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An old coworker of mine had a friend who created an app for tugboat captains, and is now pulling over 200k a year from it (probably more now). There are opportu
by silent_cal 3y ago
An old coworker of mine had a friend who created an app for tugboat captains, and is now pulling over 200k a year from it (probably more now). There are opportunities, they're just not very "cool". Have to look in unusual places.
- ActionHank 3y agoOut of curiosity, what sort of functionality does a tugboat captain need that a regular boat\ship captain wouldn't?
- silent_cal 3y agoI honestly have no idea, but I think his customers are mostly moving goods up and down the Mississippi River. So there's probably some specific needs there.
- ActionHank 3y agoTinder for tugboat captains confirmed!
- silent_cal 3y agoLol
- bombcar 3y agoThere's tons of "small money" (read, too small for a VC, quite comfortable for a single developer or small company) to be made helping to automate small businesses, especially things that are built on a lot of independent contractors. Some VC firm tried to do it for trucking and exploded recently, but there's still needs there that can be filled. The key is to fill slowly and grow; for an example (and completely guessing) you could have an app that starts out as just a "tugboat parking availability" or whatever, and then you find what the users using it would also like to see.
- silent_cal 3y agoSounds like a nice strategy