Hey! This is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps! Now today, I want
to ask how serious should we be about this kind of stuff.
Okay, so today, I'm coming to you from the Departures Lounge at the Heathrow Airport..
Don't say I never bring you anywhere nice. So, I'm ready to get on a
12-hour flight to Singapore and then I'm gonna change, stay there a couple hours,
get on the three-hour flight to Hanoi. That's like 15 hours from now. I won't
get there till tomorrow, so I thought we might as well talk a little bit here
today. And you know, I don't think I've ever done it from the airport before. So,
something new. Today, I want to respond to a comment that came in
just a few days ago from Bhargav Mehta. Now, this is not a mean comment, so please
don't say anything mean. I took it to be not a mean comment and
it's not what I'm talking about. It said, "Subscribed but it's annoying when
you laugh while speaking. Your channel is serious bro. Is it you're insane,
your channel is a serious Channel bro. Very good videos but you should remember
that your most audience is in high tension as they are preparing a plunge
and it's in its final stage of launch. Smile is however good, but please avoid
laughs especially while speaking as we can't hear you properly while you laugh.
And it distracts. If you must laugh, pause and then continue. Good luck!" You know, I
don't think I can help it. Hahaha I did. I just think it would be
inauthentic. And I'm sorry if sometimes it seems like - by the way I did not take
this to be a mean comment. The good luck at the end and everything that I really
appreciate, Bhargav. I really appreciate the comment. There's lots of
things with speaking in public or speaking in general that I really need
to work on and I'm Itrying. So, any kind of constructive feedback is good.
However, there's one thing - if it doesn't seem like I take the like apps and
everything seriously, I do. Obviously, it's my
life. It's my income. You know, if something goes wrong in the App Store,
oh yeah, I'm all serious. Everything stops. I'll cancel the dinner
appointment, I'll cancel going out to the movies with my kids, I'll
cancel the holidays that I gotta sort this out. For some reason, AdMob
was rejected something or something got suspended somewhere, that's
something that's all very, very seriously. But I don't think it's healthy to take
everything so seriously. Especially with the app launch. I don't want you to
think that because this is a big thing that indie developers have.
That's different than like a corporation. If you go to a corporation and they're
investing a lot of money into something, you go into meeting, after meeting, after
meeting and everybody talks about, "Oh, are we sure this is gonna work? What's our
fallback?" You know, is that everything - everything's very, very serious and
nobody's playful with software. And the beauty of apps is that
you could be playful with it. You can launch new things, you get things out
there. And the reality of the fact is when you release your first app you're
probably gonna be disappointed by that initial flow of downloads.
But that's good because that's you could start getting the
feedback at least and you start to perfect the model a little bit. Then
before you start funneling money into advertisements and everything like that,
to get people and to use it properly, you can start testing and tweaking
little things. Some things people are gonna say. There's certain things that
you're gonna learn about your user base once they start using your application
And I think the process should be fun. it's
easy to say it after the fact - it's easy to say it when you don't have
a release coming up. It's so easy to say that kind of stuff.
I'm very serious when it comes to clients and with client work and stuff
like that, but it gets really draining after a while. I've had too many, too much
tension in my life from this kind of stuff. So, I apologize if I laugh
while I talk. I'll try to stop and then be more serious, but you know, I take what
you say. I'll try - I will try not to laugh so much when I talk. But
sometimes - sometimes this stuff is funny. Sometimes it's the idea that
we all go through the same problems that we all have the same kind of stuff happen (laughs)
Sorry, I laughed and talked - in fact all this stuff happens at the
same time to me is hysterical. Sometimes, I can't help but laugh about
it. Because even when I'm having my worst day, I'm glad I could come here and
talk about a little bit. Sometimes, just talking about it makes it a little
less stressful. You know, when you have -and you have stress
about things that to normal people, would be ridiculou.
People aren't clicking on the blue button. I'm wondering if blue is a good
shade or it should be pink or I'm wondering if my in-app purchases are
working and all that kind of stuff. So anyway, I took what you say Bhargav. I
hope that doesn't bother you too much. And I'll try to be a little bit more
serious. I will try to be a little bit more serious in the future, but not too
serious. Anyway, that's it for today. I'll talk to you, guys, tomorrow!