David Emery OnlineLooking Under Rocks
5 July 2005
If you haven’t seen these yet, go check them out now:
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O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference ‘04, How To Run Your Own Software Business presentation with Oliver Breidenbach, Steve Dekorte, Steve Gehrman, Will Shipley, Brent Simmons, and Dan Wood (via Niall Kennedy’s Weblog as seen on Dan Wood’s Blog )
The main point behind both of these talks (other then being quite amusing) is that it really isn’t that hard to start your own mac software development business – all of the people in these talks started from basically nothing, and have now built up – relatively – successful businesses.
So why aren’t there more of them?
I am currently looking for a job, preferably doing Cocoa development (I find user interface design the most stimulating work you can do, along with creating apps that no-one has tried to do before; Cocoa makes both of these things achievable without lengthy development times and over-complex code), but in this country – England, specifically the London area but it doesn’t seem to make a difference – you could probably count the active cocoa developers on the fingers of one hand. Obviously, this makes trying to get a job doing mac development pretty hard, so it’s lucky that I do the whole CSS/Xhtml/Graphics thing as well. There is, however, a glut of mac developers in the US, and I’d love to emigrate, but I doubt there would be any mac developers dong cocoa dev (with the obvious exception of Apple) big enough to get me a green card.
Of course, from listening to those talks I should just start my own mac company and, really, that’s exactly what I’d like to do (a London-based rival for Delicious Monster is long overdue).
But it’s not that simple, is it?
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If anyone reading knows of any opportunities, whether macintosh development, user interface design or web design/development, based in the London area (or telecomutable) please get in touch. I am also available for freelance work of any of the above, as well.