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> In my experience, the time to make money selling mobile apps was 2008-2012 or so. The market is totally different now. The market is very different I agree b
by jamil7 4y ago
> In my experience, the time to make money selling mobile apps was 2008-2012 or so. The market is totally different now.
The market is very different I agree but I'd disagree on the money part. Subscription B2C business models are normalised and there's a lot of companies making a lot of money in both app stores right now. In fact I think you can probably make more money now than you could in 2008-2012. Granted it's all a lot more sophisticated and requires more up-front capital, larger marketing budgets and larger teams than it used to but the money is there.
As far as I see, people are installing less apps but the few they have they're spending more time and money in.
- orangecat 4y agoGranted it's all a lot more sophisticated and requires more up-front capital, larger marketing budgets and larger teams Yeah, that's pretty much the point. In 2010 I released a paid app developed in my spare time, did zero marketing, and made around $10k after app store fees and taxes. That would never happen today.
- jamil7 4y agoYeah paid upfront and zero marketing won't get you far anymore but that's true everywhere in software now.