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Few months ago I plan to sell off DocsApp, but I got low ball offer because low revenue. Then I decided to refocus DocsApp and continue to build it.
I wouldn't say DocsApp very successful, but it is getting successful now.
In 2016 I took content creation somewhat seriously and the end result was enough income to sustain living in NY. Not sure if it's worth blogging about yet. Are other developers interested to see how to potentially make software engineer-tier salaries without having to work for another company? (Note: I also started with nothing. No mentors, no following, no existing profile, no paid advertising, etc.). Edit : If you'…
How did you build your following? How did you monetize? Are you an ad publisher or are you selling something? What kind of content did you create?
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I have apps in the Productivity and Utilities categories, all with retail prices of $15 or less. I've no idea about the prospects for the future, but I'm not seeing any significant changes in the market at the moment. However, I am concerned with Apple's current actions (or lack of) regarding the Mac.
Thanks for your reply! Just another question, hope you can reply: are you targeting a specific subset of users (like developers, for instance), or you are implementing productivity and utility apps for the "generic" user?
I, alone, publish an add-on on the Atlassian Marketplace. I have several add-ons for diversification, but 1-2 of them is 99% of my income. Server sales are one-off (but 80% of my income) and Cloud sales are recurrent (better if you hope to hire). Define successful: I 100% live off it ($50k/yr before taxes). Biggest new add-ons are often agencies who can afford to sponsor their development because it's a customer funn…
I've been running https://www.candyjapan.com for about five years. It has (just barely) made enough to support my life in Japan. I'm currently writing a "year in review", will probably post it next week.
I don't think I'll ever quit my day job as it is my own marketing agency in CDMX, but I'm quite pleased with it.
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Most of the businesses in the list are very easy to copy. There are neither rocket science, neither patents to protect them, neither big money to pay lawyers to protect their work. Knowing how well the product sells, you can copy it piece-by-piece by saving a lot of time trying different approaches. Author of original product already did all the hard work guessing what will work the best. You just come, copy and prof…
This is not true. People who copy will mostly do it for money. Finally the passion for the idea trumps the desire to chase money and your product will eventually suck. On the other hand if you think you can make a better product from existing solution, then there is a good chance of you succeeding. You can try copying any one of those of ideas for money and see for yourself.
I think his point is that the ideas being shared are simple enough not to require that much passion to implement, and the goal being not doing something better, but something economically viable (good enough to generate income).
The obvious counter-question would be: why would people use the worse copy instead of just using the superior original? The answer is that it could be the case for a variety of reasons, one of which is cultural relevance, the original filters geographically, is not internationalized well, people do it differently in different regions, etc. After all, you find companies doing similar things in the same market, it only makes sense there's chance of finding other companies doing the same in different markets (given the conditions to implement the idea are already in place: not that easy pulling an Uber/Lyft in a country where mobile broadband and payment haven't matured).
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Why people share their revenues? Every product can be copied. If you know revenue, you know what product you should copy.
China ( add third world country) can / has copied / cloned apps for their local market , happens all the time. ;-)anyone can copy / clone your app at any time that does not mean the same as copying your business. I'm just sayin.
I'm running my invoice reception service ( https://www.boxfactura.com/ ) officially since July 2015. One year after that it became ramen sustainable and since it has grown at an acceptable pace for the last few months. I don't think I'll ever quit my day job as it is my own marketing agency in CDMX, but I'm quite pleased with it.