Hi, this is a minute of Overpass, my name is Eric and I make apps.
Now this week I wanna ask, "Do you actually need to know how to code in order to produce
an app?".
Okay, so a few weeks ago I made a video called "Marketers vs. Developers.
which one is better?" and kinda lent itself to the question "do I even know how to code
in order to release an app?".
And the truth is that you don't.
I hire other developers so, Overpass has a full time team.
We have three different developers, two designers, one marketing person and then also myself.
But I also hire developers in India from time to time and we have lots of people who I've
worked with in the past and I trust, I've worked with a lot more that hasn't worked
out but the team that I have at the moment and the developers I have at the moment I
really, really trust.
However, I could do a lot of the code myself but I don't.
Do we even need to know how to code?
I would like to say that it does help and it comes down to communication.
If you're hiring a developer and they come to you with an issue, say Facebook API has
changed or we need to rearrange some of these codes, and you don't really understand how
that works, or can't even understand the topic of conversation, they may as well be speaking
in another language.
So, if you were able to understand at least the basics of codes work, even if it's not
the same language, say like they know Objective C and you know JavaScript, then you kinda
have a foundation of how code works, functions and methods and all that kind of stuff to
know how things work.
So it does help.
Now, the fact of the matter is my developers don't do any codes that I could not do myself.
We're kind of all on the same ability level.
If they come to me with an issue saying, "I'm having trouble interfacing with this API"
then "hey, give it to me over the weekend and I'll work on it" and we do that all the
time and it really, really helps.
I've known so many people who have gone with an Indian firm and they say "I've hired this
Indian firm, they have my code and they say it's gonna be six weeks to put this change
in or whatever" and things just don't work out.
It's really easy to become a slave to somebody else if you can't do these simple things on
your own.
No, you don't need to know how to code in order to release an app, however I do think
it helps.
If you're releasing an app to Android and you would hire a developer to work on the
Android app, at the same time, why not pick up a book and start reading how the basics
of Android works or the basics of Java.
It's not, as I said a few weeks ago in a video, it's not impossible to learn a software language
at the moment.
In fact it's easier probably now than it ever was before.
It's so easy to learn.
So anyway, my message this week, do you need to know how to code?
No, you most definitely do not.
I know a lot of really good app developers who have never actually written any code themselves.
However, it really, really helps.
So, that's it for this week's minutes of Overpass, I hope you enjoy it.
I'll talk to you next week.
Is the app market done with?
No, it's not.
I'm living proof of it.
It works really really well but it's not a sure thing.
There's no easy money here.
So if you're developing an app or if you've released an app like a year ago, whatever,
and it didn't quite work out, I mean, keep trying at it, 'cause things just keep changing.
So that's it for this week's minute of Overpass.
I hope it's been helpful.
Don't lose heart, this is not the end of the app market.
Apps are not over.
Things are still going strong but it's a different playing field than it was a few years ago.
And if you can't keep up with the changes, then yeah, you're gonna fall by the wayside
and go to something else.
That's it, I'll talk to you next week.
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