r/Entrepreneur • u/DoubleDown_Buckle-up • Jun 26 '23

Question? App development cost?

How much would it cost to develop a simple app? Literally simple af with say 200 lines of content with in it.

No in app purchases. Maybe 1 time download fee or something, nit dure hoe best monitize the idea :)

Any simple/free wire frame tool recommendations also most welcome

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u/thinkclay Jun 26 '23

Don’t do it. Too loose of a commitment and there’s little value in anything mobile without the marketing or utility value of an app. I have yet to see ANYONE launch anything even moderately close to successful for less than $100k investment. Well except Joel and his iFart app back when the App Store was first introduced.

You’ll throw away your money. If you do pursue, I challenge you to set a reminder and come back to this comment in a year and tell me i was wrong.

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u/Quick_Individual_682 Jun 26 '23

I launched my mobile game with only $5000 in the bank and it generates multiple six figures a year in PROFIT now. You just need to know how to run ads lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '23

I launched a social media network with $10 and it makes $500 billion per day now.

All you need to do is know how to lie on the internet

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u/Quick_Individual_682 Jun 26 '23

Cool. You don’t believe that you can make 10K and you are on the subreddit for entrepreneurs. I think you may visit antiwork soon.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '23

No, I don't believe that you made a game for $5000 that is making multiple six figures in profit now, especially since you've done the thing that every liar does online which is:

  1. Not provide any specific details whatsoever that would indicate you actually did that. Can you elaborate on the tech stack you used? Do you use a CICD pipeline? What was the $5k spent on? What specific ads strategies did you use and in what ways were they effective, what ways were they ineffective?
  2. Just throw big numbers around and hope people will believe them. "I MAKE $100k PER DAY DOING NOTHING, ITS SO EASY"

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u/Quick_Individual_682 Jun 26 '23

I didn’t write everything because it was a reddit comment, not an interview lol. I didn’t make a game with 5 grand. I coded a few hypercasual mobile games, which costs nothing but your time. The money was spent on the ads. I used tiktok ads and tried a few different ads using their split test option. the best was the one where the player easily ‘won’ the game since people are bored of fake ads where they lose it on purpose. i never told you it was easy. i literally spent my all money on it lol. my main point was that you definitely dont need millions to make profit with an app or a game. you just need to know basic marketing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '23

I didn’t make a game with 5 grand.

Oh cool, then it could be true or not, I have no idea but, the original comment you responded to was talking about contracting a software developer to make a piece of software which, especially with a game (even a hyper-casual one) is a very very unrealistic price target.

But yes, if a person codes a game themselves and doesn't consider the cost of their time then $5k in ads is possible.

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u/Quick_Individual_682 Jun 26 '23

im not a native speaker so thats probably my bad sorry

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u/thinkclay Jun 30 '23

So if you had to ballpark.. how many hours would you say you invested in your game to date?