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I have developed about 20 mobile apps for the KaiOS ecosystem, which does around $500-$750 a month.

I also run https://monitorprices.org, which is just a list of available monitors on Amazon, but provides a bit more filters. Does about $125 a month, maybe double if there’s a creator reward campaign running.

Nothing splashy or exciting really, but it gives me motivation to keep trying things.

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This is interesting. Why did you pick KaiOS? If money was the goal, I guess iOS and Android would make more, isn't it?

How does the development process feel like?

I did some work for a client who wanted to build an app for it. After that I ended up building a few apps just for fun, and once they started bringing in some ad money, I just ended up building more.

I think their ecosystem is still small enough that good apps do well, whereas with iOS/Android you really have to build super polished apps and market them to thrive.

KaiOS is just HTML/JavaScript, I ended up using Vue and building my own component library that I could re-use in every app.

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