Jamcam Entrepreneurial story: Quit your job and develop an application

Editor's note: This is the Jamcam Founder's README. The application offered by the start-up is simple, but extremely successful: with Jamcam, the video you are recording will automatically add the music you are listening to on the iphone as a background music for the video. Is it more convenient to share with friends? It downloads more than 5,000 times in the first week of release. And its founder's story begins with self-study on Google. Spontaneous learning: completely curious. One year after graduating from college, I worked for a small company on the outskirts of Toronto to be an audio-visual technical advisor. The company takes on some very cool projects, including the design of cinema shapes and the silencing of large buildings. This past summer, I had to sit at my desk to finish this week's report, one hour before lunch in Thursday, but I was distressed. It was not the submission deadline for distressed reports, but rather the inability to concentrate on completing the report. I don't want to sit at a table for the rest of my life writing such a report. As a matter of fact, I don't even want to do this for the rest of the week. It's not that I'm lazy, or that I prefer to stay in bed and watch TV all the while. In fact, the opposite is true. Over the past year, I've spent most of my free time learning how to program, Html,css,javascript,php,mysql, and C. I do a lot of things that I find very interesting, and each step in the process of development through Google search out the relevant help tutorials self-study. I really like this kind of learning method for the purpose of accomplishing a particular task, rather than the way to learn for the sake of learning (the current pattern of schooling is, in some way). I always had a prototype in my mind about what I was going to do-though I hadn't begun to realize it. More importantly, I like the feeling that there is a complete autonomic control over the function and appearance of a product, which is the most important part of the user experience. Resign and start a business However, now I, sitting at this desk, the year in this company learned the knowledge, from the stomach spit out, chewing, to create a work report. I learned a lot, of course, there is a lot to learn. But some things are torturing me, obviously, in a small technical consultancy, there is a lack of creativity, lack of freedom, and a lack of room for self-improvement. And it is becoming increasingly apparent that daydreaming about programming and design "cannot be avoided, and cannot be suppressed for much longer." At lunch time, I was still struggling to write my report. Before I went out to eat, I drove to the curb, stopped and sat quietly for a few minutes. I called my girlfriend and told her I'd quit my job tomorrow. She supported my decision. My conversations with my parents in the evening drew similar conclusions-though they had more worries. They believe me, just don't know if it's the best time for me to quit my business. But I'm pretty sure. The next day I knew the boss, but still stayed for a few weeks to finish my job and transfer the training to the person who took my job. At the mostAfter the end of the day, I felt great on the 40-minute trip home. I was finally free to do whatever I wanted to do-totally self control. There are no trifles to disturb. I have accumulated enough money to support my entrepreneurial life. I've got a couple of ideas that I can start with. Product development in the next few weeks, I spent all my time thinking, planning, and doing all kinds of communication and PR activities in real life. I finally set a goal and started to develop it. I spend about 90% of my time at home developing and other time in cafes. After 2 months of resignation, I spent one months completing the 1.0 version of Jamcam. I can talk about it a lot here, but I think it's the easiest way to see for yourself. The unexpected success of the release of Jamcam was more successful than I expected. A friend submitted its link in Reddit, and it got hot--rushed to the top of the iphone and kept it for a whole day. I've never seen a huge influx of visitors from all over the world, with an average of 20 online users at any given time. With more than 3,000 visitors all day, this is enough to get the app into the popular list in many countries ' app stores. In the United States and Canada in the image and video application classification, it ranks among the top 250 application list, in some countries even stormed the top 50. This application downloaded more than 5,000 times in the first week. Then TechCrunch reported it. And what makes me wonder is that more than 600 micro blogs have talked about my own not-so-good apps, which has also brought me quite a lot of traffic. The joy of success and the desire for more success came to me now in writing this article. On the one hand, I was amazed, excited and honored by my success--the first application I developed. On the other hand, what worries me is that although there seems to be a good success at the moment, the road to the first place in the App Store is long. With a lot of apps in the App Store, it makes me wonder why there are a lot of mediocre applications that keep their ratings. In spite of the existence of these doubts and the unknown obstacles to their future, I am quite certain that the past few months will be the most fulfilling, exciting and meaningful months of my life. It sounds dramatic, but it's true for me. It's incredible to me to wake up excited every morning and be able to use my ability to turn ideas into products and thousands of people. I will work harder and earn more money to keep this dream-reality change going, and I will never regret this experience even if I am bankrupt or exhausted. Experience summary and future improvement direction to oneself dry, even after paying a lot of failure, also than to others dry strong. It is difficult to get up the courage to resign, unless you think clearly about your decision. Patience is the key to self-study. Maybe within a few days or weeks you don't feel much progress, butAfter a few months, you'll be amazed at how much technology you've learned (with Google's help, of course). You may not be encouraged or rewarded for weeks or months in the process of developing a product, don't worry. It takes time to develop a product (especially if you're doing it yourself, designing yourself, coding yourself), and staying focused and believing will be a real mental struggle during this period. Get advice, but don't accept it all. As a developer, one of the most important skills is to understand whether a functional feature of the increase or decrease will bring positive impact on the product, or make the product deviate from the core concepts and goals. Often think of those days before you used to commute to work daily life, and then consider now, you will proudly say to yourself: no longer have that kind of life!