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Re:List of apps people pay for but have low rating by stirfish on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:22PM (#27011210)
Do you ever develop apps to solve problems you personally have?
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Re:List of apps people pay for but have low rating by deadmutex on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:54PM (#27011723)
I remember a story on Startup Podcast (by Gimlet media) about an atheist who looked at top 100 apps, and realized that there was an opportunity to build a better Bible app.

So, sometimes market research is very valuable. This risk you have for "solving problems you personally have" is that you can end up trying to build infra tooling like new databases.

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Re:List of apps people pay for but have low rating by stirfish on Sunday May 02, 2021 @10:16AM (#27015508)
>sometimes market research is very valuable.

I agree! I didn't intent to discount market research.

>This risk you have for "solving problems you personally have" is that you can end up trying to build infra tooling like new databases.

...which is great and should be encouraged, if it's enjoyable! I was thinking more along the lines of an app store ratings scraper

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Re:List of apps people pay for but have low rating by jamestimmins on Sunday May 02, 2021 @12:22AM (#27012333)
Yeah but I got tired of making things nobody else used lol
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