Killer App is a much better bet

[motoukenin]

Expanding on your answer.

The average app in the app store makes less than $3k per year.

And would take several hundred hours of hard work to build, market and support.

A "Killer App" - Angry Birds, Clash of Clans, Spotify or whatever would take many thousands of hours with a large team of people.

For example, Clash of Clans which generated $2.5M per day in 2013, for SuperCell ( who were founded in 2010 and sold for $2.1B in 2013) was developed by a team of 6 people but they had $12M in funding and were part of a bigger company.

So in short .... killer apps do not just appear ... they are carefully built and marketed by large professional teams.

Sure , but reading the article seems that this 30 year old Vietnamese lady has more of a marketing skill than anything else , she was involved in frozen yogurt for several years and could not find a way to scale the business , then she got involved in a screen share app that turned over a million dollars which admittedly was marketed via download , after that something that looks more like a Skype rip off that allows people to collaborate, not exactly the sort of app that going to get large downloads so I presume the skill here was in marketing this to big corp.

[AtW]

An app that kills Russians? Seems a bit extreme and there might be some comeback from certain circles.

Works on all stupid enough to try it -

[TykeMerc]

Russian Killer App - 6 to 1.

An app that kills Russians? Seems a bit extreme and there might be some comeback from certain circles.

[AtW]

Russian Killer App - 6 to 1.

[tomtomagain]

£50 on the UK Lottery gets you the same odds as the App with none of the effort.

Expanding on your answer.

The average app in the app store makes less than $3k per year.

And would take several hundred hours of hard work to build, market and support.

A "Killer App" - Angry Birds, Clash of Clans, Spotify or whatever would take many thousands of hours with a large team of people.

For example, Clash of Clans which generated $2.5M per day in 2013, for SuperCell ( who were founded in 2010 and sold for $2.1B in 2013) was developed by a team of 6 people but they had $12M in funding and were part of a bigger company.

So in short .... killer apps do not just appear ... they are carefully built and marketed by large professional teams.

[motoukenin]

Anyone know if all these (fairly) recent Lotto changes have increased their profits as intended?

I pretty much stopped buying lines when they doubled in price from £1 to £2, and I believe the odds of a jackpot are now even lower than before.

Yep

Big Changes Shrink Chance Of Lottery Win

14 million to one to 45 million to one

[NickFitz]

Anyone know if all these (fairly) recent Lotto changes have increased their profits as intended?

I pretty much stopped buying lines when they doubled in price from £1 to £2, and I believe the odds of a jackpot are now even lower than before.

The changes to the odds and so forth don't happen until October: https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/lotto-changes

[OwlHoot]

Anyone know if all these (fairly) recent Lotto changes have increased their profits as intended?

I pretty much stopped buying lines when they doubled in price from £1 to £2, and I believe the odds of a jackpot are now even lower than before.

[DaveB]

Vietnam's start-up queen - BBC News

Euro Lotery 77 million to one
UK Lottery 43 million to one
Killer App 1.44 million to one

£50 on the UK Lottery gets you the same odds as the App with none of the effort.

[motoukenin]

Vietnam's start-up queen - BBC News

Euro Lotery 77 million to one
UK Lottery 43 million to one
Killer App 1.44 million to one