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The weird subtext of this article is that it's an example of a certain kind of person, the type for whom the entire point of making things is to make money, and it's only by accident that it's about doing something useful. Here's a person who reads entrepreneurship books and takes notes on good ways to find business opportunities, makes an app to help people basically cheat because that's where the money is, naturall…
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.”
Oh but I do. I'm doing fine but sometimes relatives need help with medical bills and I would very much like to help them all. And it's quite the sum of money needed there.
Now, everyone, think about how much worse the world would be if this was a lauded or primary way to think about "how to make software." While I appreciate the self-motivation idea generally - this article does nothing for me except make me grateful for free and open source types of folks. People should mostly just not do this.
This article made me pretty sad to be honest. This little app made more money in hours than many free software and open source projects do in years.
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The problem isn't making money, it's making money without regard to how your activity impacts other.
Yes… and upon reading the post, I think that’s a very unfair characterization of the author’s app. This is a highly targeted niche convenience app. The activity is controversial, so is skill-based matchmaking in multiplayer games or CG in anime. That doesn’t mean the author is some heartless knob out to destroy society one watch app at a time!
Possibly you could get away with it at a shady home game where the other players know it is a sign you are a massive fish and will still lose money.
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Well the fact that somebody pays for somebody else to show me ads is useful to all of them, but it certainly isn't useful to me... I'm not saying it's illegitimate in any legal sense. But morally it is not so clear. > doing the entrepreneurial endeavor is just trying to improve their own situation This person said they work as an engineer on growth teams in Silicon Valley, which is hilariously appropriate by the way,…
The ads themselves may or may not be useful but the service that's showing you them is probably useful to you, else why are you using it? The company who paid for the ad gets "use" out of showing you the ad, the service gets money from that, and you get a useful service in exchange. I don't really like ads either but would you really be okay with paying out of pocket to remove every ad you see?
I would happily pay $5 a day to never see another advertisement, assuming it applied to IRL ads too somehow.
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.”
> You probably don’t need the money. Just work on projects that you find fun. Oh but I do. I'm doing fine but sometimes relatives need help with medical bills and I would very much like to help them all. And it's quite the sum of money needed there.
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> You probably don’t need the money. Just work on projects that you find fun. Oh but I do. I'm doing fine but sometimes relatives need help with medical bills and I would very much like to help them all. And it's quite the sum of money needed there.
Maybe then you should think about your country's helathcare system, instead of ideas to make money.
Now, everyone, think about how much worse the world would be if this was a lauded or primary way to think about "how to make software." While I appreciate the self-motivation idea generally - this article does nothing for me except make me grateful for free and open source types of folks. People should mostly just not do this.
It follows a pattern which Apple actively tries to discourage in its iOS apps, but hasn't quite gotten there for its watchOS ones. The pattern being:
1. Find some useful information online
2. Quickly package it into a basic tableview style app
3. Release for free
4. Use IAP to hide the 'useful' part of your app behind an outrageous price-tag
Seriously, $20 is an absolutely ludicrous price for what should really be a piece of paper. I'm hoping this is Bill's last foray into iOS dev, or at least he does some serious soul searching.
"It currently costs $19.99 for a lifetime purchase, but I’m moving to a subscription, so buy now!"
Jesus wept.