Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays 4x more

Re:Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays... by jannes on Monday December 16, 2013 @03:51PM (#6917733)

Really? How do you target enterprises? It seems impossible to me to know which companies are actually willing to pay decently for apps. All the enterprises that I've encountered generally didn't like to pay more than ~10k euros for an effort of roughly two months of work, which isn't that much if you factor in the expenses (mostly wages).

It seems to me that the enterprise app development space is a low-margin business. At least over here in Germany. There seems to be quite a lot of competition in this space.

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Re:Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays... by freehunter on Monday December 16, 2013 @04:26PM (#6917927)

It depends on what kind of product you're selling. Certain budgets in enterprise are seemingly unlimited, generally when it comes to improving sales. If you're selling security products (outside of the compliance-driven market), you won't find much appetite for large margins. If you're selling CRM products (which are a dime a dozen), you won't find large margins.

You have to find out where a business is willing to invest no matter what the price. I know it exists, unfortunately each industry (and each subset of each industry) is going to have a different area where price is no concern.

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