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Finally reached 2k MRR on an iOS app I built

7 pointsby alirsgpabout 4 years ago
During my senior year in college, I wanted to build a social discovery app that helped me find the most compatible people possible to pair me up on video chats with. I envisioned using grandiose AI at the time, but settled for a simpler ranking algo.<p>After a long, long tread. I&#x27;ve finally hit $2k in MRR. I use firestore w&#x2F;a serverless set-up, and the app scales up nicely. My profit margins are over 99.9% (aside from the 15% cut Apple is taking from me).<p>Used SwiftUI to build the entire app. I hope to make more video chatting apps like this, but man was it a TON of work by myself. I had help from one designer with logos but that&#x27;s about it.<p>It was especially hard for me to balance iterating on this with my day job (I only really had time on weekends).<p>I hope it lasts for a few years and I can bank $100K from it. That&#x27;d be pretty cool

3 comments

angryasianabout 4 years ago
Great job. Keep it up. out of curiosity how are you charging ? like a subscription ?
bckrabout 4 years ago
Congrats. Maybe you can write a blog post about it.
sebastien_babout 4 years ago
Hoping you can make this into a Show HN someday.