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Not All Apps Can Be Instagrams, But Someone Might Be Willing to Buy Them
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jorlow
on Nov 29, 2012
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toddh
on Nov 30, 2012
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So it's a lot like gold prospecting?
jckay
on Nov 30, 2012
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Most app developers can only monetize 10-15% of their users via "common methods". Selling your app allows you to monetize 100% of that user base. Not such a bad deal.
guscost
on Nov 30, 2012
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Yep - you can probably make more money by selling shovels.
eliransapir
on Nov 30, 2012
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Really? is that what you think? Where are those shovels?
guscost
on Nov 30, 2012
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Stripe, Heroku, Olark, etc.
jmathai
on Nov 30, 2012
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