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  • 19-08-2014 5:15pm
    #1
    veganrun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭


    I'm interested in trying to earn a bit of extra money part-time. I've developed a few Windows Phone apps but released them for free and they have no ad's so obviously there is zero revenue coming in there.

    Does anyone here do any kind of dev work part-time/on the side to earn some extra cash? If so, how do you go about getting that type of work?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    TonyStark
    Registered Users Posts: 851 ✭✭✭TonyStark


    veganrun wrote: »
    I'm interested in trying to earn a bit of extra money part-time. I've developed a few Windows Phone apps but released them for free and they have no ad's so obviously there is zero revenue coming in there.

    Does anyone here do any kind of dev work part-time/on the side to earn some extra cash? If so, how do you go about getting that type of work?

    Thanks

    Any possibility you could monetise your existing apps or whitelabel them for local businesses?

    Draw income from what you have already!


  • #3
    veganrun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭veganrun


    TonyStark wrote: »
    Any possibility you could monetise your existing apps or whitelabel them for local businesses?

    Draw income from what you have already!

    Possibly, although I'm not sure what you mean by whitelabel them for local businesses?


  • #4
    TonyStark
    Registered Users Posts: 851 ✭✭✭TonyStark


    veganrun wrote: »
    Possibly, although I'm not sure what you mean by whitelabel them for local businesses?

    Basically have an app that does something useful, but sell it to a business as a branded app.

    For instance as a very simple example you might have an app that displays the rss from a WordPress blog. But you sell the app to a company with their logo and color scheme with their rss blogs news in it.

    Fundamental app stays the same across all apps created, branding etc.They feedback on useful features, you generate some revenue from the resulting dev requests or you offer the changes across to all customers who have paid a license for upgrades etc.. It's a basic example.


  • #5
    Zipppy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Zipppy


    Any links to the windows phone Apps you released?


  • #6
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    If you're looking to make some extra money, I think developing/releases your own applications is probably a bit of a long shot. It's a lot like buying a lotto ticket, a few apps do make a lot of money, but most make about zero. Ignoring your time, even if you buy a domain name/webhost...you're likely to end up in the red.

    Even reasonably 'successful' apps with ads don't make much. At my peak, I had 10,000 hits per month and I was only making ~4-5 EUR per month. In the last 3 years, that's like 150 EUR I've made, but I bought a domain name and I pay for hosting. That's maybe a net of 125 EUR. So, once per year, I could take my wife out to dinner at Eddie Rockets :)

    If you can pick up some contract work, it's a lot more reliable. You won't stand to make millions when you invent the next Candy Crush, but you can get 30-100 per hour.


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