Seriously. I work with apps. Those things are expensive and time-consuming. They make sense if you already have a running business and the app can save costs somewhere. But if you think your new B2C app is going to be the new Tiktok and make you a gazillionaire, think again.
First of all you need people to make the god damn app. You might know some React Native and be able to code something yourself which is fine but you still don't know shit about UX, design, customer support, project management or legal bullshit. You need to spend at least a six-figure sum to move from idea to first release in the app stores.
And then your troubles have only started as you need a ridiculously large marketing budget just to get users to sign up or even notice you exist. With more users comes more load on your backend, resulting in higher hosting costs. There will be a torrent of weird crashes and annoying bugs that you will need to spend time and money to fix. And even if you get your app to work and you get people to actually use it you still need to find some way to extract profit from them without scaring them away.
Think of your clever app idea if you have a lot of money you want to get rid off. Don't fool yourself into believing that your super clever idea for a Facebook killer will pay off your student loans.
People who make these kind of lists doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about and they're disrespecting the hard work that goes into creating the seemingly easy and free products that keeps the digital society running. They are not in the businesses of offering you helpful advice, no matter their intentions all they do is to legitimise capitalism, a system in which the masses (yes, that's you) live under helplessly precarious conditions, by gaslighting you into believing there is a quick fix to your economic woes and that you only have yourself to blame for not exploiting all these opportunities.
These things aren't for their stated target audience. They are for the petite bourgeois shitheads who inherited wealth or lucked into it to reinforce that they are not only deserving of their lucre but also plenty of handy justifications for why the poor deserve to he poor.
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"Best income idea ... an app" :data-laughing:
Seriously. I work with apps. Those things are expensive and time-consuming. They make sense if you already have a running business and the app can save costs somewhere. But if you think your new B2C app is going to be the new Tiktok and make you a gazillionaire, think again.
First of all you need people to make the god damn app. You might know some React Native and be able to code something yourself which is fine but you still don't know shit about UX, design, customer support, project management or legal bullshit. You need to spend at least a six-figure sum to move from idea to first release in the app stores.
And then your troubles have only started as you need a ridiculously large marketing budget just to get users to sign up or even notice you exist. With more users comes more load on your backend, resulting in higher hosting costs. There will be a torrent of weird crashes and annoying bugs that you will need to spend time and money to fix. And even if you get your app to work and you get people to actually use it you still need to find some way to extract profit from them without scaring them away.
Think of your clever app idea if you have a lot of money you want to get rid off. Don't fool yourself into believing that your super clever idea for a Facebook killer will pay off your student loans.
People who make these kind of lists doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about and they're disrespecting the hard work that goes into creating the seemingly easy and free products that keeps the digital society running. They are not in the businesses of offering you helpful advice, no matter their intentions all they do is to legitimise capitalism, a system in which the masses (yes, that's you) live under helplessly precarious conditions, by gaslighting you into believing there is a quick fix to your economic woes and that you only have yourself to blame for not exploiting all these opportunities.
These things aren't for their stated target audience. They are for the petite bourgeois shitheads who inherited wealth or lucked into it to reinforce that they are not only deserving of their lucre but also plenty of handy justifications for why the poor deserve to he poor.
Buying an app is probably a good bet, based on what has happened in the past. Not that I agree with it, fuck these people.
A company will buy an app that many people have already installed, then either add more ads, more spying, or more micro transactions to it.