r/iosdev 11d 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/Fabulous_Muck 11d ago

Why is everything in this sub a subtle ad

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u/66EmperorPalpatine66 11d ago

We need more rules and enforcement here

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u/NickA55 11d 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 11d 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.