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Indeed. I spent ~6 hours writing a gun "simulator" app that's made something like $50,000. Some of it was luck, but if you're willing to sell your soul and you

Indeed. I spent ~6 hours writing a gun "simulator" app that's made something like $50,000. Some of it was luck, but if you're willing to sell your soul and you can crank out a few of these a week your chances of success are probably higher than spending 6 months perfecting a single app you don't even know anyone wants.

pavel_lishin 15y ago
Why sell your soul and make that decision? Why not do both, and try spending half your time creating trivial fart apps - shouldn't take more than a few hours, right? which you need to get away from your main project that's going to change the way I use my smartphone, etc., etc.
- patrickyeon 15y ago
  If we're offering advice from the peanut gallery (and I'm no smartphone developer, so I'm way up in the peanut gallery), why not spend that time on a program that can generate trivial apps. Extract data [legally, now!] from some source (eg wikipedia), and skin it with some boilerplate and some generated UI elements. I think it'd be a more interesting project to implement the more general version, and once it's nailed down it's probably a better source of revenue too.
  - Mizza 15y ago
    This happens all the time.
jarin 15y ago
This is a lot like the 37signals model of consulting: "sell your soul" to clients until you can afford to take a leap on your own product.
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- Aqua_Geek 15y ago
  > This comment looks casual, but with $50,000 you don't have to work anymore until the end of life. Sadly, $50,000 doesn't go far here in the US. Don't get me wrong - it's definitely a nice chunk of change, but it's far from "don't have to work anymore" land. It's more in the "pay off one's student loans/credit card debt" area of things. Where I live, average home prices seem to be around $320k, so this would barely cover a down-payment.

pavel_lishin 15y ago

Why sell your soul and make that decision? Why not do both, and try spending half your time creating trivial fart apps - shouldn't take more than a few hours, right? which you need to get away from your main project that's going to change the way I use my smartphone, etc., etc.

patrickyeon 15y ago
If we're offering advice from the peanut gallery (and I'm no smartphone developer, so I'm way up in the peanut gallery), why not spend that time on a program that can generate trivial apps. Extract data [legally, now!] from some source (eg wikipedia), and skin it with some boilerplate and some generated UI elements. I think it'd be a more interesting project to implement the more general version, and once it's nailed down it's probably a better source of revenue too.
- Mizza 15y ago
  This happens all the time.

jarin 15y ago

This is a lot like the 37signals model of consulting: "sell your soul" to clients until you can afford to take a leap on your own product.

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Aqua_Geek 15y ago
> This comment looks casual, but with $50,000 you don't have to work anymore until the end of life. Sadly, $50,000 doesn't go far here in the US. Don't get me wrong - it's definitely a nice chunk of change, but it's far from "don't have to work anymore" land. It's more in the "pay off one's student loans/credit card debt" area of things. Where I live, average home prices seem to be around $320k, so this would barely cover a down-payment.