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by xyst 410 days ago
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.

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