
Since FastCompany.com last spoke with 16-year-old T.J. Pluhacek, who'd developed an app for the iPad, his app sales, have "gone up 300%," he says. His local Portland-area news stations did news reports on him and his NoteLook, too. What also became apparent along the way is that T.J.'s got a posse, an elite band of homework-acing mathletically inclined young developers whose focus and determination makes them shining examples of Generation i.
With the next-gen iPhone all over the Web today, we thought we'd get personal with these under-18, next-gen iPhone app developers and wannabe tech moguls. We suspect there are more of them cropping up each day in their parents basements and school computer labs everywhere. We talked four more standouts. One of them, Joe, hasn't personally developed an app, but he's one of the forces behind another project that three of them are working on. Read on, and be amazed, and maybe feel a bit lazy by comparison.