Craig of Coogee rivals Angry Birds: A victory for the "common man"
Craig Barber of Coogee, 35 Photo: Supplied
Craig Barber is a chart-topping Apple App developers competing neck-and-neck in some markets with popular Angry Birds game despite the fact that the 35-year-old from Coogee did not even know how to write a single line of code.
Barber is one of a number of entrepreneurs who rely on online computer programming technology to their ideas. His music app, car audio deck was $ US6360 by supporters of the Crowdfunding appbackr.com site and was financed by a Chinese woman who has never known who offered $ US2500 on outsourcing site Freelancer.com brought his idea to life. Now the application is in thousands of dollars will rake in sales, and even a few days in Greece ranked No. 2 overall in the charts of Apple’s iTunes App Store fee to compete head to head with surface Angry Birds . In other markets such as Australia and the United Kingdom is ranked in the top 100 paid apps in the music category.Advertisement: Story continues below
99 cents, about six months to create from concept to completion, displayed on the screen, large buttons that make it easy to control the people driving cars, the music on their own make your iPhone or iPod Touch while you concentrate on the road, Barber claims makes its application to operate a bit safer and easier while driving compared with pre-installed app Apple iPod, the smaller keys and is more complicated to use.
“The level of concentration and effort it takes to the iPod app or music is to use standards [while driving] much more difficult [car audio deck of the application],” said Barber. “The keys are smaller, the way in which we move through the music and more difficult.” An art director for a marketing agency in Sydney during the day would, Barber not reveal what he had to sell the music app – which launched worldwide in March – except to say that had sold thousands of copies and made more money from him, paid the K ele Chun freelancer in China has to develop it. ‘s has developed the second app Barber is successful, the first letter buddy , an application for those who work in marketing designed. He hopes to “transition” from his job and app development soon, but said he would wait until their applications have been earned him enough money to do it. Freelancer.com CEO Craig said Matt Barrie, history has shown how “the spark of an idea lit in a fully functional application, a product or a business” without any programming knowledge. “You do not need hundreds of thousands of dollars more in venture capital financing to turn your dreams into reality,” said Barrie. “We have to reach so many stories of Australian entrepreneurs and small businesses, the things that could make otherwise not do. Many end up creating new jobs, because their idea into a thriving business, and are capable of a global market of the bac k of a credit card. “No marketing budget for car audio deck Barber as for other projects has been used, said the purpose of sending copies of the amended application was for bloggers is a key to more sales are generated on Apple’s iTunes store.
“I contacted a number of leading websites around the internet … and I told them my phone … and kind of literally started to spread the word on-line through the word of mouth did. I tried people to participate with Twitter. I have a Facebook presence. So there is a push certain that you respect get out there.“I think at the end of the day, if it speak a good app people. It is up to sell to a degree. “
Some of the most important factors to generate a turnover of app they contain profiled on sites like appadvice.com , trendhunter.com and smh.com . au . “The response was really good,” said Barber SMH article that included his request.He added that he found “very strange” if he had been told that 10 years ago had an app that would do to rocket to the top of the iTunes App Store in different countries, without the support of Apple.
“Many developers will never reach,” he says. said
Some of the money would be made of his music app go now to make improvements to it, he said.
“I am in any event be some updates to the application itself and tells me the same thing and those who push the developer actually do a filing for the world. “
Below is a video promo deck of car audio:
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