Can someone explain the value of such a list, am I missing something? Don't get me wrong, your project is neat and I enjoyed looking through it, but I don't understand how anyone would try to sell this or pay money for this.
Maybe these are apps with bad user interfaces or some other issue and it's a list of low hanging fruit ideas?
One app kept track of my car info (vin, insurance, mileage, fillups) and was useful. But one day it was sold - uploaded my data and put it behind a login.
P.S. Do you remember the name of that auto app? Name and shame! ;-)
Another app I had that got worse was camscanner - a scanner app that would take a picture of a document and create a .pdf out of it.
It was sold to tencent. The "privacy policy" - when you could access it (broken links) was written in broken english that basically said it did anything it wanted with your .pdf files.
The kinds of documents I would image to .pdf were extremely sensitive personal documents - think w2, documents with SSN, etc...
At least apple notes eventually added a version of camera to .pdf (though it wasn't obvious how to use it when it came out)
If anyone has good alternative suggestions I'm open, I haven't tried to look as I don't use it much anymore.
You can also do it natively now in iOS Files app and Android's Google Drive.
The real business opportunity is the sale of the list of course. It’s sort of like selling shovels to and booze to gold diggers.
So, sometimes market research is very valuable. This risk you have for "solving problems you personally have" is that you can end up trying to build infra tooling like new databases.
I agree! I didn't intent to discount market research.
>This risk you have for "solving problems you personally have" is that you can end up trying to build infra tooling like new databases.
...which is great and should be encouraged, if it's enjoyable! I was thinking more along the lines of an app store ratings scraper
You can glean information about your competitors’ usage and advertising, which can help you optimize your own app’s advertising spend.
Also, some might sell because their App resembles something popular so some users buy by mistake. Then make sure, it does not parasitise on your app!
I dont think i will put on a pay wall, i will rather try to build a community.