Cogitu

I resigned my full time job to focus on Cogitu exactly one month ago from today. Time sure does fly. I still have zero regrets about my decision - I believe it was absolutely the right thing to do...whether I can succeed as an indie or not. I'd like to do a lessons learned / observations post in the not too distant future - to share what I've figured out about life as an indie - but it'll have to wait until a different day. Lots to do this week, so I'm going to keep this one extra short.

The Story Thus Far

The first few weeks we spent getting Pinball Mini revved up for version 2.0. It took a little longer than I had planned, but I think the time was worth it. I finally got all of my business taxes and licenses all squared away and paid up which feels pretty great. The initial design work has started on the iPad personal finance application...but it's not nearly as far along as I'd like. It turns out, designing for a device you've never touched using interactions you've only glimpsed in a single video is - well - challenging. I think I've settled on a V1 design as of last Saturday...or at least a V1 to work with until April 3rd.

This Week

The final artwork for Pinball Mini 2.0 just arrived, so the first priority is to get it integrated, the new boards coded up/tested, and get the app off to Apple for approval. Shortly after submitting it, I'm going to try to work up a little marketing plan - just to try a couple of things. The big focus after PM 2.0 though is the iPad app. A skeleton of view controllers is already built, the database has been framed in, but everything else still needs to be done...it's going to be a *lot* of iPad work this week. My goal is to have the app in an alpha level state by April 3rd and finished no later than May 3rd.