Ask HN: What's a simple app/software that made a lot of money? What are some apps or software that made decent money (6-figures+), but aren't hard to make at all? Think something that a programmer could make in a weekend or two. Does anything come to mind? |
Of course, if the app is simple to build and makes a ton of money, that invariably means that the other components (marketing, sales, distribution, etc) are tougher to crack.
Can I ask what your goal is? Are you looking to hire a developer for cheap and then do the marketing yourself?
Angry Birds?
Maybe not 1-2 weekends simple but compared to 18 billion dollars the technical aspect is rather insignificant. It's a chat client hugely leveraging existing technology (XMPP, at least in the beginning), not rocket science.
> Angry Birds?
If you reduce it to the basic game mechanics, maybe. All in all it's surely not that simple.
I think Flappy Bird would be a perfectly fitting example here as it's so simple that it literally can be made in one weekend and made, if you believe the news reports up to $50K per day during the hype phase.