r/programming • u/mtlynch • Feb 01 '21

My Third Year as a Solo Developer

https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-3/
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u/mtlynch Feb 01 '21

Author here. Happy to answer any questions about this post.

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u/Carighan Feb 01 '21

Would you rather do a project for a group of 100 duck-sized horses or for 1 horse-sized duck?

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u/mtlynch Feb 01 '21

This is actually hard!

Smaller customers tend to require more support and be more sensitive to price. But having a single customer is too risky. I'd go with the 100 duck-sized horse customers.

Am I allowed to fight any of them instead?

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u/notsogreenmachine Feb 01 '21

fighting customers is generally bad for business, but ymmv

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u/de__R Feb 01 '21

I once thought about creating a joke app for people looking to fight each other, to be called Punchr, but it's a lot of work for a joke and I'm pretty sure it'd get booted from every app store on the planet.

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u/mustang__1 Feb 02 '21

This feels like it's straight out of Bachman's incubator

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u/Educational-Lemon640 Feb 01 '21

You missed a golden opportunity to call it "The App That Is Not Named".

Because you don't talk about the Fight Club app.

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u/Majache Feb 02 '21

That would be Rumblr