My intimidation doesn't come from the difficulty of Objective-C but 1) The time it takes to build iOS apps using Objective-C and 2) verboseness. I explained above that I think it would take twice as long to build the same app in Objective-C and that thought intimidates me as for most of us the apps we're building are experiments. We don't know if it will catch on or not. And I would like to see results as quickly as possible, especially in a bootstrapped project like this.
Before Jukely, I was the product development manager for several iOS applications. Comparing my experience of building Jukely in RubyMotion to those other iOS apps my developers built using Objective-C, I can say that an application in RubyMotion can be built probably twice as fast. This may sound controversial, and is my personal opinion but that's what I believe. It took me around 2 1/2 months to build the iOS portion of Jukely and my estimation would be that it would take 4-5 months to build it in Objective-C.
Re: your second paragraph, when you think about it, the FB mission of keeping you connected to your friends doesn't work because your distant friends remain distant and only closer friends show up in your feed. In my personal feed I keep seeing updates from the same 20 people over and over. I have no clue what the other 450 are up to unless I go to their pages.
If all I wanted from FB was a relationship with my closer friends, then Path is much nicer.
I have experienced the same with our page. Likes from parts of the world we don't engage in and this seems sketchy. Knowing that there are schemes exist to purchase likes for very cheap from certain parts of the world, one can't help but wonder if there is such a thing going on with these promoted posts. You wouldn't think so but our engagement is at an all time low now, even the promoted posts attract few likes but no comments or spam comments now.
Facebook says you should get 15% organic views if you don't promote a post. We have around 10,000 likes on our page and without promoting a post it gets around 125-150 views now. You do the math.
I stand with Mark Cuban and George Takei on this. Facebook should stop this craziness and just show everybody the full feed instead of trying to adjust it in all weird ways.
This one hits home with me. I always looked up to Gordon Ramsay, read all of his books and watched every single episode of his TV shows.
I left the world of software for a year and half to chase after a restaurant dream and spent tons and tons of money on legal, design, consulting, architects etc. just to have the economy crash by the end of last summer in the middle of additional capital raising.
Put things on hold and came back to where I really belong; the world of software. Now I'm working on exciting startup projects. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if I actually managed to open the place.
There is a reason for everything. Maybe this was meant to be...
I really like the user interface and simplicity. You're right, there are sites out there with too many unnecessary features. I liked your approach to only keep what's absolutely needed and present those features in a lovely way. The creative and clean placement of Edit links on the event page especially captured my attention.