Any chance for Ethiopian developer to make it online?
I am a programmer in a government agency in Ethiopia and I have been
writing web based applications for some time now. But recently I have been
obsessed with the idea of writing small web based applications for
small/medium business as my own business. So I developed an application as
MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and gonne out and spoken to a couple of
potential customers. The application is a basic income and expense
tracking system with invoice in its center. And with my meeting with
potential customers I have already found people who are willing to use the
system for free with a promise to find me 2 future paying customers each.
According to the promise, the future customers would pay me 2500Birr (i.e
125USD). These were super awesome deals to me, if I get 2 paying customers
for my applications I will end up owning 250USD, and that is my salary. I
was feeling happy already until I started reading HN, reddit programmer
and other success stories in internet. I was constantly reading about
these amazing pricing schemes, and how I could easily not just get that
amount once but make it my monthly income. But to my frustration we don't
have any kind of online currency in the whole country here in Ethiopia so
I have to resort to my original idea as these all making online stories
seem a fairy tale to me. So I am here to ask the programmer stack exchange
community if there is any way to make the online money, selling my
applications to customers outside my country, without online currency?
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