my girlfriend launched her first mobile app 5 weeks ago.
today it hit $800 MRR and almost $1000 in revenue!
incredibly proud boyfriend moment right here.
hereâs the back story:
two months ago my gf approached me and asked me if i can teach her the basics of coding.
i was really stoked because it came from her and not me.
i tried forcing a partner in the past into coding and let me tell it didnât work out well lol
anyways, being a proud engineer and believing in teaching people first principles i decided to not throw her immediately into AI vibe coding but rather teach her the basics of coding.
we started with the Swift playgrounds course which is absolutely amazing btw
after she learned programming primitives we moved to web and i taught her a bit of typescript
we then built a very simply react native app without any AI so she could get the feeling of how apps actually work (obsly very basic but better than nothing)
at that point my life became quite busy again and i had to fully focus on work
before that though, i taught her how AI works with Cursor and Claude Code and then i went back to work
fast forward a week or two my gf approached me with her first app idea that she wants to build
i genuinely couldnât believe it because it was actually a great idea! very rare for a first timer.
she either absorbed a lot of business things i was just casually rambling during dinners or sheâs just super smart.
probably the latter.
the idea had a few rough edges but i didnât want to influence it too much because i believe that you gotta sometimes make mistakes and learn how to fix them / pivot along the way
so i basically âleft the chatâ and let her cook (or fu*k up) on her own
5 weeks later and her app revenue basically reached her salary (sheâs indonesia and wages are a bit rekt)
95% of her revenue is coming from organic Tiktok clips and comments
every time i see her on her phone sheâs now creating new content for distribution
i can see the hunger for more in her eyes and itâs absolutely beautiful