"We made $5,000 in the first two hours. Definitely reach out to press, you idiot." 😂 @mergesort.me built one of the first ChatGPT apps — in 19 days. One email to John Gruber, a post on Daring Fireball, and RevenueCat alerts started going off in a bar. 🎙️ New episode links in the 1st comment below 👇

What if you could build a company that was just founders sitting around a kitchen table making stuff? 🍳 Andy Allen went through the startup cycle once. Then he built Not Boring Software to be the opposite — 2 people, 0 plans to grow & a business model to keep it that way Episode link👇

He emailed every college golf coach in the country. One responded: "I need an Android app." So he rebuilt the entire app for Android. For one person. 😅 Eric Duffett on the rookie mistakes that came before $1M in Shot Pattern sales — while teaching high school full-time. Full episode link below 👇

In Cupertino? 👀 Join us at @communitykit.social on Wednesday for a WWDC edition Launched Live 🚀 featuring @fosiadesign.bsky.social and @jagcesar.bsky.social! Get our live reactions as indies to Apple's announcements Tickets still available! Grab them while they're hot!👇 luma.com/dxme2hiw

"I'm coming for you guys." 💀 What happens when you send 30 feature requests to your favorite app and get ignored? If you're Austin Blake you build Stuff and warn the CEO their job's in danger. The rest is history. Full episode on Launched 🎙️ Links in the first comment below 👇

"From idea to money was 3 weeks and I'm very proud of that." Daniel Kennett built a Mac webcam app mid-pandemic in 3 weeks — not because he was lucky, but because he'd made a smart architectural decision years earlier. New Launched with @ikenndac.bsky.social out now 🎙️ Link in the comments below 👇

"The ones that were from grinding, like nailing what the experience is like from beginning to end... those are the ones that had a long tail." — Bria Sullivan, Focus Friend Why the famous App Store "pre-order hack" might actually be hurting your indie app's long-term success. Full episode link 👇️

"What happened was I was too cool to write on a piece of paper and hold it." 😂 @joeallenpro.com shares the hilarious origin story of Teleprompter Pro — from scrolling Apple Pages on a first-gen iPad to a 15-year indie app business. Full episode link in the first comment 👇

"When I installed the app on my own phone, 20 seconds afterwards, I accidentally ended up opening Twitter and I ran into my own app." 😅 @frederik.riedel.wtf built one sec in a weekend to tackle his own scrolling habit. The validation was immediate. Full episode on Launched👇

"I suddenly had 5 days a week and I let loose of all the things I learned as a side hustler." @avanderlee.com went full-time indie — and immediately stopped following his own advice 😅 New episode of Launched with the creator of RocketSim and SwiftLee 🎙️ Link in the comment 👇

"I got really excited that I had a problem I could translate into an app." Love this mindset from @swifteves.bsky.social on the new Launched episode. He saw a need for a "HealthKit for kids" and built Pediapal to solve his own problem. Link to the full episode in the first comment 👇

"I was already getting people downloading my app. It wasn't an issue of trying to get more people using my app. It was actually finding a way to monetize that more effectively." —@adamlyttleapps.com on Launched. From $10k to $70k/mo with one experiment. Full episode link below 👇

🚀 New Launched! "Every time someone mentions App Store Connect, people just tag Helm and say 'Just use Helm instead.'" @hiddevdploeg.bsky.social and @polpielladev.bsky.social built a tool so good, their users became their marketing team. Links in the first comment 👇

No dashboards. No streaks. Just a GitHub-style grid that made habits obvious. @roehl.dev on designing HabitKit – and more! Full episode on Launched: links to the full episode in the first comment 👇

🎧 From Google engineer → Apple Design Award winner. @sandeepranade.bsky.social built NaadSadhana, an app that listens, learns, and performs music with you — not for you. He calls it “artistic intelligence.” Full story on Launched 🎙️ Links to the full episode in the first comment below👇

“Turn [those ads] off right now – they're burning money” – Jordan's marketing agency For this year's Christmas Special, I talked with indie app dev @jordanmorgan10.bsky.social about ads and creative fatigue, seasonality, and finding market fit even without huge marketing budgets.

“Most apps are all about retention. I made an app that is meant to be deleted.” — Taiwo Omisore, creator of One Chance In this clip, @taiomi.bsky.social explains the idea behind One Chance — an app you can literally only play once. Links to the full episode in the first comment below👇

“You have to be an authentic member of the community you’re building for.” — Aja Beckett In our latest episode of Launched, Aja shares how that mindset shaped Shotsy, the GLP-1 tracking app born from her own personal journey.

It’s here! The first episode of the new Launched podcast (now from @revenuecat.com is live. I sat down with Ryan Jones, CEO of Flighty, to talk about: – Product as the growth engine – Designing for shareability – ASO over ads, and much more. Links in the first comment below 👇

Launched is now a @revenuecat.com podcast 🙀 and if there’s one thing RevenueCat knows how to do – it's swag 😅 sooooo we’re giving away 50 Launched shirts to those of you who, let's be real, do some free marketing for us 😏 Details below👇

For, uh, no apparent reason. I got the great @matthewskiles.com to refresh the Launched artwork. Whatdya think? 🔍

The rumors are true! ‼️ Helm creators @hiddevdploeg.bsky.social and @polpielladev.bsky.social are joining the stage at Launched LIVE🔴 in Cupertino during #WWDC25 Tickets are STILL AVAILABLE but going fast, so get them while you can! 👇 lu.ma/htlbbu10

For the 1st time Launched LIVE is coming to Cupertino for #WWDC25! 🚀 Space is LIMITED but anyone who correctly guesses my guests in the replies will get a guaranteed ticket 👀 Hint: This duo launched their beloved (ship themed) dev tool during WWDC 24 lu.ma/htlbbu10

🚀 New Episode! 🚀 @strasser.bsky.social joins the show to talk about his indie iOS game development career, winning an Apple Design Award, and how he built and launched his latest game The Art of Fauna 😁 youtu.be/xdb6OEHDOFs

Honored to make my debut on @launchedfm.com! Had a great time discussing all things Delta and AltStore — including some behind-the-scenes drama with Apple 👀

🚀 New Episode! 🚀 Launched is back! This week @riley.social joins the show to talk iPhone emulators and the wild story behind the launch of @altstore.io youtu.be/L7awCYyrlzI

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Launched Live is back this year at Deep Dish Swift in Chicago! 🍕🍕🍕 But don’t worry, you won’t have to wait till April for more Launched… 👀

🚨🎄 New Episode 🎄🚨 The one and only @jordanmorgan10.bsky.social joins the show for our annual holiday tradition to talk about our lives, careers, and indie apps. And now we're in video form! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWQZ...

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