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An excellent example of the hacker-ethos failing.

A decade ago, you could create a reasonable app in a month and make money. Now, the low-hanging fruit is gone.

This app would get you kicked out of any poker-game I have ever been to, is over-priced ($20 for a glorified piece of paper), was marketed in a way that got the creator banned from Reddit, and made almost no money.

That type of outcome might not be the best that is left in the field of "ideas that an app developer can do in one month" today, but it probably will be soon.




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