#1767 - Solitaire Game App Earns $10,000/Month
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
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After a failed startup attempt, a developer revisits an old solitaire game he made as a side project. It now brings in a large amount of passive income every month.
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| 0:34.8 | Have you ever played solitaire on a computer or your phone? |
| 0:38.9 | There's a pretty classic game, also known as Patience in the UK, some other parts of the world. |
| 0:43.9 | And no one owns the rights to it. It was invented long ago. Nobody knows exactly when and by home. |
| 0:49.6 | So anyone can make and sell their own version of it. Which is exactly what you're going to hear |
| 0:53.4 | about today. In this story, after a failed attempt at growing a startup, this developer revisits |
| 0:59.4 | an old solitaire game he made as a side project. Now this game now brings in $10,000 a month |
| 1:05.3 | in largely passive income. Pretty cool, right? Now to make this happen, he had to make a few changes |
| 1:11.0 | to how the app functioned. He actually went from app to website. So I'll tell you exactly what |
| 1:15.4 | those changes were, as well as his clearly successful strategy of how to identify profitable apps |
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