{"id":80,"date":"2015-07-05T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucvandal.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-03-20T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:09:57","slug":"how-to-be-a-successful-indie-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/05\/how-to-be-a-successful-indie-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a successful indie developer*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Not a guarantee<\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2015\/06\/30\/love\">words<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenpike.com\/2015\/supply-side-blues\/\">written<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/metakite.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/my-delivery-truck\/\">lately<\/a> about how hard it is to make a decent living as an independent software developer. While I agree that it has become harder every year to stay on top of things and keep making it in a crowded space, it is possible if you apply these rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Find a real problem to solve<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that those that have that problem are willing to pay a fair price for your app in order to solve it<\/li>\n<li>Make a great app<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That is what I did with <a href=\"http:\/\/screensapp.com\">Screens<\/a>&nbsp;and I&#8217;m making a pretty good living out of it. Of course, the app was released back in 2010 when there weren&#8217;t as many apps out there and it was easier to get noticed but it is still a proof that a $19.99 iOS app ($29.99 on the Mac) is possible.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it takes a lot more time, money and personal investment&nbsp;nowadays to make it as an indie but that&#8217;s what we call doing business. This isn&#8217;t 2008 anymore and it is not enough to just release a $1.99 app out there and&nbsp;hope to make it. Solve a problem and ask good money for it and you&#8217;ll have more chances to become successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Not a guarantee There has been a lot of words written lately about how hard it is to make a decent living as an independent software developer. While I agree that it has become harder every year to stay on top of things and keep making it in a crowded space, it is possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}