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Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by handrous »

par wrote: post #50
imnotreallynew wrote: post #48

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You’re making a healthy revenue, any reason you don’t want to just contract out a few updates? I work full time but I've also run a small contracting business for years, happy to do it at a reasonable cost.

I have considered this, I don't see anywhere near the same purchase conversion on android that I do on iOS. But that could also be due to build quality. Do you have any insight on how successful pay models are on android apps?

This is the norm on Android, and means you have to have huge scale before it's worth releasing a paid or subscription app on Android, which might be viable at much smaller scale on iOS. It's part of why Android's ecosystem has so much prominent adware. Common wisdom (backed up by data) in the industry is that, generally speaking, your "conversion rate" for paid or subscription apps on Android will be a tiny sliver of what it is on iOS, unless your app is very unusual.

There are a bunch of factors that probably cause this, but they're all mixed up and intertwined so it's hard to point at one and go "that's it, that's the reason". Selection bias of the user base (think: socio-economic status, and maybe even average technical know-how or comfort with software); iOS users use their devices way more than Android users, for all purposes (but, is that because of the previous thing? Maybe); it could have something to do with the ecosystems the two app stores have cultivated, causing different levels of trust among the two user bases when it comes time to spend money; it could have something to do with the quality of the experience of using the respective operating systems themselves.

Probably all of those contribute some amount. It's hard to say, though.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by bostik »

par wrote: post #57
asddubs wrote: post #54

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I'm surprised as well. I respect the hustle, but I honestly don't understand why anyone would debase themselves by paying $5 a month to make memes

a lot of my users run fairly large instagram pages (50k+ followers), so for them it's quite worth it I think.

Ok, that's actually quite an interesting - and remarkably specific - customer segment.

If your core customer base pulls in 4 or 5 figures a month from their own hustle, they might be willing to pay up to $15/month for features tailor-made for their needs.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by par »

tommymachine wrote: post #66
par wrote: post #28

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I have been building the app for many years now. In the beginning I spent money mostly on instagram and facebook ads. I had pretty decent results on this, and could get installs for around 20-30 cents. However, those users also trashed my app in comments and didn't convert to paying users. Later I moved to App Store ads, it costs a bit more for the downloads, but the users convert much better. I am starting to think…

what did you use to do the ASO?

I used the free version of App Annie, and did a bunch of experimentation on the title, subtitle and keywords that I entered into the app store.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by chucksta »

orangea wrote: post #70
ryandrake wrote: post #67

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As a user, my order of preference is: 1. Non-personalized (non-intrusive) ads 2. One time payment 3. Yearly subscription 4. Ads that mine Bitcoin or otherwise make use of my compute resources 5. Monthly subscription 6. Personalized, intrusive ads I will go out of my way to actively avoid 4-6. For 3 it would hav to be DAMN good software.

I know it is a popular opinion, but I never understood it... why would you rather have non-personalized ads than personalized ads?

I don't trust whatever company is holding their informational profile of me to hold it securely. Or what the extent of the information they've gathered can indicate, no one is going to stop at "just enough"

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by Freeboots »

asddubs wrote: post #54
par wrote: post #13

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I don't get enough volume for ad support to be meaningful, and i didnt want to ruin the experience with ads. Before subscriptions, for a long time it was a one time purchase only. Then some VC's suggested i experiment with subscriptions, and I was very hesitant and semi grossed out. But I decided to give it a try, and I was seriously amazed that my conversion was barely impacted, and the same people buying one time p…

I'm surprised as well. I respect the hustle, but I honestly don't understand why anyone would debase themselves by paying $5 a month to make memes

A lot of big ig pages or whatever make decent money, even 'theme' pages that dont revolve around an 'influencer' personality. This would be a pretty minor business expense if its even a little bit useful.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by orangea »

chucksta wrote: post #86
orangea wrote: post #70

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I know it is a popular opinion, but I never understood it... why would you rather have non-personalized ads than personalized ads?

I don't trust whatever company is holding their informational profile of me to hold it securely. Or what the extent of the information they've gathered can indicate, no one is going to stop at "just enough"

Honest question, why do you care if it isn't secure? What would be the downside of one's internet activity being public?
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