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Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by soiler on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:09AM (#34958038)
So how do you pay your rent? Most of us aren't working for others because we like it.
Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by wahnfrieden on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:19PM (#34959967)
Apple ecosystem apps w/ IAP
Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by theonething on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:58PM (#34965806)
That's awesome. You're living my dream.

The App Store is so competitive nowadays though. Any advice for newcomers? (without giving away your trade secrets). How did you come up with your app ideas?

Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by wahnfrieden on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @12:20AM (#34965926)
I will start blogging in the open about this stuff because I have enough moat

I target language learning but that was just enough to escape wage labor and have irons burning now. My ideas all come from various hobby interests I know well, and focusing on problems that in some way help other people aspire toward making money themselves. I also find strategies where I can scale without costs or high maintenance needs (eg moving away from servers which can be spun as privacy consideration, despite my devops career; iCloud helps here)

Another tip is that now with SwiftUI enabling much easier cross platform mac/iOS native apps, there’s opportunity to cover those platforms solo where most incumbents are iOS exclusive or one platform is under resourced

I’m also now learning about worker syndicalism and trying to figure out how to build up some organized efforts beyond my solo work without taking on investors or employees

Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by theonething on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @05:31PM (#34975865)
Thank you. Is there an email list I can get on or something else I can check to see when you debut your blog?
Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by wahnfrieden on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:21PM (#34989761)
only active social is twitter @manabioSRS which I will cross promote later this year into the new project
Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by wahnfrieden on Saturday March 11, 2023 @11:10AM (#35109526)
oops typo, @manabiSRS