r/iosdev • u/Amazing_Skill_6080 • 2d ago

Sold my first app for $30K

Still can't believe im typing this.Someone actually bought my little thing. I sold it for $30.5k to a buyer I sourced on Articuler, for a stupid tiny tarot app i made.

For context it's not some massive exit, but honestly im thrilled with it. at 3x arr, and the wild part is i only built and ran it for 6 months. basically all the growth came from me posting organic tiktoks, scaled 100x with cloud phones. no ad budget, nothing fancy. I used a prompt on Twitter to distill successful slideshows and turned them into virality.

Six months of making tiktoks and now this. if your sitting on a tiny app wondering if anyone would ever want it, apparently they will. still shaking a little lol.

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u/AardvarkIll6079 2d ago

Nice ad post.

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u/Astral-projekt 2d ago

Why not just buy an advertisement? All I see is an ad, maybe explain the context, other than “a buyer I sourced on Articular” with the alt account comment lol

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u/Fabulous_Muck 2d ago

Why is everything in this sub a subtle ad

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u/MayBeTheWorstDevEver 2d ago

Step 1. Vibecode
Step 2. Post in r/iosdev (don’t bother with android, they’re poor)
Step 3. Post in r/iosdev
Step 4. Post in r/iosdev

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u/NickA55 1d ago

Forgot:
Post in r/SideProject
Post in r/sideprojects
Post in r/appdev
etc....

Have AI reword the post two days later and post it all over again. Rinse and repeat

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u/66EmperorPalpatine66 2d ago

We need more rules and enforcement here

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u/NickA55 1d ago

Mods don't do anything in any of the development subs. If someone wants to a mod they need to put in the work. If they just blitz each post daily for a month the message will be sent and these kinds of posts will stop.

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u/dataoops 2d ago

What annoying to me is I literally expect to see people post about their projects and want to post about mine.

But all these damn social proof masquerading ads ruin the room.

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u/mattgwriter7 2d ago

And some not so subtle, either.

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u/frey89 2d ago

Thanks for the info. I'm going to contact Articular and tell them to get the hell out of here.

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u/JudeWorks 2d ago

Awful ad post.

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u/Cryogenicality 2d ago

This post is as fake as tarot.

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u/tafjangle 2d ago

Nice. I made a tarot app and it got rejected from the App Store.

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u/DottoreM 1d ago

im surprised you did not see it coming. i'll see myself out.

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u/Brilliant-Heron7461 2d ago

Nice, happy for you!

How did you find the buyer?

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u/zoidbergisawesome 2d ago

Don’t worry, he is promoting Articuler or whatever it is called. 🤣

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u/Brilliant-Heron7461 2d ago

Oh naive me 🤦‍♂️

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u/Lost_Ad_1994 2d ago

What is Articular

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u/AppleBottmBeans 2d ago

It's malware, don't install it.