Show HN: Turning my Dashboard widget into a profitable iOS app

&#62; The app was selected as "New and notable" by Apple for the Swedish App Store, and my goal of 150 sales in three months was reached in less than one week.<p>That's the key point. Making it onto one of Apple's lists is the real moneymaker here.

This is a neat story.<p>So I'm a IOS noob and have a couple of dumb questions. I'll address them to the author, but please anybody just jump in there.<p>You still had to run a server with PHP to do the scraping to get the data, right? Were your server costs included in your profit estimate?<p>Because this was split up over several years, what kind of effort and money do you think it would be to go from being a competent Javascript/HTML/Server programmer to having an app in the store for this type of project?

Thanks :)<p>I might be visiting Stockholm soon and I'll grab your app!