Re:Writing books is not really a good idea
by andi999 on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:45AM
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If you have a scalable product there is usually no middle ground. Either you are getting rich or just getting by, or even not getting by (last one the most likely one)
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Isn’t software a big exception to this?
Is it? Can you elaborate? I think if you have a SaaS with happy 100 customers paying 10$ each per month it is easier to scale up to 10k customers than if you only have 2 customers to get to 200.
Software is the worst. After 15 years of open source development, I have basically earned nothing
Well you have this at roughly $2000 total: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sarasarasa...
And this at almost a million dollars: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.modelmaker...
I'm not sure if these are outliers, and my "random" sampling is just picking out highly visible apps. But I've made good money off an app built in a month, and I've made relatively little from a book written in 3 months.
Software has a lot more variety. You can make say, a communist themed productivity app vs a forest themed one and these will appeal to different people.