> The only viable option is ads
I know I must get with the times or whatever, but man this is sad. Essentially every consumer social app creator is just working for the ad industry, or for free.
I know I must get with the times or whatever, but man this is sad. Essentially every consumer social app creator is just working for the ad industry, or for free.
If you want to make money with what you're doing you need to be either really good/marketing-savvy/popular or pick something that most people consider 'boring'.
Please tell that to my boss/company owner. He sees news articles about how such-and-such social startup created an app in X days and wonders why we can't do the same just as quickly.
Sure, if you want me to write a Twitter clone I can do that in an afternoon. If you want me to write an app for a very specific enterprise sector filled with regulations, while making sure it integrates with our existing desktop software (that was originally written without internet connectivity in mind at all), that'll take an order of magnitude more days.
i think there should be a lot more innovation in viable business models rather than concept of the product itself, but that doesn't seem to be a popular sentiment.