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Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)

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Re: Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)

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Did you pay your taxes already ? I wonder what would be your after-tax income ? Again, $2.5k is still very low even for Eastern Europe. From my own experience, I strongly recommend NOT to quit your day job. Try to run it at least for a year, then you will make a way better decision.

After-tax would be around $2k (the effective tax rate for the self employed is 19%). You can live very comfortably on this in Poland.

Re: Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

it seems to work out with advertising, as it is for more and more app developers because you just get so much more installs without a pricetag on it. Most devs dont have any marketing muscle, so free apps with advertising often is a good approach.

Do you do any marketing/promotion at all, or just stick your Apps up on the Market?

You do the best you can with the resources you have to promote your app, even if its free, since that cant hurt. Even with free apps you still need a good app and luck, its not that any free app will generate tons of ad revenue.

Re: Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)

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post #31
post #23

Did you pay your taxes already ? I wonder what would be your after-tax income ? Again, $2.5k is still very low even for Eastern Europe. From my own experience, I strongly recommend NOT to quit your day job. Try to run it at least for a year, then you will make a way better decision.

After-tax would be around $2k (the effective tax rate for the self employed is 19%). You can live very comfortably on this in Poland.

Or even in western Europe. My regular household expenses, mortgage, etc, are around $2k and I live in the UK, have a kid, a mortgage, a gas-guzzling car, give my wife housekeeping each week (she doesn't work), and we are more than comfortable. I could even make some big cuts into that.
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