[RandomWorker]

What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store. I’ve become so accustomed to thinking of releasing on Apple first that I didn’t even know you could make money through Teams addons.

[mattmaroon]

Other ecosystems are smaller (probably nothing has more consumers than the two major app stores) but often much higher intent. The same person who you have to coax into paying $1 for an iOS app won’t bat an eye at a productivity tool that costs $20/mo.

So while the platform has less reach the lower competition and higher RPUs make them great. If I were still making games I’d be looking at Steam before iOS, for instance.

[sochix]

Yep, Teams store is a hidden gem.

[xyst]

You can make money through anything that has a decent market size.

Slack addons or plugins used to be a good example before it was acquired by Salesforce.

[em-bee]

what else is there then? google, microsoft, apple, some chinese companies. can't think of anything else with a large market for apps.

[heromal]

Post is old by now, but I've had this spreadsheet bookmarked for years:https://medium.com/point-nine-news/a-landscape-of-the-major-...

[Suppafly]

roblox :) Honestly though anything with a lot of users typically either has a way to make money selling addons, or by hosting your own content related to their product, like wikis and leaderboards and such.

[bemmu]

There’s even a niche within Roblox, which is making plugins for the IDE used for making games for it, Roblox Studio. There’s a built-in marketplace where you can charge money for them.

[unmole]

Shopify, Wordpress

[Suppafly]

>What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store.

Which is very limiting considering that the Apple ecosystem, other than for phones, is the smallest one. A lot of software companies don't even target Apple at all because it's not worth it.