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> After that ordeal I decided to build web apps only. Way to go ! Not everything can be a web app right now, but it's getting closer every year.
With his finally adding support for web push notifications, I think we are pretty much there already. What else is missing that’s needed for most apps?
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So are the web apps having better returns?
I built the Android app in 2013, and my best selling web app in 2021. The web app has just gotten beyond the $10,000 USD monthly recurring revenue metric. About the same really.
I had an app that was making about $10,000 USD a month. It was taken down by Google because apparently I copied some other developer's iOS app. I asked them to tell me the name of the iOS app they believed I copied. They named the iOS version of my Android app. They basically accused me of copying myself because the Android version was under my company's name while the iOS version was under my name. Google unbanned t…
What services do you use to monetise them?
Coming from a very similar background, I have more than a decade of mobile experience (consultant -> CTO), but almost all of my personal projects are web apps. I just can't be bothered dealing with how much control app stores want over my work, plus the amount of bureaucratic bullshit involved.
Plus, the modern web stack is amazing in terms of short iteration cycles (<30s to push and deploy a new project, excellent dev experience with TS).
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This is exactly the reason I would have never considered to build any apps. I have had couple of ideas but the risk is to big that a faceless corporation is going cancel your business without any reason and visibility.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's an existential risk.
Being controlled by software restricts choice, while being wiped out by software eliminates choice altogether.
Google can't exactly fix the DMCA like the dev may want, but its fake appeal process is infuriating. You can appeal the takedown to Google but no human will ever validate that the DMCA notice even makes sense. Filing a counter notice is your only option but it also hands over your personal details to whoever filed the DMCA takedown request for a potential lawsuit. This turns the DMCA mechanism into an excellent doxxi…
Last time I was looking into it, the DMCA required that the subject was taken down _before_ you did the verification of the claim. So the DMCA basically is required to be an automatic process.
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Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's an existential risk.
An existential risk is typically considered any risk that has the potential to eliminate all of humanity or, at the very least, kill large swaths of the global population. Being controlled by software restricts choice, while being wiped out by software eliminates choice altogether.
I had an app that was making about $10,000 USD a month. It was taken down by Google because apparently I copied some other developer's iOS app. I asked them to tell me the name of the iOS app they believed I copied. They named the iOS version of my Android app. They basically accused me of copying myself because the Android version was under my company's name while the iOS version was under my name. Google unbanned t…
This is exactly the reason I would have never considered to build any apps. I have had couple of ideas but the risk is to big that a faceless corporation is going cancel your business without any reason and visibility.
This really only applies to iOS.
I had an app that was making about $10,000 USD a month. It was taken down by Google because apparently I copied some other developer's iOS app. I asked them to tell me the name of the iOS app they believed I copied. They named the iOS version of my Android app. They basically accused me of copying myself because the Android version was under my company's name while the iOS version was under my name. Google unbanned t…
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Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's an existential risk.
An existential risk is typically considered any risk that has the potential to eliminate all of humanity or, at the very least, kill large swaths of the global population. Being controlled by software restricts choice, while being wiped out by software eliminates choice altogether.
So something may be an existential risk to this company or this endeavour. Only a small fraction of usage of existential risk are globally scoped to humanity.
That way, they will take more time to think it trough.