I’ve been wondering for ages if there is any possibility to ship an app to AppStore as an one-man-army person: programmer, UI/UX designer and product owner. Sounds crazy, but I read many successful stories about single developers who created simple, but very successfull apps.

The problem is, currently I work full-time job and soon another year of university will begin. Oh, such a shame, if only I had more time…

Well, there is still free time after 4 P.M., isn’t it?

If I want to achieve my goal — ship an app that doesn’t suck — I will have to work, code and design cleverly. And here is my personal guide how to do this. And also, track progress and share impressions what went terribly wrong.

The idea about app that will conquer Top 10 List stucked in my head in January and this is the date when I began researching about app creation. Sure, I had some (poor) knowledge about Objective-C(oh boy, I didn’t even know that ARC was introduced and I had been learning manual reference counting. In other words — learning from iOS4 book when iOS was rocking sucks), but nothing impressive. Yeah, I do know how to use blocks… But very simple ones and with some help. Hell, I even know how to create a simple table view app with JSON parsing… Whilst I forget about adding charstar to pointer.

For 8 months I’ve been collecting some good resources to kick off — for my app, and for general developing. I read many articles and some books. As Abraham Lincoln said:

“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet” is another great one by Abe.