An iPhone app that has made 30K in 6 months

http://makecoolshit.com/the-designers-guide-to-iphone-apps-revenue/

by rick888 • 17 years ago

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wgj3• 17 years ago

The money was split with the developer, so they made $15K each. I'm assuming the 2-8 hours per week was 2-8 hours each. I didn't see where he said otherwise.

To me this looks similar to what you might make from many kinds of small app projects, but the App Store process seems to introduce so much additional risk.

ynniv2• 17 years ago

Its like hearing from people who bought a lotto ticket and won $100. I recognize that these people have made their money back, but I'm really not interested in their story. Where's the > $100k iPhone app success stories?

pchristensen• 17 years ago

Whenever those get posted, people complain about the AppStore "gold rush" stories. So you're damned if you do...

rscott2• 17 years ago

Right here: http://devworld.apple.com/profiles/#demiforce-large

SamAtt• 17 years ago

To me that's the bottom line. The real problem with the "Gold Rush" stories is that they make it sound like you can create an app over a weekend and pull in $100k for it. What I got from this post is that writing an app for the app store is the same as starting up any other type of business.

Albeit with its own unique challenges (getting approved, managing the poor review process, marketing, etc...)

biznerd• 17 years ago

Not to mention that 15k over 6 months isn't something you can live on. Hypothetically yes they could "scale" and launch 5 equally successful apps but things never work out that way. I wouldn't be surprised if the author had other apps that are not nearly as successful.

An iPhone app that has made 30K in 6 months

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