So at 2 AM on a Monday, I took the purchase page live and sent out one single tweet. Enough money so that I would have to perform only two sexual favors for my landlord. But I figured that if I launched the app, it might make a few bucks. Good ol’ Californian rent was due in a week.ĬodeKit wasn’t perfect. The launch itself was excruciatingly, painstakingly planned down to the very last detail: the calendar got to April of 2012, I was about to graduate, and I had $1,000 left in my bank account. See, I was also the class president of my business school and I was supposed to be setting a good example. My career counselor was very stressed about my decision to skip the summer internship. Then do that over and over until you’re launching your car into space for no particular reason. I worked on the app late at night, on weekends, and over the summer when I was SUPPOSED to get a fancy internship at-oh, I dunno, what sounds impressive?-let’s say, Goldman Sachs.įind a problem, solve it, and tell people you solved it. I launched a public beta for CodeKit in November 2011, during my second year of graduate school for a finance MBA. Glossy icon highlights on textured linen.ĭescribe the process of launching the business. I basically took all of Apple’s worst UI decisions and put them in one app. To atone for past sins, I’ve included some early screenshots of CodeKit prototypes here. Get a PayPal or two under your belt before you try to colonize Mars. Picking the right problem-one where you don’t need to lean hard on others to understand it, let alone solve it-makes it easier to succeed. Don’t meet a guy in a bar one night who’s got seven engineering degrees you can’t pronounce and suddenly find yourself trying to manufacture a new carbon fiber rocket nozzle for SpaceX. You’re already a subject matter expert and the product or service you create will be better for it.įor that reason, if you’re just starting in entrepreneurship, I recommend playing in the sandboxes that you know. Solving your own problem is a huge luxury you don’t have to ask anyone else’s opinion or try to understand a market that’s foreign to you. I simply built the best app that I could to solve the problem. This is the part where I’m supposed to say that I A/B tested things and gathered fancy analytics that I fed into a machine-learning algorithm to predict exactly which shade of taupe produced the most conversions. Take us through the process of designing, prototyping, and manufacturing your first product. So I fired up Xcode and started a new app: “Less+” If you get hit in the face enough, you begin to learn. I didn’t use any of those, so I politely declined until, one day, it finally dawned on me that people were literally trying to give me money. Over the next few years, hundreds of people asked if I would build an app like this for other languages: Sass, CoffeeScript, French, etc.
With that said, let’s get on with the pontificating. The more problems you try to solve, the more likely you are to find them. To really succeed, you’ll have to find that right-thing-right-time sweet spot as well. I worked hard, but I happened to build the right app at the right time. Now, before we get any further into this, “I’M AN ENTREPRENEUR AND YOU CAN TOO!” article, I want to make it clear that I had a damn good bit of luck and timing on my side. When I’m not writing software, I fly airplanes upside down. The app is 10 years old and has built websites from to. It’ll compile files, auto-refresh browsers as you work, optimize images, etc.
#UNDERSTAP CODEKIT PROFESSIONAL#
Muzzle went to #2 on ProductHunt for the year, so of course, the rest of this article will be about CodeKit.ĬodeKit makes building websites easier for professional web developers by automating a lot of tasks. My claims to fame are CodeKit and Muzzle.
#UNDERSTAP CODEKIT SOFTWARE#
I’m Bryan and I own a software company that makes Mac apps.
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