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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by IgorPartola on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:02PM (#27626709)
I am in that last category myself. I had a really nice and useful budget app that had thousands of daily users and cost all of $20/month to keep going, if that. Was making some money off it too with ads and sales of the ad-free version. Except I built it using Ionic back when it was based on Angular 1. Fast forward to now and that code simply doesn’t compile anymore against modern iOS and Android and I don’t have the time to rebuild it. With some TLC it could have been something but at this point all I’m doing is sending replies to customer emails explaining why the app isn’t available anymore. Lesson learned: JavaScript frameworks ruin lives.
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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by weavie on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:58AM (#27629630)
Not just javascript, I built an app in Objective C. It stopped working after IOS 8 (I think) and I no longer had access to a Mac to update it. I too am in the stage of just replying to customers to explain why it isn't available.
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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by selcuka on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:49PM (#27657945)
You can always rent a Mac [1] or use something like Sosumi [2].

[1] https://www.macstadium.com/

[2] https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap

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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by alex_g on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:03AM (#27631659)
What is the app?
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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by weavie on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:49AM (#27662708)
https://spooftrader.net/
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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by selcuka on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:37AM (#27627782)
If you are still making money you may consider outsourcing the v2 development. Even if you still want to exit it'll attract a much higher price.
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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by IgorPartola on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:20AM (#27628340)
Last I checked it was making about $100 every 3 months with the dwindling usage and all. The app took me probably a solid 80 hours of work to put together. I do not know if hiring a developer to work on it would in any way be worth it.
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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by sail0rm00n on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:46AM (#27627238)
Want to sell it? :)
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Re:Tiny Acquisitions by IgorPartola on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:22AM (#27628348)
Sure. https://family-fortune.ridgebit.com/ Is the promo page. As I said, this is a bit of a lego project with a bunch of pieces spilled on the floor. Email is in my profile if you are actually interested.
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