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The future of the Instapaper iPhone app

marco:

Right now, I face a fork in the road: do I continue iterating and improving Instapaper.app, or do I start making other applications and hope for multiple income streams?

Some public thinking about my long-term strategy.

Seems like you have many options:

  1. Work more hours.
  2. Train “somebody” to update the app i.e. outsource maintenance and spend 20% of your time creating / implementing new features.
  3. Sell the app and invest time and money in new endeavour.
  4. Spend more on marketing of current app. to increase revenue
  5. Pick best new app opprtunity and start spending 20% on that.

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    Some public thinking about...long-term strategy.
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