more by pointing to certain developers and such. You wouldn't want to be sent to a game developer if it wasn't a game.

 

[MathiasMag]

A good idea is 10% of a final project. For example, just saying "I want a baseball stats app" is stupid. Creating and executing the correct implementation is the biggest factor.

It may be 10% of the work, but it may also be 98% of the value. Do you think the guy who invented gmail got his bonus (enough that he retired) for the idea and vision or for the lines of code he wrote to implement? I'm pretty sure he'd have gotten the same bonus even if he had not written any of the code (not sure he did), but just writing high quality code without the vision would probably just have gotten him a nice developer lead position on his next assignment

 

[LoganT]

So what is the idea, then?

It sounds like you want to learn the idea so you can steal it. Just saying.