News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The economics of vending machines. Parent comment

Re:The economics of vending machines by sokoloff on Monday October 05, 2020 @08:43AM (#24687203)
"Average" (of 23 survey respondents) might not be a particularly great measure. I can imagine many operators would have 1-3 machines on the premises of the business they are actually focused on (a pizza shop or an office cafeteria with a drink and a snacks vending machine), while others might have 75 or more.

(How much does the average mobile app make? Does that low 4-figure amount (edit-to-add: per year) mean that app development is a dead end?)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The economics of vending machines by martin_a on Monday October 05, 2020 @09:26AM (#24687540)
Do you need to put aside money for insurance, ongoing repairs/maintenance, restocking physical goods, vandalism/loss of the machine for apps?

I think vending machines are not really a realiable income when looking at the costs that might occur.

So, I'd take any 4-figure app over any amount of vending machines.

[ Parent | on HN ]