{"id":9279,"date":"2014-07-31T20:03:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2014-07-31T20:03:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T00:03:54","slug":"making-money-on-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/making-money-on-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Money on Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volleythat.com\/why-not-combinator-podcast\/2014\/7\/29\/making-money-on-apps\">Max Child<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.volleythat.com\/why-not-combinator-podcast\/2014\/7\/29\/making-money-on-apps\"><p>So how do you do that? Three ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Charge them for something that helps them make money.<\/li>\n<li>Charge them for an emotional experience.<\/li>\n<li>Don&rsquo;t charge them, charge <em>someone else<\/em> for helping <em>that someone else<\/em> make money.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So what to do if you&rsquo;re an indie developer? Pick a strategy. Most seem to be going with #2, and that&rsquo;s fine. But I highly recommend you charge $0 up-front and build an emotional connection strong enough to charge more later.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Child: So how do you do that? Three ways: Charge them for something that helps them make money. Charge them for an emotional experience. Don&rsquo;t charge them, charge someone else for helping that someone else make money. [&#8230;] So what to do if you&rsquo;re an indie developer? Pick a strategy. Most seem to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,31],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ios"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9280,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions\/9280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}