Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month

[ojbyrne]

I'll bet $100 this story is complete bullshit. It's in techcrunch's interest to publish "get rich quick" stories when in actuality the real story is "starve." I should know.

[grag]

I'm not sure how common it is for apps to be making that much, but I know one of the top apps is pulling in $5,000+ a day, and it's by an individual developer.

I was making around $150 a day from an app with 100,000 monthly active (90% were CPA ads with the rest being socialmedia), and there are a fair amount with over 5 million monthly.

[cellis]

You're wrong. But in the absence of evidence, denial prevails. And most of these indie devs are not going to provide numbers because they don't want to attract attention/competition.

[captainobvious]

Some burger joints do the same, but I think I'll stick to not starting my own burger joint.

[paulgb]

True, but if an burger joint run by one person started making that much money within several months of being conceived, I'd be at least a little bit interested.

[gne1963]

The headline is quite misleading, suggesting a single "developer/hacker/coder/programmer" can make $700K a month. The reality is that they don't even name the firm that they reference as bringing in that 700k...

[apstuff]

Let's all run to that side of the boat because that's where the fish are biting.

[wallflower]

Potentially huge scalable rewards. I think nir said it well in the 'scalable vs non-scalable career thread':

"I realize how fortunate we are to work in software. It's one of very few fields where you can make a decent non-scalable income while at the same time (sometimes via the same actual product) being exposed to potentially huge scalable rewards."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506039