My Big News

I teased about this over the weekend and it seems most of my friends think that my wife and I are pregnant.

The big news IS about a life-changing event, but not about bringing a new life into this world. Today marks my first full-time day working on my own. I'm phasing out of my day-job and into my own business as an Independent App Developer.

I've been incredibly fortunate to be in this situation and want to thank my wife who has endured the late-night coding sessions and my steering our conversations back to apps and app ideas.

I'm humbled and delighted to know that there are literally millions of people using Flashlight, and I intend to continue to improve Flashlight and release new apps VERY SOON. My plan is to release two new apps this year, with many more apps and updates coming soon too.

I will work from my cloffice (closet office) in my house. My daughter plans to come greet me whenever she wakes up in the morning, and I'll have lunch with my family. I'm thrilled about this new flexibility and freedom and very excited about being able to actually create more of my list of 60+ app ideas!

I'll be blogging a bit more, tweeting a bit more, and coding a LOT more. :-)

Halloween and Flashlight

I have not mentioned yet, but I really really love Apple's iAd web portal. It's really great to be able to see hourly charts and it's fun to be able to see when people begin using Flashlight more during the evenings:

Top iAd countries so far

With the recent addition of iAds internationally, I took a look at my stats and thought it might be interesting to share with you what countries are getting the most impressions right now. All of my iAd impressions right now are from Flashlight

United States
UK/GB
Unknown
Korea, Republic of
France
Saudi Arabia
(Empty)
Israel
China
Mexico
Australia
Japan
Norway
Canada
Malaysia

The UK/GB was about 3% of the US in terms of numbers of impressions, with the other countries trailing off quickly after… Still, this list of the top 15 adds up to around 5.4% of the US impressions

Here are the next 15 countries:

Brazil
Malaysia
Reunion
South Africa
Singapore
Taiwan
Argentina
Finland
Greece
Kuwait
Netherlands
Hong Kong
India
Brunei Darussalam
Serbia