So how can people who are good at programming make a living now? Let's say you thought you could do it by making a couple of cool shareware things, but now you realize you can't make a living doing that. What else can these developers do? Because the skillset is there, and it's not obsolete...so somehow they should be able to make a living with it. But what is the way?
-superboyac
I believe that the answer is in the size of the app. There's a lot of really low end widgets out there, "many clones, all alike". They're all 1-man shows. Now I absolutely think for deep social reasons we need free widgets, you're just not going to get 29.95 each for them.
Start getting all the 1-man cowboys to begin teaming up and multi-bundle the functions of apps into bigger packages. Hoping I don't sound stupid, it can't be that hard to take what would have been two small apps and smash them together to make one bigger more powerful app. Once that bigger app passes some threshold I believe it might be worth the Freemium fee, say $5 or less.
But you're really using Apps as *ads* for your programming, to be picked up by a corporation. *That's* what I see as the real future. Cool little app won't make anything, but I wasn't kidding that Commissioned Coding is part of that future. Look at my purposely (slightly wacky!) PGN processor app. Dunno how long you super-experts would take but I'd consider hiring some of you for whatever next commission project comes my way. I know there's a Price-Drilldown effect, but I still think I paid about $100 for that because once you get beyond the Snack level Apps explode and I was respectful of debug time.
So then if you're a smart programmer you might get a real corp contract for something. (This senile birdy seems to think there's still bugs in my NANY edition. I am half decent at versioning, and I lost the Final copy. Quick guess says one bug was the Last Name system, I think it messes up compound names like Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander.)
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