Mastodawn

Ask HN: Solo Senior Developers, Where do we find you?

I need someone to partner with me to launch my application. I am a construction professional and have created a application that is in a untapped field. It is an amazing tool, completely offline, no cloud, no accounts, no subacription. No one wants that crap! All the mobile apps built for us construction professionals are terrible I have tried them all.

I've approached numerous mobile app developers and all of have no avenue for consulting or partnering to launch an application. They all charge insane fees before a build even takes place.

Where do we find you!

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smalltorch Mar 19

More context. What I have built goes for 1600 lifetime access on a desktop. I have successfully built an application for Android that does everything the field guys want.

It turns out...that's may be the easiest part. Google has successfully gatekept that last 10 percent of launching.

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thrtythreeforty Mar 19

Pay your $25, upload an APK, and it's launched. What's left?

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georgemcbay

There's a bit more steps than that for someone who hasn't yet launched a Play Store app. When I launched a hobby app I had to find and maintain 20 unique testers (they have since reduced it to 12, I think? it was 20 back in 2024) willing to test the app for 2 weeks before Google let me list it on the Play Store.

Though even this wasn't that hard... I easily found more testers than I needed on a relevant subreddit (the app is a PvP stat tracking app for a videogame, and I found plenty of people willing to sign up to test my app on a subreddit dedicated to that videogame).