Kreci

Check out http://www.kreci.net/ for some ideas. He's posted on HN about his experiences quitting his job (in Poland, I think), and various ways to earn over $1000/mo online. He had success with iStockPhoto (still earning a few hundred per month), website flipping, and more recently Android app development (which has eclipsed all other money making efforts).

http://www.kreci.net/ is PR 3 http://www.minimotherboard.com/ is PR 1 http://www.madhostreviewer.com/ is PR 2 http://tweetrandomizer.com/ is PR 4 It looks like PR 4 is the odd one out and not the norm

I need to warn the HN crowd. KreCi previously wrote an eBook on improving PageRank. There were a few good reviews and everything sounded great. He sold the site and the eBook on Flippa and make a few hundred bucks. Link to his blog post: http://www.kreci.net/blogging/pagerank-4-in-two-weeks/ Link to the ebook site (now owned by a Flippa purchaser): http://improve-pagerank.com/ I ended up purchasing his book a week or so ago. It was quite terrible. The "secret" was e-mailing bloggers for back links. The book was probably about 10 pages, 9 pages were about how to set up a blog, buying a domain (with affiliate links), and then there was one page about e-mailing bloggers for backlinks, and a few example e-mails he sent. I can't say I expected much, but I'm afraid someone else might waste their money on this sort of thing. All this being said, I think KreCi's site is pretty interesting and there was some valuable/useful information there. I just feel a bit ripped off from the book purchase. I take it as a lesson learned, but hopefully no one else needs to learn the lesson here too.

Think about this rationally: How much software do you actively use on your computer? I use perhaps 20 types of software. In total, I may have used 50 or 60 different software in my life. In contrast, I have about 4000 songs. One conclusion that one could make from that is that the app market will stop growing at some point because people will have the software they need. Seems like the logical step. But I'm in the app market, and the market is not what you think it us. People are not buying utilities, they are buying consumable software. For an example of what I mean, take a look at KreciDevs android apps: http://www.kreci.net/reports/android-developer-income-report/ X-Ray Scanner Daily Beauty Tips Those are consumable software and they are the most popular. WP Stats, what seems like more traditional software is the least popular. And I'm not pulling these numbers out of my arse, I write such software also, and I have 40k downloads a day. FourSquare boasts about gaining 100k users in 2 weeks - I do that in 3 days. I believe the nature of mobile software is fundamentally different from the nature of desktop software, and that growth could indeed follow the same curve as the music store.

Kinda looks like he leaves that kind of question to be answered by his ebook see here: http://www.kreci.net/android/make-money-on-android/ http://www.kreci.net/android/make-money-android/ Which just goes to show he can do marketing on more than just android. I guess I'll support it because I really like these income reports but I can't comment on whether the ebook is any good.

Chris has been very open with his earnings since he first quit his job last year (http://www.kreci.net/blogging/i-gave-up-a-day-job-to-make-a-living-fro… It's been inspirational to see how far he's progressed each month.

clickable: http://www.kreci.net/android/make-money-on-android/

He mentioned them in his last income report: http://www.kreci.net/reports/android-developer-income-report/

No problem, now that I am on lunch, I looked up a few others. Here is the Google guide I was talking about: http://developer.android.com/ here are some tutorials from there: http://developer.android.com/resources/index.html They call these tutorials but you are really just copying and pasting but I bet you could reverse engineer simple apps from this starting point. http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/index.html Here are a couple tutorials, I have not reviewed them much so it is up to you to decide if they are any good: http://www.activefrequency.com/blog/2009/ground-up-android-getting-sta… http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html These guys talk about their experience in app development. http://www.kreci.net/ http://www.bryandenny.com/index.php/2010/05/25/what-i-learned-from-wri… Of course there is the App Inventor but when I did their tutorials I felt a little more like I was building a pre-fab kit rather than learning how to create: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

For a framework we both like Zend Studio, it ties in with Eclipse and Subversion. Framework: http://www.zend.com/products/studio/ To learn Zend Studio: Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide http://www.amazon.com/Zend-Studio-Eclipse-Developers-Guide/dp/06723294… will walk you through it painlessly in a weekend. Subversion Setup: 1. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Subversion (This is unique to the Centos5/RHEL5 distro) 2. http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/03/02/setup-a-subversion-server-in-4-m… (This is unique to Fedora core 6) If you are using a different distro, look for it on the web. 3. http://www.kreci.net/linux/working-with-svn-how-to-start/ I am not a Subversion Guru, but as a PHP developer you will get the most benefit from it (productivity wise) if you can install it directly on your production server machine. This is because your development server, staging server, and production server environments will be identical, meaning you will not have to spend time re-coding to make your stuff run due to minor differences in servers. You can find free Subversion accounts on the web http://stackoverflow.com/questions/59791/free-online-private-svn-repos… but I do not recommend it for PHP because you lose the benefit of using it in identical development and production environments.