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Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month
- ojbyrne 18y agoI'll bet $100 this story is complete bullshit. It's in techcrunch's interest to publish "get rich quick" stories when in actuality the real story is "starve." I should know.
- grag 18y agoI'm not sure how common it is for apps to be making that much, but I know one of the top apps is pulling in $5,000+ a day, and it's by an individual developer. I was making around $150 a day from an app with 100,000 monthly active (90% were CPA ads with the rest being socialmedia), and there are a fair amount with over 5 million monthly.
- sahaj 18y agodo you mind sharing the names of these apps?
- paulgb 18y agoI agree. I totally understand ojbyrne's scepticism, but after a number of conversations in the last couple months I don't have any trouble believing TechCrunch's claim. The question is whether the money is sustainable.
- gne1963 18y agoand further if TechCrunch can back up it's claims with specifics
- weaksauce 18y agoDoes it matter if the money is sustainable? I only ask because there is a good chance that the cost to develop the app is much less than 500k. I would take a month of that kind of revenue and parlay it into capital for another venture if it stopped suddenly.
- paulgb 18y agoYeah, I absolutely agree. That's the attitude I see in developers. The apps that make money are often not very complex, so it's worth the effort even if the party doesn't last forever.
- gne1963 18y agonice call sahaj to ask for specifics. Unfortunately I doubt you will get them.
- paulgb 18y agoThere's a lot of secrecy in the industry right now, because most developers see it as a fixed-sum game. Most apps are not technically difficult to duplicate, so saying publicly that your app is making lots of money is asking for others to copy it.
- boundlessdreamz 18y agoWhich CPA ad provider were you using ?
- grag 18y agoazoogle
- cellis 18y agoYou're wrong. But in the absence of evidence, denial prevails. And most of these indie devs are not going to provide numbers because they don't want to attract attention/competition.
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- captainobvious 18y agoSome burger joints do the same, but I think I'll stick to not starting my own burger joint.
- paulgb 18y agoTrue, but if an burger joint run by one person started making that much money within several months of being conceived, I'd be at least a little bit interested.
- gne1963 18y agoThe headline is quite misleading, suggesting a single "developer/hacker/coder/programmer" can make $700K a month. The reality is that they don't even name the firm that they reference as bringing in that 700k...
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- wallflower 18y agoPotentially huge scalable rewards. I think nir said it well in the 'scalable vs non-scalable career thread': "I realize how fortunate we are to work in software. It's one of very few fields where you can make a decent non-scalable income while at the same time (sometimes via the same actual product) being exposed to potentially huge scalable rewards." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506039 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506039
- apstuff 18y agoLet's all run to that side of the boat because that's where the fish are biting.