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New reality for digital start-ups 
Craig Barber is a chart-topping Apple app developer competing neck-and-neck in some markets with the popular Angry Birds game despite the fact the 35-year-old from Coogee doesn’t even know how to write a single line of code.
Barber is one of a number of entrepreneurs who outsource the computer programming of their technology ideas online. His music app, Car Audio Deck, was funded $US6360 by backers on crowd-funding website appbackr.com and made by a Chinese woman he’s never met who bid $US2500 on outsourcing site Freelancer.com to make his idea come to life.
Shared via The Age. Read the rest of the article here. 

New reality for digital start-ups 

Craig Barber is a chart-topping Apple app developer competing neck-and-neck in some markets with the popular Angry Birds game despite the fact the 35-year-old from Coogee doesn’t even know how to write a single line of code.

Barber is one of a number of entrepreneurs who outsource the computer programming of their technology ideas online. His music app, Car Audio Deck, was funded $US6360 by backers on crowd-funding website appbackr.com and made by a Chinese woman he’s never met who bid $US2500 on outsourcing site Freelancer.com to make his idea come to life.


Shared via The Age. Read the rest of the article here

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