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A solo dev building and scaling iOS apps

A solo developer shares how he ships and grows iOS apps.

Problem it solvesShipping and growing iOS apps is hard to figure out alone.

Marco, a German solo developer, shares lessons from building and launching iOS apps. He says he is scaling toward $10k MRR and reports one app has reached €40k all time revenue.

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Marco

@maxzrco

Heyyy I'm Marco 👋 28 yo german solo dev, shipping mobile apps 🇩🇪 I've built and launched 6 iOS apps. Mostly figuring out the hard parts myself: ads, attribution, paywalls, onboarding, distribution. Right now I'm scaling to $10k MRR. One app at €40k all time revenue - got there making just about every mistake possible. Follow along so you don't have to make them too. I mostly post about paid ads, paywalls, distribution and building apps in public. Real numbers, including the rough stretches. Like the last few weeks, where things really haven't been going well.

Revenue
€40K
all time
MRR
$10K
scaling to
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