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by rpedela 2578 days ago
Games, books, and other entertainment forms only provide passive income if they are hits, and it is hard, if not impossible, to predict a hit. Tools are a much better path because you don't need to guess if people will like it since there is an obvious market. You just need to execute well and sell which is also hard, but not as hard as coming up with a hit.

In other words, more like Stripe and less like Angry Birds.