Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/06/some-indie-facebook-developers-pulling-in-over-700000-a-month/

by jasonlbaptiste • 17 years ago

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ojbyrne• 17 years ago

I'll bet $100 this story is complete bullshit. It's in techcrunch's interest to publish "get rich quick" stories when in actuality the real story is "starve." I should know.

grag2• 17 years ago

I'm not sure how common it is for apps to be making that much, but I know one of the top apps is pulling in $5,000+ a day, and it's by an individual developer.

I was making around $150 a day from an app with 100,000 monthly active (90% were CPA ads with the rest being socialmedia), and there are a fair amount with over 5 million monthly.

sahaj• 17 years ago

do you mind sharing the names of these apps?

paulgb4• 17 years ago

I agree. I totally understand ojbyrne's scepticism, but after a number of conversations in the last couple months I don't have any trouble believing TechCrunch's claim. The question is whether the money is sustainable.

gne19633• 17 years ago

nice call sahaj to ask for specifics. Unfortunately I doubt you will get them.

boundlessdreamz• 17 years ago

Which CPA ad provider were you using ?

cellis• 17 years ago

You're wrong. But in the absence of evidence, denial prevails. And most of these indie devs are not going to provide numbers because they don't want to attract attention/competition.

captainobvious• 17 years ago

Some burger joints do the same, but I think I'll stick to not starting my own burger joint.

paulgb4• 17 years ago

True, but if an burger joint run by one person started making that much money within several months of being conceived, I'd be at least a little bit interested.

gne19633• 17 years ago

The headline is quite misleading, suggesting a single "developer/hacker/coder/programmer" can make $700K a month. The reality is that they don't even name the firm that they reference as bringing in that 700k...

wallflower• 17 years ago

Potentially huge scalable rewards. I think nir said it well in the 'scalable vs non-scalable career thread':

"I realize how fortunate we are to work in software. It's one of very few fields where you can make a decent non-scalable income while at the same time (sometimes via the same actual product) being exposed to potentially huge scalable rewards."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506039

apstuff• 17 years ago

Let's all run to that side of the boat because that's where the fish are biting.

Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month

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