Is dropshipping still worth starting?

Worth starting, rarely worth staying in. It is still the cheapest way to find out whether anybody wants what you are selling, and one of the hardest ways to make a living once they do.

What decides it

The economics have moved: advertising costs more than it did, and the margin dropshipping leaves you has not grown to match. Treat the first six months as paid research rather than as a business, and hold stock on whatever proves it sells.

The part that gets skipped

Dropshipping’s hard part was never finding a product — it is that you do not control delivery, and delivery is what a customer remembers.

The margin is thin by design, so the whole model depends on cheap traffic. When advertising gets more expensive, dropshipping stops working before anything else does.

A dropshipper who survives past the first year almost always stops dropshipping — they start holding stock for their best sellers, because that is where the margin is.

Where an app fits

An app is worth building once people buy from you a second time. Most dropshipping stores never reach that point, which is why the honest answer here is usually ‘not yet’.