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The simplest app that makes money

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Re: The simplest app that makes money

#4
An excellent example of the hacker-ethos failing.

A decade ago, you could create a reasonable app in a month and make money. Now, the low-hanging fruit is gone.

This app would get you kicked out of any poker-game I have ever been to, is over-priced ($20 for a glorified piece of paper), was marketed in a way that got the creator banned from Reddit, and made almost no money.

That type of outcome might not be the best that is left in the field of "ideas that an app developer can do in one month" today, but it probably will be soon.

Re: The simplest app that makes money

#7
I have a bookmark to a personal Google Doc called “SaaS Business Ideas”, for whenever I think of a project that I think I can monetize.

The Google Doc is actually view-only and says “Stop ideating about projects to make money! You probably don’t need the money. Just work on projects that you find fun.”

Re: The simplest app that makes money

#10

I noticed the goal had nothing to do with providing value, or customers being satisfied, or even about the product being "good".

It looks like a pretty basic demo/full setup where a good chunk works for free and you have to satisfy the customer with the functionality to get money.
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