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Retiring my family one-by-one by building consumer apps (and a business my kids can inherit).

Joined February 2022
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Chris
3 days
My biggest regret for my kids is that they won’t have as much cool nostalgic shit to look at when they’re older to make them feel something. I can get the PS2 out, load up Metal Gear 2 and it’s exactly the same experience as it was when I was a boy. I forget I’m an adult for a.
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3 days
How much coffee do you all drink?. I have about 5 cups a day, is that normal? . ☕️ 8am.☕️ 9am.☕️ 10am.☕️ 11am.☕️ 1pm.
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4 days
Things like this make me happy. User started a trial of the app, used it for a short while, decided they liked it and unlocked the lifetime version. Value seen and acted upon ❤️
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When I was in primary school, my teachers told my parents in no uncertain terms, that I would amount to absolutely nothing. My mum cried that night. Fast forward, I have a family of my own that I worship, an amazing job in tech and I am on track to make an extra $50,000 from
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6 days
Show me the money please
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16 days
My adult content blocker safari extension just dropped 69 places for a random keyword. I am complete 😏
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21 days
In the UK, moving house is made so much harder by the terrible processes in place for what should be a simple change of address and bill regeneration. Changing address just to pay council tax, gas and electric triggers a whole stream of issues, and easily wastes a few hours.
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22 days
The app was pay to download forever and has been a subscription model for the last two months, currently sitting at $200 MRR, 6 trials, $916 revenue total in last 90 days.
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22 days
If I was to sell one of my apps that has $200 MRR and about another $150 in IAPs, what would the offer be?.
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Chris
23 days
Safari iOS I have tried to love you, I even built an iOS extension for you to block your adult sites, but I can’t stop going back to chrome on my iPhone. It’s not you, it’s me.
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24 days
Moving house next week so no project work for me. Still got two apps going through review so the process of that will have to scratch my itch for now. In the downtime, I’ll be finishing up reading Ready Player Two and posting app content on TikTok. This is the first time we
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25 days
This is a brilliant collection of poetry by @CourtPeppernell. Picked it up by chance earlier when visiting the local bookshop. I would highly recommend for anyone interested in feeling something real in a world of AI. And this is a beautiful line.
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25 days
If you need any motivation to keep making apps even when your first 10 flopped, here it is.
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26 days
Today I wasn’t planning on making anything as we’re moving house next week and I don’t want to be in the middle of something and then have a week off working. But I decided to re-use some code and make a new app cos I was bored. 3 hours start to finish, submitted to App Store 💪.
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27 days
Since I quit alcohol 1.5 years ago, my life has changed. I grew my app business from $0 MRR to $3300 + AIPs. My relationship with my wife changed to be the best it has ever been. My relationship with my kids, especially my teenage son, has morphed into something I didn’t know it
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27 days
I have a blog that some people here will know about. It only has 32 newsletter subs but it’s my little space to share stuff. The truth is, I find it hard to get motivated to write it. There are so many things I’d rather be doing than writing my blog so I’ve put it off for so.
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27 days
Hello new burner phone. Hello American users 🇺🇸
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27 days
This app was originally a pay to download app and, at it's peak, made me around $450 per month. It then flatlined at around $50 per month. The app was $4.99 to download and keep forever. With nothing to lose, I decided to switch it to a $2.99 per week model, with a lifetime
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This app used to make me about $45 per month. I turned it from a pay to download app to a subscription app and now it makes almost $200 MRR and about the same again in lifetime purchases. And it’s steadily growing. It’s still crazy to me that people won’t pay for a $5 app that
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1 month
TDIL that using a VPN alone isn’t enough to get US traffic on TikTok. Bidding on old iPhones with cracked screens as we speak 🤞.
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