Leaving Apple and Google: My Eelo Odyssey. Bootstrap on Kickstarter(hackernoon.com)
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Leaving Apple and Google: My Eelo Odyssey. Bootstrap on Kickstarter
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Dude - don't bother! And don't get me wrong, I would love to see you succeed and prove me wrong - but the chances of success in this are like the proverbial "ice cube's chances in hell" - there's so many obstacles to success - regroup and solve a solvable problem...
1) yes there are a few privacy zealots, and they may care, but consumers do not - they will talk a mean streak about the importance of privacy but give it up in a second for any bit of freebie or customization (I know having worked on the PrivacyFix app - look it up)
2) The ecosystems are against you. No developer wants to write to and support their app on some obscure platform with a handful of users. Hackers may target your users just as a lark and to make press for hacking your unhardened app eco-system
3) Data storage is not free, and won't be. Users will upload troves of garbage photos and data and expect you to maintain it in perpetuity - that will not be free
4) Read up on asian hardware relationships - even if you get a few million dollars and spend all of it on a handset OEM - you'll need to be there on the ground every step of the production run and you'll probably get nothing but the crap that no reputable brand would take
5) and on security; why do you think that your team will be able to build and maintain a secure device and infrastructure? HomeDepot, Target, Experian, the NSA - have all had leaks and breaches - why would someone trust three guys working remote to do better at this than a meg corporation or the government?
* that's just the tip of the iceberg; not trying to be harsh - just don't want to see you waste a lot of time and crowd-sourced money on something with so little prospects of success