How to make money as an indie app developer

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This is a great post on what to focus on if you're trying to make a cash-flow business out of building apps.

I especially like the idea of not just looking for competitors, but trying to figure out why they are successful, and making sure that they don't have some advantage that you can't replicate.

Hey, glad you think so. I’ve definitely been lured into a niche where the incumbents are only succeeding because of some external traffic source. Sometimes it’s subtle - big paid app install campaigns can be hard to spot from the sidelines.

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