Yep, and that's what I love about software. If you build and sell something on your own, pretty much everything is profit. You don't have that in many industries.
As someone creating software in that industry, I agree. Although my team recently made a large dent via a selling a chunk of our software to an industry leader.
You can have the best performing software in the world and it is still worth exactly nothing if you can't sell. The reality is that cheaply developed software that sells well is usually good business.
That's a pessimistic and limiting attitude, sir. Software is a great business because it's easy to copy; analogously, so is the web because of its scale. Most of the work goes into developing, setting up the system. The rest of the work goes into watching and maintaining it while you either build the next thing or sit on a beach. If the latter can be monetized, that's arguably a valid way of generating passive income.
I think you misinterpreted my words. I mean, if you want to make money from software you should try to make money from the product you are building, not from services you (or everything else in theory) can give about the product.
So you can focus on your product and make it better and better.
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