- Hey, this is Overpass Insights,
my name is Eric, and I make apps.
Now today I wanna talk about how I've been inspired
to make more from my apps.
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- All right, so today I'm coming to from The Ridgeway,
which is an old Roman road not very far
from where the office is, and it's a brisk, cold, windy day.
In fact, I hope the wind is not too strong,
and I hope you guys can hear me okay.
So anyway, last week I did a video
where I talked about my revenue for 2019,
and I just sort of laid it all out there in the pivot table,
and I did it last year and I did it again this year.
And one of the things I asked was whether or not,
if anybody wanted to put what their revenue was,
put it in the comments,
and I was really surprised by what a lot of people put.
Because I thought I was doing okay,
but I thought I'm probably doing about
as good as I could do,
maybe I could do a little bit better.
But a lot of people put in the comments,
were making a lot more than I was, which,
and I think one person even said,
or it might've been via an email saying,
I learned a lot from watching your videos,
and the encouragement of doing your videos
has helped me get up to that level,
and it made me feel amazing, it made me feel great.
It also made me feel like, dude,
I'm not doing enough, right?
One of the reasons I put the video out was so
that people who were getting started could see that,
yes, it is possible to make money with apps.
But part of it, part of the mental thing,
you start to think, well, maybe, you know,
maybe I've kinda done all that I could.
Maybe, you know, well, you know,
one of these days I need to get back
to putting some more stuff out there.
I need to get back to giving these things.
But seeing other people's revenue,
seeing that people are doing so well, with apps that,
they're not Uber, they're not Instagram,
they're just apps, apps that people are using.
And there's a lot of,
there's a lot of articles lately
about how most of the apps that are downloaded,
or the top 10, the Uber's, the Facebook's,
all that kind of stuff,
but it is still possible, right,
despite the bad news, right?
I think one of the things I'd like to point out
is that most of you guys have never heard
of any of my apps, right?
Unless you've heard about it from me,
or maybe you saw the channel, or maybe you checked them out,
but you probably didn't find the apps first
and then find me.
You probably found me through YouTube, right?
Because my apps are, they're not super popular,
they're not mainstream, but they still bring in revenue.
In fact, they should bring in more.
So, all right, so I'm adding a late New Year's resolution,
I'm gonna, I gotta put out another app this year,
at least one.
I gotta do, I gotta do a bunch, man.
It's been a while since I've put out anything new,
and it's embarrassing, really.
So anyway, I just wanted to say, for those of you guys who,
if you haven't seen the app revenue for 2019 video,
or if you haven't read the comments, go back and read the,
in fact don't even watch the video, read the comments.
The comments themself on that video are so encouraging
and they're so inspiring that it makes,
dude, I need to do more, I need to more.
And thanks so much, everybody who shared,
and for those of you guys who aren't making
as much as you hope you would,
I hope this, you know,
I hope you're gonna do better this year.
I'm very optimistic about 2020, even now,
even now that we're into it, and I've taken a few knocks,
you know, I'm not gonna lie to you,
but I'm still very optimistic about it.
Thank you, everybody who's contributed.
Thank you, everybody who's commented on that video.
And this year's gonna be great,
it's gonna be great for all of us.
Anyway, let me know what you guys think, let me,
actually, what are your resolutions?
How many apps are you gonna put out this year?
Are you gonna put out anything new
or are you gonna fix the ones that you have?
'Cause I think I need to put out something new
and I've got a few ideas,
which I will follow on with when I do them.
God, I gotta get off my butt,
stop doing so much client stuff.
Anyway, that is it for today,
I'll talk to you guys again tomorrow.
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