This format is so much better than before man, it was too bombastic and annoying.. this is really nice and calm, im very happy with this and hope you continue like this!

The secret to building a successful app is 1. Choosing a product with a large enough market 2. Getting the marketing right. The coding and app part comes last.

Saying mobile apps is 'untapped' in 2024 is a wild statement.

One thing he mentioned that’s absolutely true is that most of success is about marketing. You need to show people why they should use your product. There are so many products out there, and new ones pop up every day with just small tweaks. It doesn’t have to be a original idea. Most people fail because they think there’s too much competition or that the market is saturated—but that’s just a mindset issue.

1. it's not untapped. 2. more people are doing this than you think 3. it's not easy

"What's your tech stack?" "Upwork and 99projects" - Steve 2024 😂😂😂😂😂

Gold advice: Success takes time and commitment. 4 years on the app, only 6 months of decent earnings - that’s the key. Few can endure 3.5 years in the death valley without a guaranteed outcome

Reading the comments and digesting the content. This guy made it from 1 in a millions apps out there and able to make some revenue. Good for him. He is fortunate and has grit to stick around for 4 years of tweaking at it.

Apps that appear free then hit you with a hard paywall, especially after wasting your time with a long “onboarding process” is such cancer. I can’t believe Apple allows it tbh

The most important question the host never asked. Whats the net profit ? 40k ARR means nothing if he is spending 35k in ads and developer salaries.

Mobile apps are untapped?! 😂 If blue ocean means untapped, mobile is the boiling Red Sea 😂

heavy like to Steven for pronouncing "niche" correctly 😄

Mobile apps are untapped? What decade is this guy living in?

Mobile apps are… *checks notes* untapped??!?

"Not a lot of people are doing mobile apps" there about 20 million mobile apps.

"not a lot of people are doing mobile apps right now" 😂

As a developer from Eastern Europe I'd like to support what this dude said around 6:00 about the quality/price ratio, but I'd like to seriously challenge his statement that you could have a finished, bugs-free, production ready app done for $5k unless it's something so simple that one could probably do on his own with no tech experience using some no-code platform. $5k will give you AT BEST 100 hrs of mid-to-senior dev and 100hrs are 2.5 work weeks for reference - probably enough for an MVP/Demo material but for a prod-ready product? And since this guy has obviously done it (and big kudost to him for that!), I'd be interested to see how many times he did it and did he use the same upword developer for more than one project

Homeboy got lucky. Doesn't know the industry at all. 55,000 apps were released in February 2024 alone. Untapped my ass. Sincerely a solopreneur who's been working in tech my entire career and have yet to have any of the hundreds of apps I have built be bought.

The most fun thing about making mobile apps is spending lots of time getting it working, finally getting it on the store, then a random ios update in the middle of night breaks everything, so it goes off the store for incompatibility, so everything comes to a crashing halt until its fixed and reuploaded. Then, every year, needing to recompile ipa files with apples certificates that proved you paid them money every year, then reuploading all over again to get back on the store. Then getting random emails that you need to draft new privacy policies based on things that don't involve you at all and reuploading the app with the new policy. And if you don't respond quickly enough to apple who randomly decides these things on a whim, your app gets taken off the store again. Apple basically treats developers like slaves, then taxes them an additional 30% of every sale, on top of all the extra busy work they require just to stay up.

Went to highschool with Steven in Alpharetta, GA. Dudes dad was very rich and gave a talk at our school. Of course he can build a team, it’s called having a rich dad lol