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Nice post, but what's left unsaid here is exactly how much he spent on marketing. His gross revenue might have been $417k for the last 12 months, but what's his gross profit?

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that's a good point, and I will add this in the report. I work at home so my expense are only a little bit of marketing, some devices and I've made a trip to a conference this year in california, and a very important thing is that I have to give some royalties back to the speech engine company for the word wizard app. So according to my files, it is about $35K. I would say that marketing is not very expensive but takes a lot of times (anyway buying ads don't work well) EDIT: updated the expense (bad euros/dollars conversion before)

Thanks for responding publicly to my question, Pierre. Class act. And congrats on your success.

Hi Pierre,

Would you be able to comment on how your process and decision on picking a speech engine company?

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it was simple - I tried all the major engines on the market and take the best one for iOS. All companies almost offer the same license (20 to 30% of your income).

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