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Six Figures in 6 days

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Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by coldtea »

kyran_adept wrote: post #7

As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

Yeah. On the other hand we had 1/10 less mallware, faster UIs, updates for older devices up to several years, and other small things since day one which Android still doesn't have :-)

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by leppr »

eertami wrote: post #3
pulse7 wrote: post #2

He writes "97% profit margins". How is that possible if AppStore takes 30%? EDIT: This seems to be outside AppStore.

It isn't an App Store app, he's taking payment on his own site and delivering PNGs to an email address. Not sure how I feel about the article. Kind of reads like those "I got stupid lucky this one time, so can you!" fluff pieces at best, and at worst is just further advertisement/marketing for the icon pack.

It is advertisement for his "Notion to Website" product. It's nicely done, because this is the first thing I got from the article, and I think so will most entrepreneur types reading it. The whole point is "I made $100k from being able to quickly spin up a website + payment system at the right time".

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Post by oefrha »

kyran_adept wrote: post #7

As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

Is the average iPhone owner willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Probably not.

Can you find 3626 iPhone owners willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Sure you can. In fact I bet you can find 3626 Android owners willing to part with $28 too.

The key to this success story is this:

> Then, MKBHD happened.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by querez »

m12k wrote: post #11

All I'm seeing is a completely black page. Wonder if it's uBlock origin, Firefox, or macOS that the page doesn't play nice with.

Same here, but if you let the page sit for ~30 seconds, it suddenly loads some content. Probably a very unoptimized homepage design.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by accountLost »

kyran_adept wrote: post #7

As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

#2 A few thousands iPhone owners out of 900 millions willing to pay $28 for a icon pack. Not that mind blowing for me. Compare that to the billions of $ users spend on loot boxes.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-01-loot-boxes...

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by mrtksn »

kyran_adept wrote: post #7

As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

> iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version

It's not a technical achievement(that took Apple 10 years to do), it's a design choice(that Apple made then and now). It can have multiple motivations that we can speculate on, would have been great to have someone from Apple to give us some perspective.

>iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

There are multiple games that make billions of $ by simply selling cosmetic items, this is very similar. It also has a a version in the physical world, people pay a premium for stuff with a special visual design and no functional advantage all the time. Handbags, clothes, cars, jewellery, movie merchandise(like Darth Vader helmets etc), houses, paint, books, computers - you name it, people actually pay for design.

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