I'm pretty sure about what I'm doing: Looking for a decent regular
job.
On May 7, 10:45 am, jazz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I joined the Challenge with a hope not much for the prize but more of
> validation of the ideas. After all the one-time cash prizes are not
> adequate to live on for most of us, but a career is. Like many, I've
> spent 1,000+ hours coding and debugging hoping to deliver a product
> which has a commercial value. The journey has been pleasantly smooth
> with most of my planed features implemented with time left to polish
> the interface. Nevertheless, I'm still in a shocking state that it's
> hard to face the fact I've already out of the race as I've not
> received any hit since April 30...
>
> So what's next? Start a new journey for Challenge II? Keep improving
> the current design? But what's the use? The phones running Android are
> not scheduled to be released at least until the end of the year. After
> that, it's still unknown how the general public will embrace Android
> based phones as it did to iPhone. Assuming it did, there might be at
> least a year or so before it hits the critical mass IF the carriers
> cooperate. Given the time table and uncertainty, how should we start a
> business based on all this and convince investors? Now if we have a
> day job and does this as a second, then it's probably fine. But what
> about starting a business or putting serious resources into the
> development?
>
> Now, I along with many other none-winning participants (okay, us
> losers) are at a juncture as what to do next. Any thoughts?
>
> -J
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