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That's great, well done, but without details it doesn't add much to the conversation. What are the apps? How did you market them? How long did it take to start seeing results? etc.
Based on comment history https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cuff-video-chat-make-friends/i... making $2000/month profit "No marketing involved, all organic traffic"
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I've gone in the opposite direction. my latest side project is costing me money. but it gives me a dev superpower, so I don't mind. this is a blatant plug, sorry, but here's my newfound superpower: I built forkfreshness.com so that, whenever I find an abandoned repo that would otherwise be perfect for whatever I'm working on, I can find out exactly what downstream forks exist, who's keeping those forks alive, and how…
forkfreshness seems like a really nice idea. I have a repo[0] where I would like to check how active any of the forks are, just to see what they have done with the project, and/or speak with them about contributing upstream. I noticed that just adjusting the URL[1] did not work, however since running this website is costing your money, I don't feel comfortable asking you to add it. Is there any chance you would feel…
but the good news is that I could maybe change its recency rules, and the other good news is that it costs me money whether people use it or not, and I want people to use it, so please feel absolutely free. it's intended as a kind of public service.
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forkfreshness seems like a really nice idea. I have a repo[0] where I would like to check how active any of the forks are, just to see what they have done with the project, and/or speak with them about contributing upstream. I noticed that just adjusting the URL[1] did not work, however since running this website is costing your money, I don't feel comfortable asking you to add it. Is there any chance you would feel…
Did you try > Just tweet the GitHub URL to @ForkFreshness on Twitter. as instructed on the front page? It seems like he's inviting people to use it.
Main lesson that seems to not have been learned yet, since it's not mentioned at the end: If you want to make money (any money at all), stop focusing on consumer products, build a small B2B product instead.
And build it full time, not as a hobby. And build one that no one else is selling already.
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forkfreshness seems like a really nice idea. I have a repo[0] where I would like to check how active any of the forks are, just to see what they have done with the project, and/or speak with them about contributing upstream. I noticed that just adjusting the URL[1] did not work, however since running this website is costing your money, I don't feel comfortable asking you to add it. Is there any chance you would feel…
Did you try > Just tweet the GitHub URL to @ForkFreshness on Twitter. as instructed on the front page? It seems like he's inviting people to use it.
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The only problem is that pretty much anything I can do has been done a zillion times by others.
That might appear to be the case, but probably isn’t. There’s often not anything harder to implement a CRUD app that solves a novel problem than implementing a CRUD app that solves the same problem as 100 other people are hawking.
Minimal metronome and minimal time tracker are close to useless, because the market is so saturated, and there are tons of free options. You need to start with validating your idea instead of wasting days/months on coding.
He needs to make ten times as many applications/solutions at least in the same time frame. His ratio comes to less than one project a year and across different markets. In fact he doesn't even release but two of the projects mentioned. The product startup world moves a lot faster than that. "How I failed 5 side projects in 6 years"
It needs to become a habit so that he can release at greater velocity. Regulary thinking about new ideas and the writing code 1-2 hours everyday is ideal.
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Reminds me of "Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it." by Joel Spolsky. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/21/good-software-take...
This has been my experience. I'm working on an app that will be released in the next few months (we don't have a definite ship date, yet). It's based on two servers that I wrote. One, I wrote eleven or twelve years ago, and has become a world standard; but only in the last three years. Since it's a specialized demographic, the numbers are quite small, for "world standard." The other server is one that I wrote, about…
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(Plus, I don't think the projects were duds. They were instead simply buds - still too immature. Exactly how you execute an idea is often far more important than the actual idea. This isn't some catchy phrase, its how people take failing businesses and rework them to massive profits.
I agree that more iteration was required. Focusing on a particular set of real customers is also a useful activity. Real people have real needs. Developers often have no clue what people want because people in general have problems and your shiny thing is weird and wonderful and they don't (yet) understand it.
eg That time tracker... omg. Plenty of people use worse. Plenty are better. Its minimal, but a start. If this had been pushed in front of a large enough group of real people and left to grow with multiple iterations from feedback it could have ended up in all sorts of useful directions.