Consulting

Why hire a "company of one" for your app project?

  • Direct access to those with technical skills, no middle-men!
  • No excuses, I take ownership and responsibility for the project.
  • Rapid development with little communications overhead.
  • Apps are smaller software projects that a single skilled programmer can take on in weeks or months. Apps are great solo projects. If your app is too ambitious and large for me to take on by myself, I will tell you so. I've turned down work this way before.
  • The variety of my work and clients provides a broad perspective that a full-time employee that only works on your projects may not have.

Services offered

My time is split between assisting clients and pursuing my own apps, so I bring an entrepreneurial mindset to your project.

I write code in Objective C for iOS-based devices. My experience includes:

  • Tying an iPhone app into a web-based API (JSON-RPC, REST, etc).
  • Taking large sets of data and importing them into SQLite to be accessible on the iOS device.
  • Interface design.
  • Web-based back-ends in PHP, Perl, and Python to provide data to iOS devices from a central server.
  • 2D game development and basic animation.
  • Navigation and geo-location.
  • Camera and imaging.

I can also help you in the earlier stages of app development:

  • Whether an app is technically practical.
  • Whether an app follows the spirit and letter of Apple's developer guidelines. I can tell you if an idea is "safe," in a potentially dangerous gray area, or is likely to be outright rejected.
  • I can answer any questions you might have about distributing an app in Apple's App Store, and help you through every step of the process.

Retainer

Due to extraordinary demand for my services, I currently do not spend uncompensated time preparing bids, estimates or demos. The retainer is necessary even to prepare an estimate or discuss a project in detail that you are interested in pursuing.

This requirement can be waived if detailed and unambiguous specifications of the project are provided.

It is also waived if I contacted you first.

Work location

I am happy to meet in person on a regular basis, but the bulk of my coding work takes place at home. I can travel anywhere in the Philadelphia area, or transit-accessible parts of Boston, New York City, or Washington DC.

If you want to hire me to come into your offices 9-5 every day, I'm not a good fit.