Hi Michael. Welcome to the forum!
You can absolutely live a Fastlane life by selling mobile apps. However, from experience, I would not go into the tank for a year to develop this app. Things change too fast. Tech, competitors, market, motivation levels... a year is a long time in this business.
What I'd do, is write down everything your app is gonna do. All the features. Then, number them 1 through whatever, by how absolutely vital they are to the core concept behind your app.
Then build and ship number 1. Just number 1. Make it as good as you can, but get it done and get it out. Start getting customers. Sell it for a discount price, but get people using it. Be upfront that it's a barebones version, that you're working on it and sell the vision of what the app will be soon, and make your early adopters feel special for getting in on the ground floor of this incredible life changing app.
Then work on number 2 and ship that. And so on and so on.
You can absolutely live a Fastlane life by selling mobile apps. However, from experience, I would not go into the tank for a year to develop this app. Things change too fast. Tech, competitors, market, motivation levels... a year is a long time in this business.
What I'd do, is write down everything your app is gonna do. All the features. Then, number them 1 through whatever, by how absolutely vital they are to the core concept behind your app.
Then build and ship number 1. Just number 1. Make it as good as you can, but get it done and get it out. Start getting customers. Sell it for a discount price, but get people using it. Be upfront that it's a barebones version, that you're working on it and sell the vision of what the app will be soon, and make your early adopters feel special for getting in on the ground floor of this incredible life changing app.
Then work on number 2 and ship that. And so on and so on.