I’m in San Francisco, 9000 kilometers away from him. Georg had limited experience programming for iOS and lives in Bavaria. James’ background is in motion graphics, and he’s never designed an app before. James and I still have never met in person.
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Still, the full team has never been in the same room together. James brought himself and his musician friends Nathan and Hani to the party. My trusty producer, Matt, was ready to manage the timeline. At the time, I had one developer, Georg, on a retainer contract but idling.
I’m used to hiring groups of amazing people from around the world on fun projects. I run a distributed agency out of San Francisco named Arbitrary. What makes me so proud of it is the challenges we invited ourselves to overcome in order to make it happen. It isn’t simply that everyone we show it to loves it. It’s not just that we think the game is beautiful, fluid and fun. Together and alongside our friends Nathan Mckee, Georg Fischer and Matt Cook, we had our team. That email, sent at the end of August 2015, kicked off one of my most cherished projects of my career. I’ve kept this project pretty hush hush till now and I’d like to keep it that way till its close to finished so please don’t share this. If you get a chance, let me know what you think. Here’s a link to a video I put together to show some of the elements I hope to bring together. I have a limited budget, but if you’re interested in the project I’m sure we can work something out. I know most of you guys are already super busy but I’d love to work with a friend of a friend if possible. It’s a music app for kids that hopefully could be fun for all ages. He spoke very highly of you and shared your contact as I’ve been looking for a developer for a project I’ve been working on. My name is James Bartley and I’m a friend of Jay Quercia. So, I suppose the best place to start is at the very beginning. How in the world did we manage to pull this off? How did we even get started?
We also tested it with over 30 kids, ranging from nine months to nine years old, in that timeframe. It works on iPhone 4s through iPhone 6s+ and iPad 2 through iPad Pro. In spite of that, we designed, programmed, animated and submitted the app in four months. Most of us still haven’t met in real life. To give you some context, I worked with five other people completely remotely. Seeing it live makes me reflect on the process that got us there: our failures and successes, some of the crazy stuff we figured out and what our hopes and dreams are. It’s been quite the adventure, and I’m thrilled to see it in the store.
Learn how Jamie Kosoy and his team overcame massive technical, mental and physical challenges to produce this amount of high quality.Īfter months of hard work, I’ve finally gotten my side project, Melody Jams, into the App Store. Melody Jams may not have made the creators millionaires, but it’s with no doubt an incredibly successful project.
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