One guy developed an iPhone game in six weeks in his bedroom and made a fortune with it. Another one was profitable in 3 weeks. Wow. I knew that 999 other devs just failed, but I couldn’t help myself. Wow.

I was going to do exactly the same thing. I had to. It was so inspirational, that nothing could stop me. I told several such stories to one friend of mine and he said: I’m in. Let’s work together. You know, if we were cutting the trench, it’s not that we would make it twice as fast as doing that alone. It’s about having somebody to knock on your shoulder once you follow the wrong direction.

And what a true was that. Since then we discussed 10 times more than we coded and we made a complete shift from the original idea (luckily, as far as I can say after some time). Now we are solving our own problem, being our first customers. We defined the values and we understood what we want.

I mean, it is definitely possible to start by your own, but especially in the case when you still have a main day job, joining with other guys seems to make sense. The questions is what’s better: to team up with the copy of you or with the opposite of you? What’s more productive? In our case, my friend is the reasonable one, I am always driving the left lane. We can just hope it will work (which seems to be the case so far).