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Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

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Re: Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

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Post by csunbird »

strongpigeon wrote: post #7
reducesuffering wrote: post #5

Congrats! What does your tech stack look like? How long did it take you?

The app is written in Flutter. There is no backend except that I use Firebase Crashlytics to catch bugs that make it to releases. The web calculator is built using ReactJS and uses Firebase hosting (still low enough traffic to be under the free tier)

If there is no backend, and also if you are not collecting any personal data, maybe you can add a “privacy friendly, your personal data is not collected” marketing section as well. Although I am not sure if your users would care about that.

Re: Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

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Post by allenu »

Well done! $500/mo, though not crazy money, is significant.

How did you market your app and how long did it take you to build out the app?

I've built an app as well while I was doing my regular day job and recently quit the day job, mostly due to being burned out working in big tech as well.

During my break from work, I decided to try to get my app sales up, but it's challenging. (During my best month, I think I got up to $200/mo but it's more like $100/mo right now.) As many others before me have found, marketing is the key, and I'm still learning that game. So, $500/mo is really good stuff.

That said, building the app and making my users happy is something that is incredibly gratifying, and something that was missing in my previous 9-5.

Re: Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

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Post by strongpigeon »

TameAntelope wrote: post #8

Congrats! I am always super excited/impressed by people who can take something all the way like this, just because I know how monumentally hard finishing any project is. I'm at least decently familiar with the first half of "end-to-end" but don't have a lot of experience in the back half. Was there something cool/unintuitive you learned while having to figure out how to market and support your weightlifting app that…

Everybody says it, but the marketing part of it matters a lot. As a shape rotator, I struggle with putting myself out there and really have to force myself to "just do it".

The app store is a big, noisy marketplace, so having other channels to get people to try your app and give you ratings is crucial. That really help me get through the initial wall and now my app is showing up pretty high in the search result.

Re: Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

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Post by 999900000999 »

strongpigeon wrote: post #7
reducesuffering wrote: post #5

Congrats! What does your tech stack look like? How long did it take you?

The app is written in Flutter. There is no backend except that I use Firebase Crashlytics to catch bugs that make it to releases. The web calculator is built using ReactJS and uses Firebase hosting (still low enough traffic to be under the free tier)

Yay Flutter!

Any reason you had to use ReactJS embedded in Flutter, I imagine you could of done that with Dart

Re: Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

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Post by strongpigeon »

RankingMember wrote: post #9

Congrats on the success! Any chance of an Android version of that app? I'm glad you made a 5/3/1-specific app; I've always had to shoehorn 5/3/1 into some other "Build your own routine" apps and it's always been clunky at best.

I'm actively working on the Android version. I'm waiting on some Material 3 component for Flutter to be done [0], but it's almost ready to test!

[0] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/91605

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