Re:Ask HN: How to monetize for an extremely niche market?
by avifreedman on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @08:34AM
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Offer the source code for the app to others looking to develop similar applications. Doesn't have to be a lot of $ and you could include N (say 5) hours of customization for a $250 or $500 license fee.
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Re:Ask HN: How to monetize for an extremely niche market?
by ceeK on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @10:05AM
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Interesting idea! How would you personally go about this? Having an option on the website to license would be my first thought as I'm not sure how fruitful actively trying to find such people would be.
Re:Ask HN: How to monetize for an extremely niche market?
by helen842000 on Thursday September 12, 2013 @03:18PM
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I think this is pretty interesting. I live in a city with two Universities and the city hall refuses to open source bus time data. Public transport could really be improved if people just had more visibility.
Depending on the setup required I'd be interested in replicating this for the buses between my local Universities.
Also, in the paid app could there be some kind of user sourced live updates option. Even if it's just displaying a tweet feed of a particular uni bus hashtag e.g " The B4 bus is at the Smith Street stop." Then you can see when your bus is a couple of stops away, you know it's en route.