The hardest part is going to be keeping active inventory numbers from small businesses.
Most small business owners are not going to go through the headache of letting your app know when they have changes in inventory, especially if you expect them to do it for free (DoorDash will often pay hesitant small business to sign up to be on its service, for example).
If you’re planning to use APIs to connect your backend DB to every small business POS system, your backend team better be determined. Are they going to go to each business individually to troubleshoot when things aren’t working? What if a business is using an obscure POS system that charges ridiculous fees for every API call; are you paying for that?
Have you built an app for a business before? How successful has it been?
I don’t doubt the idea, I just know that as someone that does app development as a hobby you’re looking at something rather expensive to maintain properly over the long run, and I’m not seeing a clear path to monetize it that will subsidize it.
The hardest part is going to be keeping active inventory numbers from small businesses.
Most small business owners are not going to go through the headache of letting your app know when they have changes in inventory, especially if you expect them to do it for free (DoorDash will often pay hesitant small business to sign up to be on its service, for example).
If you’re planning to use APIs to connect your backend DB to every small business POS system, your backend team better be determined. Are they going to go to each business individually to troubleshoot when things aren’t working? What if a business is using an obscure POS system that charges ridiculous fees for every API call; are you paying for that?
Have you built an app for a business before? How successful has it been?
I don’t doubt the idea, I just know that as someone that does app development as a hobby you’re looking at something rather expensive to maintain properly over the long run, and I’m not seeing a clear path to monetize it that will subsidize it.