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Side Hustle School

#2701 - Failure Friday: The Mobile App Marketplace Misfire

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Small Business, Business, Side Hustle

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear about an idea for a mobile app marketplace aimed at earning through App Store referrals. Just one problem: it’s very difficult to actually earn referral fees!

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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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Fuelling mischief with petty flu. The Mobile App Marketplace misfire.

1:12.8

Let's hear today about this idea for a mobile app marketplace aimed at earning through

1:17.1

App Store referrals, and it just encountered a small problem, which is that it's actually very difficult to earn

1:24.0

referral fees meaning that this isn't a great business idea. It might be a good

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