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> Cartoons? Cycling? DIY?

Any of those works. You don't need to be that good at programming if you can figure out a piece of software that one or other of those really needs, and the size of the thing you have to make can be surprisingly small - I mean patio11 got rich off a bingo card creator, just by figuring out a small thing that a certain class of people really needed, making it, and marketing it well.




BCC and AR were pretty modest successes.


I thought you said you sold it for high six figures, or did I misread? Maybe just my lower-middle-class background but that qualifies as rich to me.


If you follow this link you find that BCC reportedly sold for $57,000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602092


Ok, that's an order of magnitude below what I was thinking. Sorry for the mistake.




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