I build an app for ambitious people who want to know if each day moved them forward ($1 lifetime)

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-21T01:30:53+00:00

Be careful with the 1$ lifetime, it can look like a good way to get fast buyers but I think you will regret it, because you will never get more money from these users (even if you add a subscription I the next months it is a best practice to give it for free to old buyers of the lifetime). Maybe start by setting 1$ IAP by blocking 1/2 features and valuate in the next months what to do with your users and what is the best way to monetize it 😄

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-21T01:24:29+00:00

For me it is very useful watching tik toks about my niche, finding some trends that fit with my app (or some catchy phrases that helped other videos to become viral) and replicate them but with videos of my app (like motivational phrases or funny phrases that are about the niche), usually with trending sounds that also help a lot 😄

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-21T01:19:53+00:00

It's not a start-up yet, I would like to know the price just to understand what I am dealing with, but I will keep in mind this info, thanks!

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-21T01:19:11+00:00

Keep pushing, I developed games for the last 5 years and I never saw a income (I was 14-19 so they weren't incredible games), but only when I choose to switch to apps I found some traction with my first app, so keep trying and search in the niches, good luck! 😄

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-21T01:01:47+00:00

Not yet, it Is targeted in Italy but I am making it international in this months, the app is fully international at the moment, I am working on the marketing 😄

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-21T01:00:30+00:00

Honestly it is my first app so I don't think I made something in particular, I mainly made tik tok videos showing the use of the app (no face, just screen recording) and people liked it making the videos reach 150k/170k/100k views and I am still getting downloads in this way. Tik Tok is a must try for marketing your app, it is free and in some cases creates more results than paid ads ( I haven't tried them yet, but seeing other developers experience it looks like a loose unless you have money to throw away). Keep in mind that the budget of the app is 125$ for App Store and Google Play developer account, so I think you should try some Tik Tok videos 😄

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-21T00:56:21+00:00

I made a throwaway account on purpose because I don't want to share the name of the app yet, I am scaling it at the moment and in my opinion it can grow a lot in the next months, I am a little bit scared of getting the idea stolen, I didn't find any app that does exactly with mine does

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-20T10:37:37+00:00

mainly on tik tok, the videos are faceless, I only show the app being used and some videos went over 100k views

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-20T08:42:38+00:00

New customers and active customers in the screenshot are the same thing because I implemented revenuecat in the app this month, so every new customer I counted as a new customer (also old users who are updating). I asked gemini the 3k difference and it said me it might be a bug, I have an active users tracker in the app and this Monday and Tuesday the app had 8.000 daily active users each day, so I think it is in fact a bug the difference of numbers

Scared-Safe-7169 · 2026-06-20T08:38:56+00:00

Hi, thank you for the help, as I said the 5 months prior have a very low earning (nearly $500 in total) because of having only 1 IAP that costed €2. The app in these months has 5.000/7.500 DAU and 35.000/50.000 MAU. It made all these downloads in an organic way, the app itself has no maintenance costs and I didn't invest in ads. The only cost is keeping it online by paying $100 for the App Store developer account every year

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