<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>debacle</author><text>One thing that I really notice a lot as I get older is that so many people say it isn&amp;#x27;t possible to make money anymore, early adopters had it easy, etc. People say this about apps and startups and the like.&lt;p&gt;I tell myself these same things sometimes, but then I have to check myself - it is actually easier to make &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; more money on an app these days than ever before. What is bigger is the risk proposition, which is why people tell themselves that success is entirely about luck - if your own skill doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, there&amp;#x27;s no reason to try, and if you try and don&amp;#x27;t succeed it isn&amp;#x27;t your fault.&lt;p&gt;This is a very real trap and I think in the reddit age (where if you aren&amp;#x27;t a cynic by 15 you&amp;#x27;re behind the curve) it is a mental virus. The world still rewards value, even if it takes some time. The people clamoring that it doesn&amp;#x27;t are doing so because they want to believe that it isn&amp;#x27;t their fault they didn&amp;#x27;t succeed.&lt;p&gt;You need to be willing to emotionally and mentally invest yourself in something with a reasonable chance of failure or you will never, ever succeed. The people that you see who you are smarter than that have succeeded haven&amp;#x27;t gotten there because of luck - they&amp;#x27;ve gotten there because they tried. Luck just helped.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store</title><url>https://medium.com/@carlosribas/how-hourstracker-earns-five-figures-a-month-on-the-app-store-85a20bb972eb</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mherrmann</author><text>Cool article but I think things are very different now. If the author launched the same app today, I think he&amp;#x27;d have a much harder time getting to that revenue, even in 6 years. The time when the App Store opened was great for the first developers there but things have changed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store</title><url>https://medium.com/@carlosribas/how-hourstracker-earns-five-figures-a-month-on-the-app-store-85a20bb972eb</url></story>