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Solo software development 2017-09-16 11:29:03 Post No. 18729261
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Asking here because /g/ is a consumer electronics board.
Is it possible to make a living selling software as a one-man operation anymore? I don't mean making some meme startup and trying to grab VC money, I mean building actual useful software and selling it. Probably to businesses because no one buys software for personal use anymore, unless its some huge CAD program or something.
It's appealing to me, but I don't want to waste time trying if I'm always going to be beat by some bigger company with fifty times the resources I have. I guess it really boils down to finding some niche that hasn't been exploited yet? But I really have no idea how to do that.
Should I just give up and get a normal job?
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You could do it, but you're very much limited in project size if you're on your own and have to deal with the business side yourself too. You could build stuff for very small companies, but you'd need to be very cheap to outbid generic software or cloud services.
Make it easy for yourself, just get a normal job.
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https://www.upwork.com/o/jobs/browse/c/web-mobile-software-dev/
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Your best bet as a small operation on the short term is to become a reseller of some other company's software, one that has extensibility options. But you become a salesman by nature as well as a developer.
I'd personally just become a contractor and sign on for one year contracts or whatever. Been considering this for a while now as a wage cuck.
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