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The way to make money with software is to either have a good marketing team or to spend a lot of time doing it yourself. But releasing a project and hoping don
by laurent123456 9y ago
The way to make money with software is to either have a good marketing team or to spend a lot of time doing it yourself.
But releasing a project and hoping donations will come in almost never works.
- bartread 9y agoThis is quite true. I have an online games website I work on mostly for my own enjoyment. Basically just my take on classic arcade games like Asteroids (https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/ https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/) and the little known Star Castle (https://arcade.ly/games/starcastle/ https://arcade.ly/games/starcastle/). It's made a grand total of less than £7 from ad revenue over the last two years... because what I want to do for fun is write the games, and not a bunch of boring SEO. Sadly it's the boring SEO that might make it pay enough to cover its own hosting. And even knowing this I'm still too unmotivated to do anything about it[1]. [1] Granted I should probably use Fiverr or Peopleperhour to pay somebody to do it for me, and I probably will, but I at least want to finish my version of Space Invaders first... and, fortunately, I have some time off over Christmas to work on it.