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At first I thought that if I made a bunch of $0.99 apps that were all pretty nice that they would eventually start to make me some decent passive income. However, after publishing five $0.99 applications in the the Apple App Store, I'm finding that I make around $5/day, which is basically nothing.

Should I invest time into creating an even better app, hire a designer, spend money on PR and marketing, and then keep spending time updating/managing that app? Or should I continue to produce more applications solo?

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Voting to close. How can anyone accurately answer this question? In essence, you're asking for a prediction of the future. – GlenH7 Oct 24 '12 at 14:53
According to our FAQ, business concerns are on-topic here. I'm not sure why this question is receiving down votes, close votes, and flags. The ultimate question seems to be rather useful - should I focus on making smaller apps more complex apps that evolve over time that require more skills (perhaps from other people)? – Thomas Owens♦ Oct 24 '12 at 14:56
Thank you. As a developer, this is something that I feel only other indie devs could answer. I figured this would have been an appropriate place to ask. You're exactly right in the synopsis of what I'm asking. – user69860 Oct 24 '12 at 15:05
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I'm aware of some research/calculations/studies done on earnings of developers based on things such as time in market and price of the application. Unfortunately, I can't easily find these reports. – Thomas Owens♦ Oct 24 '12 at 15:07
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@user69860 The problem with your question is that it reads too much as career advice, which is off topic (career advice questions can't be definitively answered). If this gets closed, please ask a question on our Meta site on how to further improve it, and make it more of a business concerns question, than a career advice one. – Yannis Rizos♦ Oct 24 '12 at 15:10
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closed as off topic by thorsten müller, GlenH7, JeffO, StuperUser, gnat Oct 24 '12 at 15:13

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