I think we programmers always have projects that never seem to get finished. It could be an app that you’ve been working on for a long time, but it still needs some polish before you think it’s ready to ship. Not to mention all those great ideas that you have for new apps that you haven’t even stared working on.
Today Seth Godin has a great post about shipping something that scares you. He includes an intimidatingly long list of things he shipped in 2010. And then encourages readers to post their own lists.
So here’s my list of apps that I worked on and that shipped in 2010:
- Created the first iOS app that integrates with the Yahoo! Store backend for California Blooms.
- 67 apps in the College SuperFans series for our client SmartPhones Technologies.
- College Scoreboard for football and basketball.
- NutriSleuth, a medical app that could literally save lives.
- Thomas Tilt and Go – a game for HiT entertainment.
- Updates to Angelina Ballerina – another HiT brand.
- Helped my friend Marty ship the first issue of the Omega 1 Motion Comic Movie experience.
In addition there are a few projects in progress that are in review or are almost ready to submit. But that doesn’t count in this context.
The reason for publishing this list is not to brag (although I am quite proud of it), it’s to emphasize that the goal is to ship things. In our case that means getting the apps live on the App Store.
Need help getting things out the door? Checkout Seth Godin’s latest book Linchpin. And the accompanying ShipIt Workbook.
What have you shipped this year? Write a blog post, or submit a comment below. Don’t just post a link, write a story and tells us why shipping this product was scary.