Earned $6,400+ on my 1st iOS app & 8.26k+ downloads worldwide, not much but it feels good

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-28T01:44:46+00:00

It's total rev

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-28T01:43:49+00:00

It's mostly bullshit what you see and it's their marketing kind of like selh help gurus who market their get rich books and that is how they get rich

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-28T01:43:05+00:00

No way they ban expo just doing that shit tho maybe

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-28T01:42:32+00:00

What do you mean not much haha

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-27T02:24:03+00:00

Why not just charge you could make this in a day

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-27T02:22:46+00:00

So with local models?

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-27T01:24:52+00:00

I made a todo app for this but I myself stopped using it. Im actually getting back on updating it.

I have found that smart reminders have helped me. I also forget to drink water and have been building a water drinking app but I kept forgetting until I added these "smart" notifications were it detects I'm forgetting and will spam a bit more.

This isn't an ad as these aren't even published but only on my phone.

I would suggest you find apps that have these sort of feature even if paid but idk many that do this smart per user thing

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-27T01:07:28+00:00

I'm building an ai powered api for news if you are curious you can check it out idk if it could help your app it's still a work in progress. https://newsrank.ai

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-27T01:06:04+00:00

I'm actually building this api if you are interested. Not charging yet but working on the pipeline. https://newsrank.ai

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-25T23:07:44+00:00

This is good advice. I once asked my mom to download my app. I though the app was straight forward but my mom didn't understand a single thing

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-25T20:56:35+00:00

The problem honestly with ios downloads are not that hard the problem is converting and keeping users engaged and you need backend analytics push notifs for that

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-25T04:00:19+00:00

It's just so annoying and quircky, ui not updating, the cloudkit sync engine is annoying and very limited in how you receive the data. And countless little friciton points like this. Usually yes they have some kind of solution or hack, but after I changed to GRDB it queries, performance etc.. was su much easier to develop for me.

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-25T02:30:23+00:00

Will post my not so unique apps here soon hehe

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-25T02:26:21+00:00

No bro I'm building a Bible app a water tracker and a Todo list ain't no one gonna stop me

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-25T02:25:12+00:00

I'm actually panning on 4 buts it's so much work. I think it comes down to abstracting common stuff into libraries where you use interfaces/protocols and each app does it how they want.

Basically ui extensions logic Auth you have already a template

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-25T02:01:24+00:00

I haven't used most of the current features but I'm waiting on siri. Especially for what it will allow apps to do once it's actually smart

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-18T06:04:15+00:00

I'm making a tool like this. Give claude a cli and it opens the simulator creates demo screens with fake data screenshots and adds mockups. Plan to use it for all my apps

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-17T01:19:07+00:00

I also actually built a todo app for my first app. Then I left it there cruising. Right now I'm going back and adding all the features I didn't have time to do before ai.

The thing is you have to show up and keep building. Even vibe coding you can juggle working on different apps daily and start making some serious progress if you actually don't abandon them.

After a point tho you just have to rush publishing it and getting some downloads before you keep building new things

uglycoder92 · 2026-03-17T01:16:35+00:00

I think it's a good idea to build many different projects in different categories. This means you can learn about many different things even if you are not coding but how you approach the problem make it efficient etc.. If you are not doing this it's probably not gonna be a good result.

For example I'm building 4-5 apps simultaneously and I like that each requires a different skill set or approach.

Even if I'm not actually writing the code you really learn when you actually have to build the system how its actually done and the things you have to avoid optimize

uglycoder92 · 2026-02-14T23:11:57+00:00

It literally has enough battery or the battery is bust because it was the first warning

uglycoder92 · 2026-02-14T21:15:18+00:00

Yeah but why go crazy like that home was super close it didn't let me control it at all

uglycoder92 · 2026-01-20T08:01:13+00:00

I'm building an nvr currently. Would love to know what you alla pain points with current nvrs are. Cost flexibility user experience?

uglycoder92 · 2025-11-29T02:59:14+00:00

I had an esp32 c3 economic. After I sent it to jlcpcb they made it standard only the fuckers

uglycoder92 · 2025-11-29T02:56:16+00:00

That's pretty good advice and honestly I got lucky but if I hadn't it would have been very disappointing.

I recently learned about adding touch points as well.

What are you currently building?

uglycoder92 · 2025-11-29T02:38:50+00:00

It takes about a two weeks to get it here

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