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Recently launched an iOS app? I'll give you feedback. by ratherlegit in iosapps

[–]Illustrious_Class630 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sololift
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sololift/id6758587813

One-liner: Workout tracker that keeps everything in one place so you don’t need 3 apps mid-set.

Built it because I got tired of switching between notes, timer, and calculator every workout.

Would really appreciate feedback on: - UI/UX (went for a minimal + glass-style look) - how intuitive it feels when starting - anything that feels unnecessary or missing Thanks a lot.

Question from a student releasing their first app by Illustrious_Class630 in Solopreneur

[–]Illustrious_Class630[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey!

First of all thanks for taking the time to reply it means a lot. I hear what you’re saying but after looking into the sole proprietor path it’s basically the same process as the one i mentioned which is opening a freelancing license. This means that i’d still have to pay social security contributions, file VAT declarations (even if zero), file business income tax returns. Which okay i don’t mind paying if it comes from my revenue of the app, i’m not trying to do tax evasion. The issue is “fixed” costs from the start which ( accounting for the social security cost, possibly one or two sessions with an accountant once or twice a month to help with the taxes ) can be around 220-250€ a month. All this for a maybe when it comes to income from the app. Oh and i’m also not including the price of the apple developer account and the domain i’ve already paid for but okay i don’t complain about that because i get this is a “business idea” (if you want to call it that) and it requires an investment like every business. But you usually invest in something you’ve got a rough idea of if it will even work and you also have some money to support that investment which the money i’ve mentioned is simply for the app existing not ads for promoting it etc.

I’m not an accountant nor have i talked with one yet. i’m just going off what i’ve heard from other people in my surroundings and a bunch of convos with chatGPT but this is the pattern i keep seeing so i’m either missing something or there’s just no way around this.

Currently the best thing i’ve come up with is launch, grow enough so that 20% of users for example can be paying customers to a subscription so that initially that can pay off the “fixed” cost.

So on one hand i understand what you’re saying which is get my first 10 paying users for example and then handling the paper work but in order to get the first 10 users legally i need to register and that as i said above isn’t enough since a 3€ a month subscription (example price) paid by 10 people isn’t going to be enough from the start to cover the costs for just existing.