William Wilkinson: My Stupid Gun App

ihavegoodtaste:

willw:

February 3rd 2009 I had a dumb idea…A Russian Roulette simulator for the iPhone, load the bullets, spin the barrel.

In about two hours I cutout a $6 stock photo of a revolver, spent $3 at Sound Dogs, designed the load screen…

After that I sent out a few tweets and posted here. That’s all for marketing. So how did my stupid gun app do?

In one month I made $16,000.

I had nonchalantly been paid $4k/hour at the ripe old age of 17. Two years later: it still makes enough to buy me lunch every day. 

Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.

//If everyone made even a quarter of the ideas we had, we’d all be rich.

TRUTH. Thinking is not enough. Talking about it is not enough. Craft it, build it, make it fucking happen.