I am thrilled to announce the release of my very first app in the Google Play Store “Should I Buy It?”!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiodev.shouldibuyit.app
I started this app almost a year ago, right when I started learning Android development. And let me tell you, I think I’ve re-written this entire app about 4 times now! After a few months of tweaking (and learning in other side projects) I’d realized I had approached something wrong, so I’d rip it out and do it a better way. This went on and on as I learned more. It wasn’t quite feature-creep, but implementation-creep. I had to do things the right way! They had to be perfect! Remember that movie “Indie Game: The Movie”, where Phil Fish completely rewrites Fez like 800 times? I started to feel like that.
So last month I realized Phil Fish might be the last person I want to turn into, and I just need to get my app out there. Yes, I had a million ideas of how to make my app better. No, it wasn’t my idea of ready. But really….. if I kept this up I might never finish. I’d rather let people start playing with it now, and iterate quickly to make it better, than never get it out there. So I bit the bullet, and now my little app is out in the world. Yay!
Personal finance has always been very interesting to me, but I was largely inspired to write this app by a blogger Mr Money Mustache. He does a great job of showing people quick ‘back of the napkin’ type calculations that expose their ridiculous level of spending, and inspire them to improve their lives. I wanted my app to be that quick tool you can whip out at any moment to see how bad it really is to eat Illegal Pete’s for lunch every day.
