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What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store. I’ve become so accustomed to thinking of releasing on A

What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store. I’ve become so accustomed to thinking of releasing on Apple first that I didn’t even know you could make money through Teams addons.

sochix 2y ago
Yep, Teams store is a hidden gem.
xyst 2y ago
You can make money through anything that has a decent market size. Slack addons or plugins used to be a good example before it was acquired by Salesforce.
- em-bee 2y ago
  what else is there then? google, microsoft, apple, some chinese companies. can't think of anything else with a large market for apps.
  - Suppafly 2y ago
    roblox :) Honestly though anything with a lot of users typically either has a way to make money selling addons, or by hosting your own content related to their product, like wikis and leaderboards and such.
    - bemmu 2y ago
      There’s even a niche within Roblox, which is making plugins for the IDE used for making games for it, Roblox Studio. There’s a built-in marketplace where you can charge money for them.
  - unmole 2y ago
    Shopify, Wordpress
  - heromal 2y ago
    Post is old by now, but I've had this spreadsheet bookmarked for years:https://medium.com/point-nine-news/a-landscape-of-the-major-saas-app-stores-4c48b103e69b https://medium.com/point-nine-news/a-landscape-of-the-major-...
Suppafly 2y ago
>What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store. Which is very limiting considering that the Apple ecosystem, other than for phones, is the smallest one. A lot of software companies don't even target Apple at all because it's not worth it.
mattmaroon 2y ago
Other ecosystems are smaller (probably nothing has more consumers than the two major app stores) but often much higher intent. The same person who you have to coax into paying $1 for an iOS app won’t bat an eye at a productivity tool that costs $20/mo. So while the platform has less reach the lower competition and higher RPUs make them great. If I were still making games I’d be looking at Steam before iOS, for instance.

sochix 2y ago

Yep, Teams store is a hidden gem.

xyst 2y ago

You can make money through anything that has a decent market size. Slack addons or plugins used to be a good example before it was acquired by Salesforce.

em-bee 2y ago
what else is there then? google, microsoft, apple, some chinese companies. can't think of anything else with a large market for apps.
- Suppafly 2y ago
  roblox :) Honestly though anything with a lot of users typically either has a way to make money selling addons, or by hosting your own content related to their product, like wikis and leaderboards and such.
  - bemmu 2y ago
    There’s even a niche within Roblox, which is making plugins for the IDE used for making games for it, Roblox Studio. There’s a built-in marketplace where you can charge money for them.
- unmole 2y ago
  Shopify, Wordpress
- heromal 2y ago
  Post is old by now, but I've had this spreadsheet bookmarked for years:https://medium.com/point-nine-news/a-landscape-of-the-major-saas-app-stores-4c48b103e69b https://medium.com/point-nine-news/a-landscape-of-the-major-...

Suppafly 2y ago

>What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store. Which is very limiting considering that the Apple ecosystem, other than for phones, is the smallest one. A lot of software companies don't even target Apple at all because it's not worth it.

mattmaroon 2y ago

Other ecosystems are smaller (probably nothing has more consumers than the two major app stores) but often much higher intent. The same person who you have to coax into paying $1 for an iOS app won’t bat an eye at a productivity tool that costs $20/mo. So while the platform has less reach the lower competition and higher RPUs make them great. If I were still making games I’d be looking at Steam before iOS, for instance.