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Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by atum47 » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:17 PM UTC

kebsup wrote: post #59

Good job! I've created gif meme creator and so far I've only received one 5 USD donation. :D https://gifmemes.io

this looks super cool. I'm working (from time to time) in a web flash app, that could be used to this kind of meme creation.

How do you do the tracking? Is it blob tracking or do you use something more sofisticated?

this is how my web flash app is coming along: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3pnEx5_eGm9BbCp2ZTj6...

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by xaedes » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:24 PM UTC

mishafb wrote: post #7

nickthegreek wrote: post #5

I loathe apps that want a subscription for such a trivial concept. Why did you choose this route over ad support or one time payment?

1. You charge what people are willing to pay, not how much your product is worth. 2. When it's a subscription as a customer you have more trust that it will continue working. When it's a one time purchase, who knows how long it will last.

> When it's a subscription as a customer you have more trust that it will continue working. When it's a one time purchase, who knows how long it will last.

Funny, for me this is the total opposite: subscription software may end any time and then you got nothing. One time purchased software you can just continue to use. Well, I guess in the games of rent-seeking, cloud-only, security and updates the viability of this is fading...

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by atum47 » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

atum47 wrote: post #71

kebsup wrote: post #59

Good job! I've created gif meme creator and so far I've only received one 5 USD donation. :D https://gifmemes.io

this looks super cool. I'm working (from time to time) in a web flash app, that could be used to this kind of meme creation. How do you do the tracking? Is it blob tracking or do you use something more sofisticated? this is how my web flash app is coming along: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3pnEx5_eGm9BbCp2ZTj6...

I'm also interested in the GIF export. Right now I'm only exporting videos using canvas record stream, but I'm thinking about using ffmpeg.js to support different formats including animated gifs

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by trolololooo » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

Uberphallus wrote: post #12

lurn_mor wrote: post #9

Whom do you license the Original Content from? Or do you steal it without recompensation?

Parody/satire is generally fair use.

I wonder if that protects the person who makes the parody, rather than the app developer who make $4K a month. Lawyers will not typically go after targets that don't have money for payouts.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by ryandrake » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:27 PM UTC

orangea wrote: post #70

ryandrake wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user, my order of preference is: 1. Non-personalized (non-intrusive) ads 2. One time payment 3. Yearly subscription 4. Ads that mine Bitcoin or otherwise make use of my compute resources 5. Monthly subscription 6. Personalized, intrusive ads I will go out of my way to actively avoid 4-6. For 3 it would hav to be DAMN good software.

I know it is a popular opinion, but I never understood it... why would you rather have non-personalized ads than personalized ads?

Because I know personal ads were made possible by obtaining private information about me, whereas non-personalized ads likely weren’t. I’m not going to interact with either of them so I prefer the ones without privacy cost.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by handrous » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:28 PM UTC

orangea wrote: post #70

ryandrake wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user, my order of preference is: 1. Non-personalized (non-intrusive) ads 2. One time payment 3. Yearly subscription 4. Ads that mine Bitcoin or otherwise make use of my compute resources 5. Monthly subscription 6. Personalized, intrusive ads I will go out of my way to actively avoid 4-6. For 3 it would hav to be DAMN good software.

I know it is a popular opinion, but I never understood it... why would you rather have non-personalized ads than personalized ads?

They're creepy as fuck. Same reason someone might not like being followed around everywhere, even if the person following them just writes down stuff about them but never does anything else. Spying ads are like that, but worse: it's like that person also occasionally runs in front of you to slap an ad-bearing sticker on some surface you're about to encounter, based on stuff they've written down.

Spyvertising is that, but at an industrial scale. If one's creepy and ought to warrant intervention by law enforcement, the other's much, much worse.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by kebsup » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:32 PM UTC

atum47 wrote: post #73

atum47 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this looks super cool. I'm working (from time to time) in a web flash app, that could be used to this kind of meme creation. How do you do the tracking? Is it blob tracking or do you use something more sofisticated? this is how my web flash app is coming along: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3pnEx5_eGm9BbCp2ZTj6...

I'm also interested in the GIF export. Right now I'm only exporting videos using canvas record stream, but I'm thinking about using ffmpeg.js to support different formats including animated gifs

I've tried using ffmpeg but the browser support just isn't very good yet, so I'm using https://github.com/deanm/omggif.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by kebsup » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:35 PM UTC

atum47 wrote: post #71

kebsup wrote: post #59

Good job! I've created gif meme creator and so far I've only received one 5 USD donation. :D https://gifmemes.io

this looks super cool. I'm working (from time to time) in a web flash app, that could be used to this kind of meme creation. How do you do the tracking? Is it blob tracking or do you use something more sofisticated? this is how my web flash app is coming along: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3pnEx5_eGm9BbCp2ZTj6...

The tracking is basically a greedy search of the least sum of square differences of pixels in anchor, so even simpler than that.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by kaybe » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:39 PM UTC

orangea wrote: post #70

ryandrake wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user, my order of preference is: 1. Non-personalized (non-intrusive) ads 2. One time payment 3. Yearly subscription 4. Ads that mine Bitcoin or otherwise make use of my compute resources 5. Monthly subscription 6. Personalized, intrusive ads I will go out of my way to actively avoid 4-6. For 3 it would hav to be DAMN good software.

I know it is a popular opinion, but I never understood it... why would you rather have non-personalized ads than personalized ads?

I am deeply annoyed by ads with bad context fit. When I read about something I don't want my attention to be hijacked to other topics.

E.g. when I look at code I don't want ads for photography equipment, but ads for coding courses or books may be juuust acceptable. It also has the nice benefit of not needing personalization, so the sibling comments' points are also included.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by 58x14 » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:40 PM UTC

par wrote: post #50

imnotreallynew wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re making a healthy revenue, any reason you don’t want to just contract out a few updates? I work full time but I've also run a small contracting business for years, happy to do it at a reasonable cost.

I have considered this, I don't see anywhere near the same purchase conversion on android that I do on iOS. But that could also be due to build quality. Do you have any insight on how successful pay models are on android apps?

This is pretty standard - most Apple ecosystem users tend to be somewhere between 2-3x more measurably valuable, whether App store v Play store revenue [1] or as audience segments in advertising.
You may consider a relationship with another developer where they maintain the Android distro in exchange for some significant percentage of revenue.

1 - https://sensortower.com/blog/app-revenue-and-downloads-1h-20... - source needed, but speaking from experience at scale