April 2024: Monthly Summary
10 months in. Yet again my best month so far.
This month, I've reached my goal of ramen profitability ($2,5k).
Meaning, I'm no longer burning my savings to pay for my life expenses. Which is a big relief, but not as big as I'd expect honestly.
Here are my stats:
Mobile apps
💰 AppStore Sales: $2,35k
💸 AppStore Proceeds: $1,88k
🤖 Google Play Proceeds: $33
📺 Ads (AdMob): $973
🔗 Other: $20
Non-mobile
🍋 Sales: $401.32
🔗 Affiliate: $111
Total
$3418 ( $1189 or 53.38%)
🐦 Twitter following: 3,978 ( 456)
✉️ Telegram group: 341 ( 32)
Current portfolio
8 iOS apps (I killed 2 apps)
4 Android apps
3 websites (heymallorca, readreviews, mobiletools)
This month I took it easy. I visited my family and was sick for quite a bit of time, so I didn't push projects too much.
My focus was on ReadReviews, and while the project initially generated some sales, it eventually lost momentum.
Feedback suggested that the app's offering was unclear, so I'm planning to improve it by building a landing page (which should improve SEO as well).
Although I'm not bothered by it because my main goal with this project was to scratch my own itch, I do plan to leverage insights from it to build some of my next projects.
Surprisingly, my mobile apps experienced organic growth in April with minimal effort on my part.
Apple might not be the easiest to work with sometimes, but at the same time, it gives an amazing platform to build for, which I'm very grateful for.
I haven't seen great results on Google Play, but I'm working on improving it.
Until the next time ✌️
March 2024 monthly summary
I started my solo journey in July 2023 after being laid off.
Here are my stats after 9 months:
Mobile apps
💰 Sales: $1,82k
💸 Proceeds: $1,45k
📺 Ads: $488
🔗 Other: $28
Non-mobile
🍋 Sales: $224
🔗 Affiliate: $39
Total
$2229 ( $786 or 54.5%)
🐦 Twitter following: 3,522 ( 422)
✉️ Telegram group: 309 ( 69)
Current portfolio
10 iOS apps
4 Android apps
2 websites (
heymallorca.org,
readreviews.dev)
This was my best month so far. I’m getting closer to my ramen profitability goal of $2,5k.
This month I’ve focused on diversifying my portfolio of non-mobile apps by creating a Sentimental Analysis Tool.
To validate the idea I’ve put up together a Python script package to fetch reviews and analyze them using ChatGPT/Claude. After getting more than 10 sales and positive feedback I decided to build a standalone UI version which took me about a week:
ReadReviews.dev.
ReadReviews.dev is my stepstone to a bigger portfolio of products that I want to introduce over time. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, my mobile app portfolio was growing nicely on its own. Some of my apps grew organically to top positions in the App Store resulting in more downloads and sales.
The one that I’ve put the most time into still didn’t grow as much as I’d like to, but I want to keep improving the product and it’s ASO as I see a big potential in it.