HACKER Q&A
📣 fuzztester

Have you made money from desktop apps? Please share what info you can.


Have you made money from desktop apps? Please share what info you can.


  👤 bruce511 Accepted Answer ✓
I started writing desktop apps for DOS 35 years ago. Transitioned to Windows in the mid 90s. Started adding serious Web interfaces in 2006.

Unfortunately though your question is too vague for me to respond to in detail.

In general, I'd say that selling software for any platform is much harder than writing the software. I recommend finding customers before coding.

Second, I'd recommend being laser focused. Decide what the program will do. Stick to that. Don't get trapped in the "if it just did x I would buy it" messaging.

Too often I see programs that are difficult to explain, and have weird interfaces because the developer didn't say no to himself as feature creep happened.


👤 kirkarg
Chatgpt API wrapper tailored for the company, all in vb.net. 7 months and counting. So far I'm very happy with it, but it is not a stable product because of the nature of the API

👤 fuzztester
you could share info on the domain the app is for, the tech, the issues and challenges, the customers, the learnings, the sales and profit or loss, or anything else.

👤 fuzztester
Thanks in advance.