My New Iphone App: Cow Fart CO2

After a long and arduous journey, my Iphone application finally made it to the Apple Itunes store. Click here to open up ITunes: http://tinyurl.com/bdd2sv

The application is called Cow Fart CO2. It measures your carbon footprint in terms of cow farts. Nice.

If you are thinking about publishing an app, here are the steps you will have to take.

0. Own a Mac. Own an Iphone.
1. Get the Iphone SDK.
2. Plan out what you want to do
3. Read the forums, read the tutorials, and don't give up on Objective-C.
4. Make sure everything works on the Iphone Simulator
5. Think about whether you want your app to be sold within a company (LLC is best), or if you want to have your personal name attached.
6. Apply to the developer program.
6. Pay $99.00
7. Pay $300.00 if you file for an LLC
8. Wait for 1-2 months
9. Get an e-mail from Apple; fax legal documents.
10. Wait for 2 weeks
11. Obtain a developer license
12. Rip out your hair as you try to figure out how Apple's black box code-signing ritual works.
13. Remember not to throw your Iphone at the wall when your code-signing works after 5 hours of tweaking and fiddling and then realize that your binary won't compile for whatever reason.
14. Read the forums and thank those who help you figure it out.
15. Submit your application to the I-Tunes store.
16. Wait for 2 weeks.
17. Get rejected, resubmit again for making a stupid error.
18. Get the glorious e-mail from apple saying your app has now been listed!!!
19. Make bank...or not.