Anyway pretty good UI, a few suggestions:
Perhaps you could add a graph of the normal distribution and where you lie on it.
Choosing the location of your workplace is a little confusing at first, it might be more intuitive to make it similar to the Facebook checkin sections, show a list of places nearby.
Just curious if you are making any ad revenue yet? :P
I downloaded it all the second I saw it with the thoughts that I'd just be able to "find something to do with it somehow"
Seems you're alot further along the path of being able to do something with it.
It's literally* a bajillion salary data points that are probably very reliable because the companies are likely taxed on the amount they've entered in that list (or something).
We used many cutting-edge things like node.js, expressjs, mongodb, mongoose, pjax and a lot more in this project. We learned how to put these things together and how to move it to a production box.
Even if no one use it, we learned a lot. And if people really love it, another great PLUS!!
Oops!
AppStore can be a good traction for getting people to use it, which is a chicken/egg problem for this app. I'll try to make it work on the web ASAP.
Thanks!
This seems like an instance of putting the solution before the problem. I imagine you went in knowing you wanted to write an app and came up with one, not that you wanted to help people find out salaries, and then decided the app was the way to go. You are not alone.
It's a weekend project and he hasn't charged anyone for it, cut some slack here.
On my weekend projects, the thinking is usually "What's the most fun I can have building something?" and then I go build it. We don't need to apply deep level strategy to everything, sometimes it's enough to just build fun things. If it ends up being useful, damn, what a great weekend. Either way, your skills and experience by Sunday have grown relative to Friday. Any benefit derived by others is just a bonus.
OP, keep on jammin' on the weekends doing whatever makes you happiest. :D
The beauty of weekend projects is that if you do enough of them that are fun for you (and not freighted with intense strategy) one day, you will have those skills.
I started off with a kinda boring job, mediocre graphics skills and the tiniest grasp of C syntax. Now I get paid to design and build iPhone apps. It's awesome. But it all started with little side projects to sharpen me up. Start practicing, you can do it if you commit.
