tech-company, mobile-apps, game-studio, gaming, globalI am a game developer and have been developing backend software for multiplayer games with a company. I now want to release a full fledged gaming backend as a service so that people can integrate their games with my product to make their games multiplayer. Something like Fresvii and Yahoo Games.
But I want to understand if there is market for this? Will individual developers or companies pay me to use this or do they believe in developing their own infrastructure?
I would say your product would work in the individual developer market. I doubt game companies themselves will buy it since that trend is to go in-house for most of their operations. But for the individual game developers looking to easily make the game multiplayer, leaderboard, and social connectivity you may be on something.
A quick way to test this would be to contact a mix batch of your prospective markets and simply ask:
If you get good answers, then build the MVP.
I am a developer as well. And I can tell you go for it if:
You will hear dozens of pro and dozens of cons ideas. But you will never know before you try. I have seen too many silly projects ended up as 1M+ industry, so saying no would be silly.
So once you finished the software, put it alive and invest in marketing. You do not need large companies so make living out of it.
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