The chances of making a successful mobile app are almost nil

Re:The chances of making a successful mobile app are almost nil by scarface74 on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:05PM (#15333637)

It is better but what are the chances of that realistically happening? When I was doing enterprise mobile development from 2008-2010, I worked for a company that had people to go out an chase funding, marketing, salespeople, a QA department, business analysts, etc. I could have never done that as an individual developer. Even if I were to start my own company, I would still need capital to compete with the big guys. — and the code would not be mine. It would belong to my business that was partially owned by investors.

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Re:The chances of making a successful mobile app are almost nil by Clubber on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:04PM (#15334133)

>It is better but what are the chances of that realistically happening?

Admittedly slim, but much slimmer if you spend 40 hours a week working for someone. :)

Mobile got super saturated quick. I tried the same thing and was only moderately successful. I still work for someone but fight for my own thing when I can.

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Re:The chances of making a successful mobile app are almost nil by scarface74 on Monday September 25, 2017 @06:03PM (#15334569)

Admittedly slim, but much slimmer if you spend 40 hours a week working for someone. :)

Being one of the relatively few people who knew about developing mobile applications in 2008, I tried to do something “on the side” with a coworker. Another much better funded company was able to move faster than we could even though you could tell from their product that they didn’t know the industry they were chasing.

The only way we could have been competitive (not necessarily successfully) was by being able to dedicate to it full time and networking and selling during normal business hours. So yeah, a small independent developer who has to work full time is ata major disadvantage.

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