Matt Legend Gemmell Modesty is Lying

Congratulations, and welcome!

Best of luck to you!

Excellent news, Matt! I know you’ve been mulling this over for quite a while and for what it’s worth I feel it’s a damn good decision. I also hope this heralds your return to the mid-day MSN scene though I’d guess time wasting on MSN isn’t so attractive when you’re not getting paid for it!

Best of luck.
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Congrats…. best of luck….

Dude… all the luck in the world!

Good luck!

Good luck sir! One bit of advice to you, don’t fall behind on the tax returns, I know how that feels ;)

Awesome- congrats! And good luck (but I don’t think you’ll need it :).

Matt, it’s always great to see someone else join the fold (and for me, especially when they’re British - there’s not enough of us). I know what a scary move it can be, and wish you all the best.

Congratulations and good luck! I look forward to seeing what you come up with for new Cocoa applications. (The code you’ve contributed back to the community looks great.)

Good luck, Matt! Welcome to the world of freelancing. It sucks, but I wouldn’t live any other way. Just don’t let the Wii take all your time, and you’ll be fine.

My feeling is that if you stick to the safe thing because you’re afraid you might mess up, why bother getting up in the morning? I think following your instincts is the only worthwhile choice.

Download this video and keep it around in case you ever need an extra push.

Also, I made this a featured post on Cocoa Blogs.

I wish you the best success! I hope to speak for my fellow older, married with kids, more stuck in a job programmers when I say we will be rooting for you and living vicariously through you and hope that “we” ;) will be making the next killer app!

Best of luck!

Dave

We wish you the best of luck! Please keep us informed of all the latest happenings :) Cheers.

If your contributed code is anything to go by, your apps should be great.

Don’t price yourself too cheaply, people will always complain it’s too expensive, I read in a blog somewhere. Price it at $40, people will moan it should be $30. $30 and they say $15. $15 and they say it should be free.

Of course, free beta testing to a closed group of hardcore followers is always nice… ;) Best of luck!

Yes. Yes. YES!!

As a fellow Indie… I have to say good on you man. Give me a shout - I’ve potentially got a big personally initiated project coming on-stream; and there’s a specific OSX widget I want to develop that makes accessing the resource much easier.

Aside… I’m sure there’s plenty of common ground we can cover between us in the future.

Good on you man! I’m chuffed to say the least.

Congratulations and good luck Matt. I’m curious to know what you have for us Mac users, so let’s hope that your app goes well and we’ll soon have another Mac indie gem on our hands and computers.
Since Gus Mueller has left a message, I believe this is the only place I can ask him something:
Gus, I cannot reach any of your domains (flyingmeat.com, gusmueller.com) and I have been triyng (wanted to donwload Voodoopad since my HD died on me and I had a very poor backup of my stuff…).
Are you blocking ips form Brazil?
Sorry to bother your blog with this Matt and all the best with your new career.

Yep, best of luck! I’m sure you’ve made the right decision :)

Way to go Matt! When you follow your passion, you can not fail.

Matt, let me be the 20th to wish you good luck on this venture. I’m delighted to see that you’re going to be doing the thing you enjoy most, and I am sure it’ll be a success.

Hmm, good news indeed. Glad to hear it — nobody needs to be pinned down for 40+ hours on a job they don’t necessarily agree with (I refer to http://mattgemmell.com/2006/10/25/applications-20, which makes perfect sense).

I’m looking forward to hearing what this new app is — and I’m not even a Mac user!

Dude, you buy a Wii no more than a few weeks ago and now you quit your job to “work for yourself”, *wink, wink*.

Seriously though, best of luck though man, may I suggest that selling drugs or becoming a loan shark would be a good way of tiding yourself over anytime the work is a bit dry (and if you decide to do this gimme a shout, I’ve been trying to break into the sharking business for some time!).

Best of luck.

“Dude, you buy a Wii no more than a few weeks ago and now you quit your job to “work for yourself”, *wink, wink*.”
Haha :D yeah

Congratulations, Matt.

I’m thinking to going this way myself (but I split between Cocoa and running websites) but haven’t currently made the full jump and work part time till I base some more.

(Probably the fears of uncertainty and the family are the real reasons).

Good luck, anyway.

Georges Kormikiaris: nope, there’s no blocking of ip’s.

Good luck mate!

I’m with Chris on the loan sharking. You could do a dock applet to manage who’s due to be kneecapped next and stuff…

Good luck! If you’re in London, give me a shout and we’ll find a suitable pub to chat about all things Cocoa (and football).

Good luck and congratulations!

Hope you do well. It’ll be really interesting to see what you release.

Hey you just congratulated me a week ago when I went Indie and now I see that you’ve gone Indie too! That’s wonderful!

You will definitely enjoy it, although probably the first few weeks will be a little nerve-wracking and hectic. Just hang in there and enjoy the ride.

I think you’re doing this the right way - save up some money, develop a good budget, line up some contracts to pay the short-term bills and then work on the things that you really really love like writing Cocoa apps that will hopefully develop into your sole income in the long-term. And definitely get the support of your wife / girlfriend / significant other.

Anyways looking forward to your future apps!