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Thanks for sharing! Have you considered selling your Apps outside the AppStore? Would it be worth it?
Lunar, my best selling app, is outside the App Store. But I had to do 2 to 4 months more work to replicate what App Store is doing. See my more detailed comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33621601
I built this www.anxispace.com .. and I literally cannot do marketing to save my life!
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It’s a fun niche. I’m making tens of dollars a month on my first app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiowrangler/id1565701763?mt=... :)
I also made tens of dollars a month with https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd for the first few months ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The good thing is that usually you just keep growing from this. Now it’s making $1k per month, mostly because of sharing it with the world and implementing recurrent annoyances shared by users. It’s important to have a way for users to contact you. I love Formspark.io for that, just slap a contact form on the app…
hmm Not good enough to teach? You are thinking about this wrong! Passion about something and communicating that to others is the invite for them to take that journey to mastery. You just need the garyVee social media money tricks on top to make it fundable. I am in the process of re-vamping that stuff to do exactly that and I am probably older than you at db of 1965...follow me to see it happen https://fredgrott.medi…
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How do you find the non-technical cofounders to do this?
I seriously hope you are not kidding with me. Back-of-envelop, napkin-calculation, and my 8-ball wizardy data would say that there are 9 non-technical founders looking for every capable technical founder. Anyway, there are lots of communities, cohort-based, hybrid-style, and what-not options these days to find someone or a few. You can start with https://www.startupschool.org and/or https://www.beondeck.com
I suspect the ratio of capable non-technical and technical founders is nearer 0.1-0.5:1
any thoughts on how to identify the unicorns?
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> Most web related indie dev has been killed by open source. You throw this out there like some fact. Meanwhile, the lot of us make money on web dev that is built upon open source. The same we have been doing for a long time now.
Yup. If you want to do interesting work / really write software then you have to give it away for free. If you want to get paid you have to spend your days cobbling together open source to accomplish totally trivial functionality that some dimwit has “invented”. That’s the situation we’ve gotten ourselves into, unfortunately.
How privileged are you when you are complaining about not being able to have fun 100% of paid time, like no generation before us ever had.
Consider teaching on your own blog - it's not immediate money, but if you're patient, you'll start to get folks asking if you're available for consulting, or if you've considered writing a book on what you write about. Source: I wrote a book about a single function in React, it did okay.
Writing books just don’t make enough money. It makes you look like cool for having published a book, and that’s about it.
Building and selling macOS apps is a pretty good niche to be in right now. I escaped my stressful corporate job 1 year ago and I’ve been living comfortably since then from app revenue only. I’m making between $3.5k and $9k per month with https://lunar.fyi/ and the smaller apps I create at https://lowtechguys.com/ It’s not much for some parts of the world. But I’m well enough from this that I even took the time to bui…
This is cool. I hope you make a bunch of extra sales from your (correctly) upvoted comment here :-)
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I also made tens of dollars a month with https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd for the first few months ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The good thing is that usually you just keep growing from this. Now it’s making $1k per month, mostly because of sharing it with the world and implementing recurrent annoyances shared by users. It’s important to have a way for users to contact you. I love Formspark.io for that, just slap a contact form on the app…
Thanks for following up. One q: I suck at building landing pages. Do you have any tips here? I have some ok-ish copy already distinct from the App Store page, but I hate finagling HTML.
learn sales, it fixes everything.
OP, sales is a skill that has the highest ROI of all. life is sales, it's how you pitch yourself to a company or a client, how you negotiate for a larger salary, how you identify the pain points of your clients, how you screen if they're the right fit for you, how you prioritize if you're focusing on the right stuff. even dating the right person is sales, also how you convince your kid to beush his/her teeth every af…