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Congrats! It's about the same I make with Android with my app (a graphing calculator) [1]. Everyone says on Android you can earn less, I'm curious what's your experience will be. [1] https://androidcalculator.com/
Very good. Congrats. I made an app 2 years ago and make around 10,000$/month currently with it. Keep going!
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…
The app took me about 300-400 hours to build. Regarding marketing, I've said it elsewhere in the thread but here it is again:
- Created an instagram account for the app and started following some tags. I liked post on the tags and started following some users to get them to look at my profile. Got about 150 downloads from that.
- Made a 5/3/1 Calculator website. The goal was to make something useful to boost the SEO of my domain. What really ended up happening is the calculator ranks usually number 2 on Google and then users see the link to the app in there and click on it. Got about 200 downloads from that.
- Apple Search Ads gives you $100 credit. Got a bunch of downloads with this
- I used Bing Ads credits but wasn't too impressed with what I was getting from there though
>I can't pretend to have derived any life lesson that applies to everybody from this Part of what attracted me to software engineering in the first place was an interest in "how things work", and being able to move between levels of abstraction (e.g. I know how IP, DNS, TCP, HTTP and JSON works, but most of the time I can just treat it as "sending objects"). So it was a bit of a eureka moment for me to realize that r…
And closing with...
> Bookkeeping can be as annoying as debugging, but in the end I'm really grateful that I understand how each detail works.
... hits home for me, haha. Never thought I was going to understand - let alone like - bookkeeping. What maybe helped, was me making my own bookkeeping app, it also forced me to understand the rules.
Congratulations, if you were me then your app would be covering your rent!
… my brother just moved to Podunksville, TN, and the rent on a 1 bd is $900/mo…
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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.
> ...get people to ... give you ratings is crucial. How were you able to promote this? Thanks.
Good job! I know exactly the feeling. I'll once again shamelessly plug my project, since it's vaguely relevant. I'm making about 200 USD/month by selling watermark removals on https://gifmemes.io . What I've learnt is that I'm very bad at marketing & design and will much rather spend hours programming useless features. For example I've spent like 10 hours getting an wasm ffmpeg converter of gifs to mp4s and webms, wh…
I don't find that silly at all. At most it's a fun example of price discrimination. A fairly big online-only florist in the UK (Bloom & Wild) for example does something similar, if you enter a valid voucher code but it's only for new customers, it pops up telling you that 'but click here to apply 10% off instead' (where the voucher might've been for 25 or whatever). Clever I think - stops you thinking 'oh sod it' and shopping around.
One thing I noticed though is that both barbell weight customization and plate customization is coupled together in one purchase. I feel like you may want to separate barbell weight into a free customization option because barbells made specifically for women tend to be lighter (~33lbs). By charging for barbell weight customization, you're inadvertently creating a difference in experience between men and women (for the base app, no purchases).