I shipped all these apps in 2020. Most of them generated $0.

๐ŸŽฌ https://t.co/JAhXqsuu6h $0
๐ŸŒ https://t.co/BrNUAhfiIT $0
๐Ÿ’ก https://t.co/ZWcLfOH4aI $0
๐Ÿž https://t.co/aghOxYEcPI $1.99
๐Ÿ‘ https://t.co/2JhJLe27pW $3,025 in 10 days.

But that's ok, just keep shipping! My stories๐Ÿ‘‡

๐ŸŽฌ https://t.co/wuiBp1XsYD is the first thing I created. It's a community for indie makers. The different thing is we post updates in videos. I created it for fun as I think the world doesn't need one more text-based forum, so I make a video one. No monetization plan so far.
๐ŸŒ https://t.co/fiwjgCWho5 is a social app. The idea is from Linktree, an app to share your social links. I thought it would be cool to add more visuals to it, and meanwhile we can explore others around. I also have no monetization plan for it. Make it for fun too.
๐Ÿ’ก https://t.co/fZfL45uvVX is a platform to connect influencers with their fans. People says it's like @superpeer. But the only difference is it's all sync. Influencers don't need to commit their time to fixed slot. Fans pay to ask questions, influencers can answer at anytime.
Continuing Influenswer... I think the product has its potential. But for now maybe I didn't find the right niche to serve. Will re-evaluate it in future.
๐Ÿž https://t.co/RkDgmOLs3a is a tool I created for tracking backlogs for IndieLog (This is IndieLog's public page https://t.co/z5k6jhwiEt). Of course the inspiration is from @cannyHQ, but that's too expensive for solo like me. So I decided to create a light-weighted one.
Continuing Backlogs. Why I earned $1.99? Haha, it's because my silly bug. In my code, I put 199, but on Stripe side, the unit is cent, so my price becomes $1.99 ๐Ÿ˜… The price is really friendly for indie makers. But I didn't put too much effort on marketing it, then the ๐Ÿ’ต stops.
๐Ÿ‘ https://t.co/F5tXTxFwfD is the only one that makes some money. I said it took me 4 days from my 1st commit. But I won't deny, lots of code is re-used from my previous projects. Without previous cumulative effort, I have no way to make a profitable product in just 4 days.
I told some of my friends but I never shared it publicly that I learnt the whole web dev thing from a Udemy $9.99 course. Well, I still haven't 100% completed the course, but at least I got the idea. It totally opened up my world to create my side projects.
Luckily I have my full-time job, so I didn't mean to make any money in the beginning. I just started for fun, for solving some problems that I have, and others may have. So if you are creating your 1st app, don't expect to make even $1. If you make it, you're super lucky!
I never regret that I made several apps that didn't even generate any revenue. My core is a developer, along building those app, I am building my own tool belt. The same to you. You will learn lots nitty gritty stuff only when getting your hands dirty.
So if your indie journey just gets started, don't worry about making money. Money comes when you have better tool belt to make a better product. Money comes when your idea condensed to be a validated one. Money comes when your passion powers through any obstacles.
2021 can only be better. All the best my friends ๐Ÿ‘Š

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20 years ago, I created the Danish gaming site Daily Rush with @mwittrock โ€“ inside a startup accelerator called Prey4, complete with fantastical projections of world domination ๐Ÿ˜‚ โ€“ but now it's the end, after the proprietor of many years died in 2018.

Daily Rush was the culmination of years of using the web to do gaming journalism. I started Konsollen all the way back in 1995, then ran
https://t.co/zsT3ykQcVk for years in anticipation of Id's shooter, then worked at a web portal, then Daily Rush.

This was how I got into web development, project management, organizing, writing, publishing, and how I met lifelong friends. What a wonderful time. But most good things come to an end. We should all be so lucky to see something we help set in the sea brave the waves for 20 yrs!

It's awesome to see the Internet Archive snapshots from all the way back to the early months of the site. Web design anno 2000 ๐Ÿ˜


The memory lane trip on the Internet Archive goes all the way back to the precursor to Daily Rush, that https://t.co/zsT3ykQcVk site. Here's a snapshot from 1999! Complete with all the news written by yours truly ๐Ÿ˜„

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