Today, my friend sent me a link about a nine year old kid who wrote an iPhone app that gets 2000 downloads per week. I am a 28 year old software developer and have been failing to write an iPhone app for months. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out my dad bought an iPhone. I've spent the better part of the last six months teaching him how to check his email and online newspapers. FML
Today, I discovered that my dad still doesn't consider my career as an app developer a "real job". FML
Today, my jobless husband wants to buy the latest iPhone. His current phone is in good condition, except that he has a 1000 apps on it slowing it down. We're also in deeply crushing debt from all his bad financial decisions from his severely loss-making business. FML
Today, I bought my girlfriend an iPhone. I preloaded it with a bunch of cool apps and stuff and spent a lot and money. She used it to send a text to me 3 hours later saying that she thought we should break up. FML
Today, my father is really enjoying the iPhone my mother gave him for Christmas. He's enjoying it so much that he's already installed all sorts of dating apps. FML
Today, I was bored. Some people would've called up friends to hang out. Not me. I had the sudden urge to make an entire Excel Spreadsheet on how much I've spent on iTunes, month-by-month. I'm not sure what's worse, that I got really into it, or that I've spent nearly $800.00 on iTunes. FML
Today, after six months of building my SaaS (Software as a service) every night after work while juggling life with three kids, I finally launched it. Two months later, it’s still getting almost zero traffic. Turns out building the product was the easy part… getting people to actually visit it is the real nightmare. FML
Today, I found out that my girlfriend hasn't really been "researching" for work on the Internet; she's actually been tweeting the same pathetic plea to a guy from One Direction asking him to "follow" her. She's 29. FML
Today, my 9 year old nephew found his way onto my iTunes. I now have 401 songs titled "aidfj3P" by "ffjiel". FML
Today, I found out my fourteen-year-old daughter is making more money than me, thanks to babysitting and winning writing contests. FML
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kvn_fml 0
That kid's dad helped his ass.
TheAdviceGuy 0
Lets all make an app together about beating the shit out of 9 year olds who can make iphone apps.
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Comments (52)
guitar0501 0
develop a **** app. You could get 2000 downloads a DAY!
garble0218 0
hey no worries. kids these days have an advantage because they are born when these tools became available. us older devs had to wait until much later in our lives. this kid practically learned to speak when the iPhone was being conceptualized
caperkid65 0
YDI QQ .
xGTFx 0
damn, first year computer science students make apps here...
TheDarkCynder 2
He didn't code it from scrap.
ntherewas1 11
Not only hot jocks get women nowadays. Success is attractive.
ntherewas1 11
Ooh that sounded harsh. I meant, I agree with the poster I replied to =) you don't have to completely change who you are to get people interested in you! Just endeavour the best you can in your chosen pursuit.
deadlyriot101 7
It could just be a noisemaker app or something. Seriously, those are almost pathetically easy to make.
Mayshod 3
The world needs ditch diggers too Danny.
pedosmurf 7
What's the app called?