Re: [OT] Job hunting
Re: [OT] Job hunting
- Subject: Re: [OT] Job hunting
- From: Charlton Wilbur <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:59:32 -0500
On Mar 22, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Adam Hall wrote:
I suspect the problem with everyone dismissing $10-15 shareware apps
is that its hard to know if selling 10,000 copies is realistic.
It depends on what the idea is, and what the competition is like. It
wouldn't surprise me if companies like The Little Application Factory
(makers of iPodRip and NetflixFreak) have sold more than 10,000 copies.
And Delicious Monster is doing the same thing in a slightly higher-end
market. The difference, though, is that in an industry job you have
security and stability that don't depend on the vagaries of the market
or on you coming up with the next brilliant idea that will sell 10,000
copies; with the independent-shareware-developer hat on, you bear all
the risk and all the responsibility for your app, but you also reap all
the rewards.
It also wouldn't surprise me if Proteus (an IM app) made a lot of money
at first, but now there are other free IM apps of comparable quality.
Proteus is quite good, but with AdiumX and Fire both also being quite
good and free, there's less reason for someone wanting an IM client to
buy one, even for $20 or so.
I can tell you a tenth of that would be a hit in my experience, but I
could be doing things totally wrong.
Well, one of the most difficult and random things, in my experience, is
getting the people who would buy your app to find out about it. I
don't think there's a magic solution to that, and it's frustrating
because you have so little real control over it. You can polish your
app and make it rock-solid reliable, but you can't easily make people
find out about it.
Charlton
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