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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 strongpigeon »

travisgriggs wrote: post #87
strongpigeon wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Curious why you chose Dart/Flutter over Kotlin/Jetpack (not necessarily Compose though). Could you share? I hope you’ll share in the future what your usage/downloads look like as well as where you make money, between the two phone types.

Mostly because I wanted to give Flutter a shot. The instant hot reload really got me hooked. As I also said elsewhere, I was already super familiar with Dart given that I worked on Google Ads (where the front-end is built using Dart).

I'll try to share some data on the Android version compared to iOS. My gut feeling is that the rate of purchase for IAP is going to be much lower, but I think it could help with getting the app known (thus leading to more iOS downloads as well).

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

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Post by NKosmatos »

Bravo to you!!! Most of us have half started, unfinished projects and once more you show to all of us that we should make some time from our daily routines and finally just ship it ;-) I know that for US and other high paying countries 500$/mo is not much but for most countries it’s a very respectable amount. I’m a huge fan of Ben’s tinyprojects and reading his posts, stories like yours and other similar HN posts/comments give us courage and some of the missing determination.

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

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Post by egypturnash »

deathanatos wrote: post #126
egypturnash wrote: post #84

Congratulations, if you were me then your app would be covering your rent!

… where I am it's $2,700/mo. … my brother just moved to Podunksville, TN, and the rent on a 1 bd is $900/mo…

man, I left Seattle when my shitty 2br in the U got up to like $1200/mo after climbing $100/mo like clockwork every year. You are a couple orders of magnitude richer than I am if you can afford that. Which is not surprising given that I'm a lazy freelance artist who mostly draws furry porn and your last few comments indicate you're a Senior Software Engineer at a FAANG.

Now my husband and I are splitting $950 for a 3br in New Orleans. It's pretty nice once you get inured to the fact that everything you own and love in this world, including you, could be washed away in a hurricane. And the "holy shit I am a trans living in the one queer-friendly hotspot in what is otherwise a very red state" thing. The place is full of artists who could stop worrying about where most of their rent is coming from if they got $500/month coming in from somewhere.

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

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Post by mrlagmer »

Hey nice work. I have been getting into weight lifting once I hit 40 and really enjoy it. I suggest looking at stronglifts app if you want to see how to grow this. That app is great and after a week I had gone to the premium subscription.

I feel you are missing customers with the site saying that the app assumes you know how to do 5/3/1.

You should have a how to page on your site. Anyway great work congrats.

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

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Post by uuggghhhhh »

egypturnash wrote: post #133
deathanatos wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

… where I am it's $2,700/mo. … my brother just moved to Podunksville, TN, and the rent on a 1 bd is $900/mo…

man, I left Seattle when my shitty 2br in the U got up to like $1200/mo after climbing $100/mo like clockwork every year. You are a couple orders of magnitude richer than I am if you can afford that. Which is not surprising given that I'm a lazy freelance artist who mostly draws furry porn and your last few comments indicate you're a Senior Software Engineer at a FAANG. Now my husband and I are splitting $950 for a 3…

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

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Post by OJFord »

NKosmatos wrote: post #132

Bravo to you!!! Most of us have half started, unfinished projects and once more you show to all of us that we should make some time from our daily routines and finally just ship it ;-) I know that for US and other high paying countries 500$/mo is not much but for most countries it’s a very respectable amount. I’m a huge fan of Ben’s tinyprojects and reading his posts, stories like yours and other similar HN posts/com…

> I’m a huge fan of Ben’s tinyprojects and reading his posts, stories like yours and other similar HN posts/comments give us courage and some of the missing determination.

Personally, I felt that very briefly; then like crap for my years old WIPs or worse!

It's nice to read there can be decent outcomes for 'little' things; it's not so nice to see how quickly some people can turn them around (compared to oneself)!

'analysis paralysis' is my problem I think, I'm sure there are years old ideas floating around back there (that I was/am really excited about) that I still haven't quite figure out how to store the (non-existent!) user data for. It's also a curse of it being your own side project, not something with a deadline/external expectations, I suppose.

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

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Post by OJFord »

aschismatic wrote: post #129

I checked out your app because I've been wanting something like it but hadn't bothered looking at what was out there yet. Looks great! 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 (~33lb…

Alternatively (I know nothing about the domain) perhaps allow the choice for free? (Needn't be 'tell me your gender here's data sharing agreement blah blah blah', could just be a choice between '~33lb' and ..whatever the current is that's apparently more appropriate for men.)

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

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Post by strongpigeon »

conradfr wrote: post #110
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.

Personally I use FitNotes to track my workouts (5/3/1 or not) and keep (the totally not responsive) http://lift.eha-ab.ca/ open in my mobile browser.

Don't know if you have, but you should check out my online calculator then. https://fivethreeone.app/calculator

Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see in there.

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

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Post by rebelos »

yboris wrote: post #106

Thank you for sharing! I wish more people were transparent about money (to know what's possible). In my example, I created Video Hub App that sells for $5 (and $3.50 goes to a cost-effective charity). I'm averaging about $500 for over a year now (with almost $15,000 donated to charity). https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App (MIT open source)

Wow this is cool. How long did it take to build it?

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

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Post by aschismatic »

OJFord wrote: post #137
aschismatic wrote: post #129

I checked out your app because I've been wanting something like it but hadn't bothered looking at what was out there yet. Looks great! 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 (~33lb…

Alternatively (I know nothing about the domain) perhaps allow the choice for free? (Needn't be 'tell me your gender here's data sharing agreement blah blah blah', could just be a choice between '~33lb' and ..whatever the current is that's apparently more appropriate for men.)

Yeah that's what I meant, sorry if I wasn't clear!
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