I tried my best to convert it from the original article.
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Woooow, this post is amazing, a lot of really amazing information, and your journey is very interesting, I also started iOS development with a background not so different from yours, but I started iOS development for a different reason, I wanted an stable ecosystem, and I got it.
I don't have as much experience as you, so I want to ask you the following:
I have a good chunk of experience developing for apple platforms, but I don't have anything that is mine, I don't know if you know what I mean, but I want to build an app to be proud of, and it is really hard for me to think about something that is worth the anual apple developer subscription.
Thank you!
Well, there are multiple ways how you can think about it.
You can scratch your own itch, and even if nobody else has the same itch, you will still enjoy the experience of using your own app that perfectly solves your problem.
Or you can tap into some trendy topic with a lot of hype around it. AI, EVs, climate change, crypto are the things that come to mind. Hopefully, the hype around the topic would be enough for you to carve out a user base that's worth serving.
Or you can tap into a market that has a lot of money in it, and find a small but valuable annoyance that you can fix. And then the money that people would pay you will hopefully keep you motivated. Markets that come to mind: developers, finance, doctors, attorneys, and so on.
Or just do it like I did — find a ridiculously popular category like calendars, text editors, or todo apps, and build something quirky in it, hoping that people would notice one day. 😄
First let me thank the developer for so openly sharing about the internals of Paper.
But let me also lovingly tease just a little. Nine years? You must be new here. BBEdit has been on the Macintosh since 1992, some 32 years ago.
Thank you!
Ha-ha. Indeed. I am just getting started. 😉