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Re:I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Paymen... by dvko on Saturday November 16, 2019 @03:17AM (#21551604)
I fully agree with this sentiment. I myself piggy-backed my product (or rather: feature) on a much langer company which was growing like crazy and have been able to grow it to a comfortable $40.000 per month over the last 6 years. It’s just me doing the bulk of the work with 2 friends helping out to handle 1st level support.

Now that it is a mature product and as long as the company I depend upon does not overhaul their API, it’s really just a 10hr/week job, affording me more freedom than is good for me.

I’d say there are loads of opportunities like this out there, especially in places developers do not want to go because they are not deemed cutting-edge or fun.

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Re:I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Paymen... by rscherf on Saturday November 16, 2019 @08:50AM (#21552608)
This is EXACTLY what I did, and I agree there are soooo many opportunities like this. I think most people are risk averse to it as they think the API might get shut off, but I look at it as a really quick way to build something. If it gets cut off, on to the next.
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Re:I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Paymen... by sprflyprgrmrguy on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:19AM (#21565460)
I'm not so sure the issue is risk aversion, so much as it is not seeing those opportunities whether because they're unable to see opportunities in the work that they're doing to take advantage of... or they're just not around environments where opportunities like this might exist; or a combination of both.
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Re:I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Paymen... by jventura on Saturday November 16, 2019 @03:23AM (#21551612)
> I’d say there are loads of opportunities like this out there, especially in places developers do not want to go because they are not deemed cutting-edge or fun.

Any suggestions?

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Re:I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Paymen... by dvko on Saturday November 16, 2019 @05:14AM (#21551925)
Integrations with popular services for legacy codebases. Preferrably for a service the user is already paying for.

Personally my product is “X for WordPress”, where X is a marketing tool that grew a lot over the last decade.

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