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As a synonym, every time I had an APP idea, I search the play store and App Store and there are at least 10 variants. Discarded. After this happened couple of t

As a synonym, every time I had an APP idea, I search the play store and App Store and there are at least 10 variants. Discarded. After this happened couple of times, I have had enough. Finally decided to go anyway.

Akcium 6y ago
Yep, you should try anyway because if you dig deeper, you'll still find dozens or hundreds of more or less similar apps. What can you do? Make them better, or at least try =)
- mromanuk 6y ago
  A possible better way than better, is being different :) When you try to make a better product, you are automatically comparing yourself to other products. Instead, when you try to be different you are creating your own niche and your own rules. Yor product will not be compared against others. At least if you fail, you will be original and not another copy-cat.
yboris 6y ago
I decided to create an app to browse and search through videos on your computer. There are many out there, but none had the specific set of features (and visual appeal) that I wanted. I now sell about 100 copies per month for about $500 income per month. I give $350 to charity for every 100 copies, but that's a personal decision. Building it has been a great learning experience. Interacting with customers has been a very rewarding experience (so many people love it). Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/en/ https://videohubapp.com/en/ and Open Source on GitHub - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
- ackbar03 6y ago
  Kudos to you, that's awesome, especially giving most of it to charity. How did you reach your customers? At 5 dollars per sale, that's around 100 customers per month for something that seems relatively non-essential
  - yboris 6y ago
    Google analytics shows traffic as mostly direct and from Google; the next largest fraction coming from Reddit (I shared it a few times), and many from GitHub. I have never paid for advertisements. The first time I shared it on HN it went to the front page :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 ps - it's not essential, but I think many people use it for porn ;)
- 0xy 6y ago
  This is great and I've bookmarked this to buy later, if it had sorting/tagging/advanced filtering options I'd spend $50 on this, maybe more. I have a very large collection of assorted YouTube rips I've gathered over the years and would love software to help me arrange it.
  - yboris 6y ago
    It has sorting, tagging, and advanced filtering options (fuzzy search, regex, etc) - you just have to enable them in the settings menu. Building your own copy is also hassle-free, just npm install, npm run build. Version 3 (releasing this month) already on main branch, has more features than public version.

Akcium 6y ago

Yep, you should try anyway because if you dig deeper, you'll still find dozens or hundreds of more or less similar apps. What can you do? Make them better, or at least try =)

mromanuk 6y ago
A possible better way than better, is being different :) When you try to make a better product, you are automatically comparing yourself to other products. Instead, when you try to be different you are creating your own niche and your own rules. Yor product will not be compared against others. At least if you fail, you will be original and not another copy-cat.

yboris 6y ago

I decided to create an app to browse and search through videos on your computer. There are many out there, but none had the specific set of features (and visual appeal) that I wanted. I now sell about 100 copies per month for about $500 income per month. I give $350 to charity for every 100 copies, but that's a personal decision. Building it has been a great learning experience. Interacting with customers has been a very rewarding experience (so many people love it). Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/en/ https://videohubapp.com/en/ and Open Source on GitHub - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

ackbar03 6y ago
Kudos to you, that's awesome, especially giving most of it to charity. How did you reach your customers? At 5 dollars per sale, that's around 100 customers per month for something that seems relatively non-essential
- yboris 6y ago
  Google analytics shows traffic as mostly direct and from Google; the next largest fraction coming from Reddit (I shared it a few times), and many from GitHub. I have never paid for advertisements. The first time I shared it on HN it went to the front page :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 ps - it's not essential, but I think many people use it for porn ;)
0xy 6y ago
This is great and I've bookmarked this to buy later, if it had sorting/tagging/advanced filtering options I'd spend $50 on this, maybe more. I have a very large collection of assorted YouTube rips I've gathered over the years and would love software to help me arrange it.
- yboris 6y ago
  It has sorting, tagging, and advanced filtering options (fuzzy search, regex, etc) - you just have to enable them in the settings menu. Building your own copy is also hassle-free, just npm install, npm run build. Version 3 (releasing this month) already on main branch, has more features than public version.