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Android Developer Income Report #10

112 points by kreci 15y ago

kreci 15y ago
As usual all comments are welcome and very desired! =)
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- Emouri 15y ago
  Those Google adds are really distracting for me. It's good to see you're still doing so well though.
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creativeone 15y ago
What are his running costs?
netcan 15y ago
Would be interesting to get a summary at some point of how many total hours you spend on each of these and when you spent it.
mindball 15y ago
quite interesting
arthurk 15y ago
I remember your post from about a year ago when you quit your day job and wanted to make money with website flipping. However, I haven't checked your blog since then and this looks like you're doing quite well.
nicpottier 15y ago
Really? This is upvoted on HN and on the front page? What are the apps? Let's see, all super simple, very marginal quality gag apps, presumably with lots of ads since that is the income. And an e-book on how to do this? How to flood the Android market with apps that exist ten times over so you can make a few pennies off the ads? Do we really need updates on this monthly? Yes, you can make a little money shoveling endless crap and putting ads on it. But I don't personally find it something to aspire to. </rant>
- andrewljohnson 15y ago
  I think he's scrappy, and I love how a man can pull himself up by whatever boot straps he can find. He might not be making a killing (yet) or making anything you care about (yet), but he's making stuff by himself and making money. How many can say the same?
  - nicpottier 15y ago
    I've been working for myself for quite a while, and I even made some apps that were along the same lines at one point and did well off of them. (much better than this) But I wasn't shoveling them out, I was spending some time on them and making them great. There are lots of ways of making money, lots of ways to work for yourself, but that doesn't mean they should all be lauded. There are a dozen broken screen apps in the Android market, I bet there are a dozen for all the apps he's made. I mean this is just spam in the market man.. come on.
    - andrewljohnson 15y ago
      I don't like to call another person's work spam unless there is a big reason to do so. As far as I can tell, he's an honest developer trying to get by. FYI, I have what I would call a thriving app business on iPhone/Android, much bigger than the OP. However, I don't think my work makes his work any less meaningful. If you want to go rag on some spammers, there are plenty of people actually spamming people with their websites and email campaigns. I don't see how a broken screen app is comparable to stealing an email address and sending viagra spam. Or even on the same level as Honestly.com, which tricks users into giving over contact info.
andy_boot 15y ago
are you making all your android income from those 7 apps listed on your site? Can you give a breakdown of income per app ?
rkalla 15y ago
Love these posts; even though the website is heavy on ads, I feel like the tradeoff is that you are opening up your ledger and letting us all glance at it. I have no problem with you wanting me to click an ad or two in the process. You are genuinely producing content that is valuable to me (at the least, interesting). Thanks for sticking to your guns and continuing to do these series.
- csomar 15y ago
  I wasn't really aware of the ads (running AdBlock), but I think he is a little bit abusing his blog. I think HN traffic is very valuable if he knows how to leverage it.
  - Daniel14 15y ago
    As long as people can't game HN points, I don't think there's a problem with people trying to get their ads on front page - Only if enough people thought the content was worth looking at the ads it gets upvoted, so the quality stays good. (As an aside: I don't know much about this, but wouldn't it be relatively easy to create a couple of dozen hn accounts, set up a script and upvote any post you like.. Indeed, with the amount of geeks visiting the site, I'd be surprised if it hadn't already been done. Anyone care to explain?)
    - omouse 15y ago
      in reply to your aside: you could use something like Twill for command-line navigation script (doesnt work with javascript though I don't think) http://twill.idyll.org/commands.html http://twill.idyll.org/commands.html
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112 points by kreci 15y ago

kreci 15y ago

As usual all comments are welcome and very desired! =)

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Emouri 15y ago
Those Google adds are really distracting for me. It's good to see you're still doing so well though.
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creativeone 15y ago

What are his running costs?

netcan 15y ago

Would be interesting to get a summary at some point of how many total hours you spend on each of these and when you spent it.

mindball 15y ago

quite interesting

arthurk 15y ago

I remember your post from about a year ago when you quit your day job and wanted to make money with website flipping. However, I haven't checked your blog since then and this looks like you're doing quite well.

nicpottier 15y ago

Really? This is upvoted on HN and on the front page? What are the apps? Let's see, all super simple, very marginal quality gag apps, presumably with lots of ads since that is the income. And an e-book on how to do this? How to flood the Android market with apps that exist ten times over so you can make a few pennies off the ads? Do we really need updates on this monthly? Yes, you can make a little money shoveling endless crap and putting ads on it. But I don't personally find it something to aspire to. </rant>

andrewljohnson 15y ago
I think he's scrappy, and I love how a man can pull himself up by whatever boot straps he can find. He might not be making a killing (yet) or making anything you care about (yet), but he's making stuff by himself and making money. How many can say the same?
- nicpottier 15y ago
  I've been working for myself for quite a while, and I even made some apps that were along the same lines at one point and did well off of them. (much better than this) But I wasn't shoveling them out, I was spending some time on them and making them great. There are lots of ways of making money, lots of ways to work for yourself, but that doesn't mean they should all be lauded. There are a dozen broken screen apps in the Android market, I bet there are a dozen for all the apps he's made. I mean this is just spam in the market man.. come on.
  - andrewljohnson 15y ago
    I don't like to call another person's work spam unless there is a big reason to do so. As far as I can tell, he's an honest developer trying to get by. FYI, I have what I would call a thriving app business on iPhone/Android, much bigger than the OP. However, I don't think my work makes his work any less meaningful. If you want to go rag on some spammers, there are plenty of people actually spamming people with their websites and email campaigns. I don't see how a broken screen app is comparable to stealing an email address and sending viagra spam. Or even on the same level as Honestly.com, which tricks users into giving over contact info.

andy_boot 15y ago

are you making all your android income from those 7 apps listed on your site? Can you give a breakdown of income per app ?

rkalla 15y ago

Love these posts; even though the website is heavy on ads, I feel like the tradeoff is that you are opening up your ledger and letting us all glance at it. I have no problem with you wanting me to click an ad or two in the process. You are genuinely producing content that is valuable to me (at the least, interesting). Thanks for sticking to your guns and continuing to do these series.

csomar 15y ago
I wasn't really aware of the ads (running AdBlock), but I think he is a little bit abusing his blog. I think HN traffic is very valuable if he knows how to leverage it.
- Daniel14 15y ago
  As long as people can't game HN points, I don't think there's a problem with people trying to get their ads on front page - Only if enough people thought the content was worth looking at the ads it gets upvoted, so the quality stays good. (As an aside: I don't know much about this, but wouldn't it be relatively easy to create a couple of dozen hn accounts, set up a script and upvote any post you like.. Indeed, with the amount of geeks visiting the site, I'd be surprised if it hadn't already been done. Anyone care to explain?)
  - omouse 15y ago
    in reply to your aside: you could use something like Twill for command-line navigation script (doesnt work with javascript though I don't think) http://twill.idyll.org/commands.html http://twill.idyll.org/commands.html
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