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Comment by MicahWedemeyer | Hacker News Reader

[12 < x < 24] year old computer [geek | programmer | hacker] makes [$500k < y < infinity] with [Facebook game | iPhone app | social network]

Don't you guys just love how easy it is to be successful at making money on the Interweb?

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As a relative recently said, "You know the Internet, right? Let's do something and we'll make a lot of money!"

Plastics!

My old boss used to pester me in this way all the time...funny thing is, he was the IT manager for the branch I was in.

Now you know why I still have to use COBOL quite a bit :(

Fly to Haiti and get a decent voodoo exorcism done. That took care of my pain++, it might work for your cobolitis.

reminds me of an old 'net meme :

Step 1) Make [Facebook game | iPhone app | social network]

Step 2) ????????????????????

Step 3) Profit !

But this guy actually has a revenue stream tied to the game.

Yeah, step (2) is apparently quite well defined :)

Are you the developer in the story? Your handle "Torn", same as the game.

[Edit: Obviously not. Will leave this here in case someone else has the same question.]

Sorry just a coincidence - I've been using this handle for eons though.

You'd think so, but it seems like that's where a lot of people get lost.

Its actually crazy, because his game isn't on a platform and hes making $1.5m. He could probably make much more than that if he found out a way to leverage his current userbase on Facebook, Iphone et al.

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