Ask HN: what is the highest reward to effort ratio you've ever experienced?

I developed an educational app in one day. Apple featured it right around Christmas. Best Christmas present ever. I made enough money in that one month to pay off all of my credit cards and student loans. I even paid cash for a late-model car that month. Part of that money also helped my company lease a kick ass office. We went from subleasing a dark attic above a video production studio to leasing our own class A office.

Re: Ask HN: what is the highest reward to effort ratio you've ever experienced?

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Post by polyfractal » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 12:02 PM UTC

I built a side project on a weekend and made $700 from revenue / selling the site. It also helped land me a job. Not too shabby.

Re: Ask HN: what is the highest reward to effort ratio you've ever experienced?

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Post by no_news_is » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 7:13 PM UTC

arbor wrote: post #8

I developed an educational app in one day. Apple featured it right around Christmas. Best Christmas present ever. I made enough money in that one month to pay off all of my credit cards and student loans. I even paid cash for a late-model car that month. Part of that money also helped my company lease a kick ass office. We went from subleasing a dark attic above a video production studio to leasing our own class A of…

Wow, what was the app?