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		lacampbell on Nov 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Before You Grow What if you want to sell users data? Isn't that what most free web and mobile apps are really selling? I have a lot of great software ideas (great in that I wish they existed and want to use them), but no clue which could actually be monetized effectively. Billions of users seems like a tall order, and not a sensible thing to pursue.

brianwawok on Nov 23, 2016 [–]

Easiest is b2b. Are any of your ideas something a business would pay to use? Start with a product that cost say $50-$500 per month.

Much easier to sell 100 copies of something than get 100 million people to use your software.

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