Let’s try to put this all together in one last post, shall we?
Killer Sudoku Aide is basically ready to go. The functional code has been locked down for weeks, but there have been weeks of tweaking the interface’s look, updating things to improve the accessibility, and getting ducks in a row to get it in front of beta testers. (If I can find any beta testers. Please? Someone?)
You need to maintain a surprising number of web pages to have an app in the iOS App Store. There are probably more than I currently know, but at least you have to have a support contact page and a privacy policy page.
Where to put them?
Because lonelocust.com had become all about me, I didn’t think it would be a good fit. Besides, I own other domains, just doing nothing. I plan to revive the Pizza Locust in some form. Spottings seems inappropriate. I know! Ninja Team! That’s a cool name no matter what you tag it onto, and ninjateam.com is mine – and has been forever. (In Internet years)
There’s just one problem. Somebody, in the intervening years, grabbed the (frankly, inferior) ninjateam.org variant of that domain name and set up a business. I’m surprised they never tried to buy ninjateam.com from me.
If they’d been an accounting firm, a sprocket manufacturer, a company that vacuums out portable toilets on construction sites, or practically any other kind of business, I’d just continue on with my plans and use my domain for my apps.
But, of course, they’re a software consulting company, and I don’t want to cause any unnecessary confusion, so I will leave it until I have some other project I can use it with.
My hubris for thinking businesses would honor the moral and ethical superiority of the .com domain and banking on that assumption.
…and that brings me back to lonelocust.com.
Which is why I’m re-organizing things here. I’m not ready to delete all my old blog posts, but I can play them down by moving them to a sub-page. And I can bury the old ones a bit by making an effort to have some more current content. (Like, for example, making a bunch of blog posts explaining why I’m making a bunch of blog posts.)
At this point, with precisely one app, and currently no plans or ideas for a second one, I don’t feel like playing the game of pretending I’m not just one guy writing an app, nor am I in any way ashamed of who I am. (Youth is the time to doubt yourself when you have yet to measure yourself up to the rest of the world, old age is the time to know and not to give a crap anymore.)
I do feel like I should do a little more long-form writing for a bit, so perhaps I’ll tell the story of the development of Killer Sudoku Aide.
Next time.