Explain Flappy Bird. The programmer was a nobody, and the code was sloppy, but the game was addictive and free with ads.
I used to work as a programmer analyst at a law firm, it didn't matter if my coworkers code was shit because I fixed it for them. I debugged their spaghetti code and made it work fast without memory leaks. I was often told that I had to do it because nobody else could. Until I got sick and went on short-term disability, they had to hire a contractor at $100/hr to try to do what I did, and even then, they couldn't do just as good a job as me.
So a shit app by a famous person is going to get a lot of attention but very few sticky users and fall off the radar quickly. A great app by a random person will build steam over time and become a sleeper hit.
Explain Flappy Bird. The programmer was a nobody, and the code was sloppy, but the game was addictive and free with ads.
I used to work as a programmer analyst at a law firm, it didn't matter if my coworkers code was shit because I fixed it for them. I debugged their spaghetti code and made it work fast without memory leaks. I was often told that I had to do it because nobody else could. Until I got sick and went on short-term disability, they had to hire a contractor at $100/hr to try to do what I did, and even then, they couldn't do just as good a job as me.