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IF (And this is a big IF) this program is legit... It's super buggy at best. Don't waste your money.


I had been trying to talk to this guy, and he's not familiar with the interface. He doesn't know what's inside, and he never tried to figure out. I really doubt he would even be interested to use it, so why did he claimed something that isn't proven ?

He's just gone after several trials of the app.

Now, why didn't I make this free ? To be honest I'm not looking to collect users for now.

I had given away 50 promo codes, so some people could try it for free. I really do not force any of you to buy it. If some people did, then they must think that they have $1.99 to spare. Though, I do hope they like to use the app, but, could I force them ? No.

So, I'm really confused why did he think I'm ripping him off ?

Have you ever had a worse experience where people are ripping off your resources, while you don't get what you really supposed to get ?
If you feel you're ripped off by just a $1.99 iPhone app which does what it says, then I think your life is so pleasant, you have never been ripped off at any point in your life.

The App Store ecosystem is the way it's, mostly "NOT" because of Apple's fault. It's people who are just ignorant, and unable to be grateful for what they could get. Those immature users are also unable to gave constructive feedbacks or reviews. Can they help the developer by working on the app? The only thing that they can do is "whine" like "pussies".

For whiners:
Write your damned App Store will you ? Build your own iPhone.
As you had chose to buy the iPhone, you just have to live with it.

In the age where you can get Skype, Facebook, Firefox, Safari, and all of those great software for free. This situation will just kill independent developers like me. Besides, remember that I'm not living in a place where "VC Funding" could be obtained easily. I also found it difficult to find talents in Mac / iPhone development around here.

Software is not a piece of thing where you consumed once, and it's gone afterward. Software is not a food. You can reuse it in the future, you can re-download apps in the App Store for free (be grateful for such system). So I really wonder why FOOD is more expensive than Software ? People are not that whiny with consuming food which may cost them $4 and it's just gone to their stomach.

Now, PromptMe 1.0.1 is In Review, but I feel really less motivated to support this app by reading these kind of reviews. Though, I might change my mind and keep supporting this app.
uld have started this off as a free app, and then raised the cost after the design flaws and interface were perfected. I'm actually mad that I paid for this! UPDATE: I just deleted this app... it is total garbage.


Hello Michigan Traveller,

If you'd like a refund, because $1.99 is so expensive, then just give me your PayPal account. Though, I'm sure you can afford $1.99, since you can buy an iPhone, or else I wonder how do you get through with your living cost there, if you feel $1.99 is too expensive for an app.

I paid a game for $2.99 just to tried it out, I don't need the game, so I delete it and I don't think about it afterward.
It's really not sensible to talk trash, and mocking about it, referring to the app as a garbage. I spent $2.99 and it's my decision, not the developer's mistake, because the developer never forced me to buy it.


"Don't Waste Your Money" by RippedOffCanadian
This app is a fake. It's a whole bunch of canned responses. I was talking to "I would like to write this post as an iPhone Developer. But, in opposed to what most people did, I won't make another complaints at Apple, even though what I did the most are making improvements suggestions to them. Apple had given me more than I can imagine, if they do not exist.

As I had experienced myself as an independent "service provider" or apps developer, I tried to respond to tiny ideas that came up along the way from iPhone users.

I released Prompt with no serious purpose. I use my spare time to come up with unique UI that looks like a terminal (or in the sci-fi world, some geeky fans might correlate this to "The Matrix" movie).

If you're an average user, you might wonder why I don't use the standard UI, as it's commonly demonstrated in most apps. Well, here's the answer:

I could, but I should come up with a different name than "Prompt", and I have to struggle with finding a good brand (that's unique) and good graphics design that would make this app stand out from the rest. Prompt or PromptMe is using simple graphics, and I don't need to hire or pay professional graphic designers to do the logo, and other graphics contained within.

If you don't know yet, I'm not backed by VC funding or full time employment, or regular income (though, I know lots of people around my area are "wasting time" with their so-called full time employment). I have to keep my budget thin. I have to put up with demanding schedules of freelance projects, etc. This are done just to please "all of you", so you could enjoy iPhone apps, and for those who are hiring me for projects, so you could gain money or help with my work.

