<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ed2ea13d-b55f-4abc-83a8-0377a0c4272c/EE612944-F6D7-4DC2-8F7B-824316B85752/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html" href="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">gifterapp.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html"><H1 class="blog-entry-title">How We Built an iPhone App for $4873.92</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html"><STRONG>Design assets</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>$130</STRONG> - The app icon: we knew we’d need a 57x57 pixel icon for the iPhone, but we also wanted a vector version as a general art asset. We posted a $65 assignment to <A rel="external" href="http://pixish.com/">Pixish</A> and ended up with five icons to choose from, one of which was a clear winner. We paid $65 again for refinements to the icon.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>$600</STRONG> - Category icons: We needed 28 custom icons to represent store categories. We looked at royalty-free ecommerce icon sets from <A rel="external" href="http://stockicons.com/">Stockicons.com</A> and others - the problem was, many of our shopping categories weren’t represented, so custom was the way to go.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html"><STRONG>Deployment costs</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>$340/year</STRONG> - <A rel="external" href="http://joyent.com/connector">Joyent Connector</A>: We prepaid for a year of service. Our server is extremely important to the app and Joyent is <EM>solid</EM>.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>$120/year</STRONG> - <A rel="external" href="http://www.dreamhost.com/">DreamHost</A>: We use DreamHost for a bunch of miscellaneous services, and this also included our domain name. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html"><STRONG>Things we didn’t spend money on</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html">Publicity</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gifterapp.com/blog/files/bedd9a6a1425818f49ef0645cc71044c-1.html">Offices</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EE612944-F6D7-4DC2-8F7B-824316B85752/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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