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  1. OverByte

    is mobile game a good business?

    INTRO 
    To bring this conversation back to the OPs question. Mobile apps can be a fastlane business, I am arguing that it is perhaps a harder path to gain success. I think the probabilities of success are higher with other business models, just look on this forum, there are plenty of success stories, I...
  2. OverByte

    is mobile game a good business?

    INTRO 
    Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Shopify all serve B2B also Amazon AWS (and also I suppose it's core platform which provides an ecosystem for other businesses, also allowing for ppc, and other services). These are industry titans. MJs limos business was also b2b I believe, his customers...
  3. OverByte

    is mobile game a good business?

    INTRO 
    You can argue the semantics of entertainment as a need vs a desire that's not the point. In B2B sales often the value proposition can be very clear and easier to validate if the problem/need exists. It's much harder to know if someone will consider something fun. Regardless of your experience...
  4. OverByte

    is mobile game a good business?

    INTRO 
    Is your goal to build a business to achieve freedom or is it to follow your passion of creating a game. If the former then in my opinion there are much better ways to make money. A game is not a need it is a desire and is much harder to convince a consumer of the value proposition than say...
  5. OverByte

    Launching a programmer-focused SaaS tool

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    Also, as a programmer who has worked with many programmers I can tell you that many programmers have an aversion to paying for software, not to discourage you but something to keep in mind as you are marketing. Obviously this doesn't hold for all programmers, I'm not in that bucket, but a lot...
  6. OverByte

    Launching a programmer-focused SaaS tool

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    If it solves a problem I would try to find posts on stack overflow which mention the problem and plug there. Stack overflow is probably the most trafficked site by programmers and they are on their actively seeking solutions. I'm not sure if they have ads but that may be a venue as well. I...
  7. OverByte

    What have you succeeded with? B2B vs B2C

    I've had more success with B2C in that I developed a profitable side business (low thousands profit definitely not massive success), however I like the idea of B2B more since I think the value proposition is much simpler (if you can show you can increase a business' profitability with a product...
  8. OverByte

    24 Years old: QUIT six-figure Job, Launched two Businesses, Over $25M+ Sales

    GOLD! 
    @G_Alexander just read this thread... Wow & Congrats! You killed it through persistent effort. I had a question for you / others in the e-com space. When you launch a new product and it doesn't have any reviews yet do you have any strategies to increase trust in the product & get initial reviews?
  9. OverByte

    Building a video games business from scratch

    EXECUTION 
    Perhaps you missed it but I stated in my message that it assumed you only showed the ad once per user session. Understood if you show multiple impressions per session the number of users is lower. My point was to figure out the numbers you need to hit revenue goals. Sent from my Pixel using...
  10. OverByte

    Building a video games business from scratch

    EXECUTION 
    So with the cpm posted above 2-10 for your network that means best case you could make $10 per thousand users per day (if you showed them 1 ad). Do you think you could get 1000 user per day? This is very difficult. This is why I say focus on iap, ad revenue is peanuts unless you have massive...
  11. OverByte

    Building a video games business from scratch

    EXECUTION 
    This is exactly what I did when I released my game. I do like this approach as it shouldn’t piss off uses as much as interstitial ads and gives you at least some revenue from users who won’t pay you directly.
  12. OverByte

    Building a video games business from scratch

    EXECUTION 
    What CPMs can you get for ads? That will tell you how many DAU you would need to pull in your revenue goals. My guess it’s a lot. Referencing flappy bird is naive, that app had millions of DAU if you hit that level any monetization will work.
  13. OverByte

    Building a video games business from scratch

    EXECUTION 
    I would suggest not adding ads until you have a popular game else you won’t make any money and just piss off initial users, if the game catches on just release an update with ads if that is your monetization strategy. In my opinion the smarter bet is to ditch ads and focus on IAP. Seem to be a...
  14. OverByte

    Software Business and Technical Debt

    My two cents. Be as scrappy as you can starting out and get sales, this is your number one priority as an entrepreneur. You can use revenue to hire better devs and fix tech debt later. Yes it will be more expensive but that is irrelevant, no point making something exquisitely engineered that no...
  15. OverByte

    Building a video games business from scratch

    EXECUTION 
    What are the dislikes for Unity? This is what I used to develop the game I mentioned and I was pretty impressed with the tool. It's got a lot going on at first but pretty intuitive once you get into it. It also has a ton of assets and the community is very large (I'd guess the largest of any...
  16. OverByte

    Building a video games business from scratch

    EXECUTION 
    Interested to see how your progress goes. I noticed two things from your original post. 1 - you seemed to imply you are doing everything yourself - programming, graphics, design, marketing... and 2 - that you felt progress is too slow. I actually built a game a few years ago for mobile and...
  17. OverByte

    Progress Thread - End Of Shared Hosting

    EXECUTION 
    Why wouldn't you use a VPS if just starting out and don't need scale? It would cost you like 10-15 per month. It would be trivial to deploy a node app. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
  18. OverByte

    Progress Thread - End Of Shared Hosting

    EXECUTION 
    What is the actual need you're solving to business owners? Software developers understand why shared hosting isn't ideal but you said the market isn't software developers. What's the pain point you are solving for a business that isn't developers? You mention your product is most similar to...
  19. OverByte

    I’ve studied Psychology, Neuroscience and Human Behavior for 10+ Years. AMA.

    HOT! 
    How has your study of pyschology impacted your strategies for selling? Have you sold products using insights gleaned from your studies? What are these most profitable insights? Are you a practitioner or a theorist? Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
  20. OverByte

    Who to hire to build an app?

    I'm also in software development. All I can say here is that you get what you pay for. I'd be wary to hire an intern if you aren't technical yourself. How do you know they aren't just producing shit? The more complex the application the more the risk. Is this handling user data, how is security...

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