Why am I releasing PromptMe, where I could spend my time elsewhere ? Some people want chat functionality with "Prompt", then I tried to make it, maybe the existing users would want to use it.

But, after a while since 21st of August (the released date), here's what I get from Moopf App Store Reviews, you can also enter 322663058 as an application ID:


"Soooooo Not Worth $1.99!" by West Michigan Traveller
I can't believe that I got suckered out of $1.99 for this! The flashing green text is enough to cause an epileptic fit, and the instructions for use are weak at best. I played with this app for over an hour after downloading it, and was never able to carry on an actual "conversation" with anyone. Based on the random comments flashing on the screen from other users, I was not alone in my experience. The concept was somewhat intriguing, which is what lured me in, but the design, execution and explanation are very mediocre and seem incomplete to me. I wish I had stayed away from this one, and can only recommend that others do too. An app that costs $1.99 needs to OVERDELIVER, and this one did not even live up to my lowest expectations. To the developer: You should have started this off as a free app, and then raised the cost after the design flaws and interface were perfected. I'm actually mad that I paid for this! UPDATE: I just deleted this app... it is total garbage.


Hello Michigan Traveller,

If you'd like a refund, because $1.99 is so expensive, then just give me your PayPal account. Though, I'm sure you can afford $1.99, since you can buy an iPhone, or else I wonder how do you get through with your living cost there, if you feel $1.99 is too expensive for an app.

I paid a game for $2.99 just to tried it out, I don't need the game, so I delete it and I don't think about it afterward.
It's really not sensible to talk trash, and mocking about it, referring to the app as a garbage. I spent $2.99 and it's my decision, not the developer's mistake, because the developer never forced me to buy it.


"Don't Waste Your Money" by RippedOffCanadian
This app is a fake. It's a whole bunch of canned responses. I was talking to " Unlike most of those talented software engineers that are living and breathing through their own startups, or independent projects, most of the average software developers/engineers that I had known are spending most of their time looking for "employer" or "somebody" to gave them a fixed salary every month, to keep them safe, and also to give them "something" to answer to their relatives or friends about "where do you work? what is your job?"

While actually, they're subconsciously looking for their purpose or their self-identity.

I was once that kind of engineer, though maybe I'm still that kind of engineer ? Not really sure, but the point is, the more I'm involved in my field, the more focused I'm to only dedicate my time into those people or employer that has the similar mindset as I am.

This, reminded me of some people that had given me advice to "go out of focus", which is another word for pursuing another path in software engineering. If it's only meant to be as a "safety mechanism", then I will blatantly say no :-). Changing my focus will decrease my quality, and that's a lot worse than not having a full-time job. I also make this decision, because I want to look beyond what's in front of me.

Aside from all of those activities that are on the "bottom line" needs to be done to fund my life, and to kept me survived, I found that I should not spend too much time on the "searching" process. Because I will waste lots of time on convincing that I'm useful for them, that I deserve some "monetary" value from them, unless if they told me so :-).

So, I should "do" something, "work" on something, and I shouldn't get stuck on looking for ideas that will have a commercial potential. Instead, things will be more simple and executable, if I just work on what I need and what I tend to think about.

I see lots of useful software or iPhone apps (if we're talking about my recent focus on iPhone) that could only be gained by paying some price.

Well, instead of looking for ways to get them for free (like all of those crackers had done), why not try to write one myself? No matter how "dull" it will look, or how "lame" it's compared to the available software out there, I will spend a bit of my time to work on it, improve it, and if I decide it's useful to other people, I could either commercialize it or open-sourced it (if it does in the good form to be open-sourced).

Eventually, if my work does proved to be good, I don't really need lots of searching process to convince someone, or some group of people that I'm good. Because, I will feel satisfied with my own property, my own software, that's usable for other people.

Though, this is not an easy thing to do. I've been procrastinating a lot, and unable to focus and follow through my ideas as I expect it should be in the beginning, self-sustainability should be our mindset as a software engineer.

The point is, if you keep on wondering on "when will I get my salary raise?", then you will never get it.
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Even though, it's okay to state that you're "working for a company" or even better "founded a company".
ns for their employees. But by being a software engineer requires more than just your outstanding math skills, and otherwise by being an experienced software engineer is not enough without refining your math skills.

