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A couple of days ago, someone bought the Pro upgrade for Basic Countdown Timer today. That’s $2.99, minus Apple’s cut.
This is the first IAP sale I’ve ever made! I wrote the first version of this app on an iPad in 2024 to learn Swift. Then, I abandoned it for two years. It gets about 20 downloads per month.
Whoever you are, thank you!
I just read this in an interview with the makers of the app ‘Grug’, which won an award at this year’s Apple Design Awards.
What advice would you give to a developer or designer just starting out?
Ship. When you build, you find new ideas, bad ideas, technical roadblocks, better directions, and real people. Put something into the world, learn from what happens, then keep going.
So, just ship.