I created and sold Stickonspy (http://stickonspy.com) just after mid last year. The initial month I launched it did pretty well as the NSA news was still a pretty big deal. All in all it's made me < £1k but it's been great fun to build and ship a product from scratch. I've shipped to around 12 countries too which is cool. I also spent no money on marketing.
I'd say my time - which was evenings after work - investment was around 3-4 days initially and then fulfilling orders is simply writing a customers address and posting the stickers - which if the demand was bigger I'd probably outsource.
It's been great. I've learnt a shit tonne & the conversations it started has given me an idea for a similar product which I'll be focusing on very soon!
I've had a stammer all my life, it's one the most frustrating things ever. Here's a few things I'd do/did;
- Make a portfolio of the dev work you've done.
- When you start speaking with an employer, mention your stammer before the interview so they know what to expect. I think this will also help you mentally prepare as well, there will be 'no' surprises.
- Stay calm & good luck!
I agree those colours don't work the best together, but I chose them to demonstrate the parts of the design that are easily updatable. I think the worst crime I committed was having the orange links on the green background, but again, that was to keep it as simple as possible.
Nice work, this is pretty cool! I've been working on a similar approach but using Github (mainly because I host my blog there using Jekyll). I'll try and get it released tonight :)
The site is awesome. The UX is spot on! I think people have seen the price tag and expected something unimaginable. Not quite sure why they chose to use an Adobe application for the cms side of things.
My main win was cold-emailing tech blogs. I got featured on BoingBoing - http://boingboing.net/2013/08/12/stickonspy-sticker-reminder... - through emailing and also managed to sell directly to Cory ;).