“I’m not an iPhone millionaire, but I’m doing quite well, all things considered. App Cubby has been a TON of work and caused quite a few sleepless nights, but these last 18 months have been some of the more fulfilling times in my life..”

David at App Cubby taught himself how to program because he wanted to make iPhone apps (wanna-be entrepreneurs take note). Now he’s making a living doing it. Pretty cool.

-Derek Silvers

oops.

“I think venture capital money is not only unneeded for most Web startups, but is actually harmful, because it removes you from that all-important concern of turning a profit.”

-David Heinemeier Hansson

If you have to put arrows and explanations in your interface because people keep doing it “wrong”; it’s probably not intuitive.

From FreshBooks. (Love the free account, but the UI needs some spring cleaning.)

I was reading the Wikipedia article on Thomas Kinkade a couple days ago and it had an excerpt from a curator talking about the possibility that Kinkade’s self-promotion is actually his conceptual performance art.

Kinkade’s genius is in his capacity to identify and fulfill the needs and desires of his target audience — he cites his mother as a key influence and archetypal audience — and to couple this with savvy marketing… If Kinkade’s art is principally about ideas, and I think it is, it could be suggested that he is a Conceptual artist. All he would have to do to solidify this position would be to make an announcement that the beliefs he has expounded are just Duchampian posturing to achieve his successes. But this will never happen. Kinkade earnestly believes in his faith in God and his personal agenda as an artist.

If it is true, then I would have to say that daytona500print.com would be his Mona Lisa.

(Be sure to watch the video of Thom’s thoughts behind NASCAR® THUNDER, The 50th Running of the DAYTONA 500® on daytona500print.com)

i.e. I’m posting this from my iPhone in Key Pizza.

“I don’t make movies to make money—I make money to make movies.”

-Walt Disney

Brad Bird is my hero.

I was talking about the layout with Ryan and little and he was very good in helping me see the layout as a first-time user would.

He convinced me that currently it looks very complicated, when it really isn’t.

So I’ve decided to remove the Artist and Test search results from the main search page. We agreed that the majority of the people visiting the site will be searching for art and those other elements just make it confusing.