system
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human
How to create a software development business that fundamentally doesn't have horrible chances of success?

I am a 9-5 smartphone app developer. Although this is an ok thing to do when working for somebody, it becomes a mission impossible when trying to run your own small business  by selling your apps in android market or app store. The number one issue is that there are about 2000 new apps being shited out every day from all over the world directly into these app stores,  which makes it nearly impossible for the app getting noticed, let alone  realistically competing with all those developers . Probably it's the same as one would want to open a restaurant in the district which already has 2000 restaurants, but in this case at least some people do know that you exist, while in smartphone markets your app just sinks and gets forgotten somewhere under the mountain of ever-growing shit. And finally, if investing more time in your restaurant to increase quality of ambient, food or whatever creates more value and consequentially drives more costumers to your place, investing more time in your app isn't that far away from  wasting your time due to high unpredictability. Example; some developer who created a fartsimulator in one night while he was smokin' joint, his app was financially more successful  than a spectral analyser app made in half of year by a team of geekheads.
gpt
Money for advertising, whether inside of the app store or not. Don't sell your own app, sell the base model to someone else and make it their problem. Or be ready to deal with the woes of marketing the app.