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You need $2000 per month? You must add at least that much extra value into the world to get it. The reason people who responded to the original post suggested c
by josh33 16y ago
You need $2000 per month? You must add at least that much extra value into the world to get it. The reason people who responded to the original post suggested consulting is because consulting is value creation that is very well defined by the person requesting it.
If you want to create value in software, in either desktop, iphone OS, or web apps, you have to look where there is pain in some market, and see if the pain is worth $2000 to solve. It's not a question of platform, but a question of market and value.
- dpcan 16y agoWith mobile "games" it's not about pain, it's about pleasure. If you can show someone a good time for 24 hours, you can get $2 from them. Therefore, in the app world, you are in the "I'll tickle you for $2 business" and you just need 1000 customers a month.
- philwelch 16y agoNow that we have mobile games, people have begun to experience "boredom at the train station" as pain, and "getting tired with old games" as pain too. People will try harder to get themselves from pain back up to baseline than to get themselves from baseline to happiness. And once they reach happiness for long enough, that becomes the new baseline.
- cma 16y ago"You must add at least that much extra value into the world to get it." Not true; every exchange can (and typically does) have externalities (positive and/or negative).
- eru 16y agoFor ethical reasons you should strive for (mostly) positive externalities. That means you need to add those 2000$ plus the externalities.