I saw a discussion about shareware which led me to this article: http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/articles/why-do-people-register-shareware.html

which is quite old (1990's), but still something in there caught my attention. This person claims that he spent two days to develop a product (saying it wasn't "a significant investment" of his time) and it generated some $34K in a year. So I was thinking, well if he develops a product like this every two days, in a year he could have 100 of these, even if he only worked weekdays.

Unless I'm missing something, that would be $3.4M for a year's worth of work!

I realize times may have changed a bit, but don't those numbers seem to be completely in the realm of fantasy? Did that person get really lucky or is he some sort of marketing genius?

Thanks!