I had observed some people and some of my peers who are good at math which is the basic skills in Computer Science, but they're either "not motivated" or just not good at software engineering. Although, in most cases "motivation" is the key.

Why ? Here are some of the reasons:

1. Software engineering requires patience, good knowledge and experience in language constructs and meanings.
Lots of math geniuses are good at solving patterns in numbers or logics, but they may not be good at language.

2. Software engineering requires tinkering, hacking, lots of reading and understanding of other people's code, APIs, and how to utilize the existing hardware with the software provided for it.
A math genius may be very good at solving math equations, and understood a lot about mathematical theories, symbols and its relations. But, without engineering aptitude, it's just not enough to use only your math skills in software engineering.

3. Software engineering is pretty much useless if you can't produce something (a code or an application) that could be seen or used by other people.
To determine that you're a good mathematician, it's enough for you to just roll out a solution, theorem, or conclusion to a problem, and show the mathematical steps in solving the problem.

4. Source code of a software should be learnable and understandable by more people than a mathematical theorem is.
To understand math, you need to spend quite amount of time to learn math from the basic to advanced topics. While to learn software engineering, you can just use basic math and logic, and you can improve your math skills based on your requirements. Lots of software engineers are talented enough to make their work understandable by lots of people (who at least is intelligent). Meanwhile there are still mathematicians, who only thinks that they only need to make their work understandable only by mathematicians like themselves.

5. A Software product needs to think about human factors or the exact technical term is "user interface".
Most mathematicians need to only think about whether their work is mathematically proven and it's only need to be reviewed by peer mathematicians.

Now, I'm not just saying that mathematicians are imperfect, but software engineers are also imperfect, if you don't care about math.

Most of the amazing improvements in AI and computer graphics software, and many other things are because of math.

As it's by holding the status of "IT staff" or whatever the term it's, it's not really enough to do software engineering. This is important, because I'm quite worried there are more people majoring in CS who care more about getting certifications from commercial companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, SAP or whatever it's, instead of becoming a software engineer.

Don't start another pack of "branded" techies. If you want to brand yourself in technology such as OpenGL, DirectX, Python, Ruby, C, Cocoa, C#, .NET, Java, Qt, TCP/IP or knowledge such as Statistics, Probability, Game Theory, Stochastic, Combinatorics, Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic, etc. then that is better, but please don't just brand yourself with a company name prefix.

But, I must say that you don't need to be a software engineer if you're majoring in CS (you can be an artist if you like). Again, please don't brand yourself with a co I was just having the idea to write about this. Though, I have been thinking about it for a long time.

As the title had clearly said, this is a situation that I had observed in the Software Engineering industry.

Even though we all know that Google are looking for expert mathematicians for their employees. But by being a software engineer requires more than just your outstanding math skills, and otherwise by being an experienced software engineer is not enough without refining your math skills.

I had observed some people and some of my peers who are good at math which is the basic skills in Computer Science, but they're either "not motivated" or just not good at software engineering. Although, in most cases "motivation" is the key.

Why ? Here are some of the reasons:

1. Software engineering requires patience, good knowledge and experience in language constructs and meanings.
Lots of math geniuses are good at solving patterns in numbers or logics, but they may not be good at language.

2. Software engineering requires tinkering, hacking, lots of reading and understanding of other people's code, APIs, and how to utilize the existing hardware with the software provided for it.
A math genius may be very good at solving math equations, and understood a lot about mathematical theories, symbols and its relations. But, without engineering aptitude, it's just not enough to use only your math skills in software engineering.

3. Software engineering is pretty much useless if you can't produce something (a code or an application) that could be seen or used by other people.
To determine that you're a good mathematician, it's enough for you to just roll out a solution, theorem, or conclusion to a problem, and show the mathematical steps in solving the problem.

4. Source code of a software should be learnable and understandable by more people than a mathematical theorem is.
To understand math, you need to spend quite amount of time to learn math from the basic to advanced topics. While to learn software engineering, you can just use basic math and logic, and you can improve your math skills based on your requirements. Lots of software engineers are talented enough to make their work understandable by lots of people (who at least is intelligent). Meanwhile there are still mathematicians, who only thinks that they only need to make their work understandable only by mathematicians like themselves.

