I have been reading about the DApps and they are definitely awesome! However, how does the developer make money if they need to pay an initial fee to put the DApp sidechain on the network?
App (or Dapp) developers think like a business owners. The initial fee that developers pay to launch Dapps on Lisk will be minuscule to the amount of profits they can generate from the sales of their Dapps.
For example, if a developer makes a VPN Dapp like HideMyAss or a team chat Dapp like Slack, this is the kind of money they can make:

