Launched an App 3 Months Ago, Sold it for $65,000

Published March 16, 2023 by Niall Doherty
Nico Jeannen writes…
I launched an app 3 months ago with 0 budget and less than 600 followers. Yesterday I sold it for $65,000… I learned to code only 9 months ago.
The app is MakeLogo.ai, which lets users generate logos by writing a few prompts
Nico got some traction for his app by building in public on Twitter…
48 hours, 1 earthquake and 2 power outages later, I had my crappy MVP ready
His first few sales came from his Twitter followers, and he also launched on Product Hunt and “added the app to every startup directory I could put my hand on.”
Another thing he did to promote his app…
I also kept posting on Twitter, every time someone asked “what are you working on?” I replied with the name of the app, and the same when someone asked for AI-generated logos
Nico sold the app last week…
In total, the app made +$23,000 in sales and $15,000 in profit. So, that’s around $80,000 in total (profit + sale), which is equivalent to at least 5 years of safety net where I live
(He lives in Bali, btw)
Looks like Nico started learning to code via a $20 Python course on Udemy.
But it’s not like he hit a home run right out of the gate…
Now, keep in mind that it’s not my first shot at entrepreneurship.
In the last 5 years, I launched around 35 projects and most were total failures. Just between October and December 2022, I released 7 different apps.
I never gave up. I kept showing up. It’s a number game.
Here’s an interview with Nico if you want to dive deeper into his story
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