5. A Software product needs to think about human factors or the exact technical term is "user interface".
Most mathematicians need to only think about whether their work is mathematically proven and it's only need to be reviewed by peer mathematicians.

Now, I'm not just saying that mathematicians are imperfect, but software engineers are also imperfect, if you don't care about math.

Most of the amazing improvements in AI and computer graphics software, and many other things are because of math.

As it's by holding the status of "IT staff" or whatever the term it's, it's not really enough to do software engineering. This is important, because I'm quite worried there are more people majoring in CS who care more about getting certifications from commercial companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, SAP or whatever it's, instead of becoming a software engineer.

Don't start another pack of "branded" techies. If you want to brand yourself in technology such as OpenGL, DirectX, Python, Ruby, C, Cocoa, C#, .NET, Java, Qt, TCP/IP or knowledge such as Statistics, Probability, Game Theory, Stochastic, Combinatorics, Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic, etc. then that is better, but please don't just brand yourself with a company name prefix.

But, I must say that you don't need to be a software engineer if you're majoring in CS (you can be an artist if you like). Again, please don't brand yourself with a co  Just for fun, I read a blog titled "Only the Developed World Lacks Women in Computing".

In this blog I could see how people's perception is more sensitive to what's there around them compared to those in the other side are seeing, so this is my comment on that post:


I can't agree completely on your observations.

I graduated from the most reputable technical school in Indonesia.

I've been a software developer "officially" for almost 3 years in the developing country, Indonesia. I had experienced software development in Singapore as well for about 6 months.

Very few females chose IT or especially software engineering (this is not just IT) as a career, especially in the developing world. To be honest, they chose that because they could't be socially active or attractive as other females. That's also why there are more males in this area, coupled with the fact that most males are better at rationality, logic and math.

Most females here are dreaming about the lucrative and glamour life that they could have if they chose another field, like entertainment, arts, or another socially active careers. IT or software engineering in the developing world will force you to be a "technology slave" to those who had more monies.

Creativity is not that encouraged, we have to dedicate ourselves to project deadlines to meet the company's goal. Because money is always the issue, and people are not willing to work hard if the money incentives are not good enough, which is the case with most computer science related work.

We don't have the luxury of Google, Facebook, Apple, or other creative tech companies in the US to encourage more females in this area. I had seen lots of female engineers in the "developed" world, and they are good too.

India is different, because they're more active in IT, it's one of their biggest source of income. Malaysians with that point of view probably only existed in academic world.

In my observations in Indonesia, or maybe Singapore, and Malaysia too, most female undergrads quit their CS career after few years of grunt's work or even right after their graduation to pursue a more rewarding career which allows them to be flexible and creative.


I have a contrasted point of view by living in this side of the world, I could also show several contrasting opinions as well in other areas, but that's it for now.
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Some of them are just sending random message without following through a conversation. They don't seem to respond to replies that are made by me. A few are engaged in a conversation for a while, but they're not really active. The only people who're using this app in a pattern that I expect to be are the testers of this app.

This is in contrast to few similar apps out there in the store, which has quite amount of users. They're quite popular, and it doesn't require lots of time for the users to get familiar with the usage pattern and be involved in the conversation with other users of the app.

My guess is if I make this app free, the amount of users will increase significantly, and I assume more junks or stupid messages will flood the conversation, as it's the case with Prompt. Though, Prompt doesn't have a conversation element, it's just an overnight idea, that I worked on around a week. But, I was referring to the twitter updates from it, which is just a hint of the amount of users trying out the app.

Is this a sign that I should just make another twitter client app or regular multi-IM app (with the support of Google Talk, Yahoo, etc.) ?
more rewarding career which allows them to be flexible and creative.</blockquote><br /><br />I have a contrasted point of view by living in this side of the world, I could also show several contrasting opinions as well in other areas, but that's it for now.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7064343413833673987-3407218808651443992?l=jessearm.blogspot.com'/></div>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JesseBlog/~3/7_s7eSVJO2w/its-funny-how-people-could-see-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jesse)0