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Together, his apps have netted around $7000 in just over four months – despite being free to download (at least in their basic form). “I quite like Reddit myself, so it made sense to build as my first project.” “Anything that’s posted is instantly available to developers,” he explains. He chose Reddit for his foray into the public sphere because of the availability of its content. “It all snowballed from, ‘I wonder if this is possible?’” he says. He started messing around with iPhone apps before he owned an Apple Watch. “I’ve had people reaching out on twitter to say thanks.”īishop is shrewd and naturally curious. “It was met with a lot of support from the blind community,” Bishop says. He sent out a new version to four vision-impaired users for testing before releasing the update. “You can’t see those labels, but they’re there if you’re using text-to-speech.” With a little research he discovered he could recode and relabel the buttons to make them more user-friendly. For example, “ had an icon for retweet, but Voiceover just said ‘button’ or ‘image’,” Bishop explains. “I told him as soon as school holidays started, I’d give it a crack.”Īpple’s text-to-voice software, Voiceover, comes preloaded on its watch, but is not very intuitive. “I hadn’t event considered that,” Bishop admits. The day after Chirp was released, Bishop was tweeted by someone asking if it could be updated to include vision-impaired users. Apple is notoriously protective of its frameworks and certain functions, so independent developers have to pull together often-disparate functions into a cohesive product. “Watch apps are built on workarounds,” says Bishop. “There’s a very friendly community around, and that really helps out,” he says. He also hits up other developers directly, asking how they achieved this or that. He says his process involves “A lot of Googling” – hours scouring the internet for forums and tutorials, laying down each stepping stone towards his end goal. Essentially, you’re learning a new language, and it gets easier as you become more familiar.”īishop took basic programming in school but is self-taught when it comes to making apps. “Programming is like a way of thinking,” Bishop says. Nano for Reddit was five months in development, but Bishop built and released Chirp over the winter break. The turnaround represents a mountain of a learning curve.
“I thought, ‘I’ve got school, I’ve got this other app up’ … But I started making it anyway and 11 days later, it was finished.” “People started asking me to make a Twitter app,” Bishop tells Broadsheet.