Utility iPhone / iOS apps

Solo Replit build of OnlyWaivers around a problem from Chris's church — building, Stripe payments, Facebook ads, Reddit promotion and the first paying customer in 85 minutes.

Tom built a single tiny widget solving one painful problem, launched it about a year ago and it now makes $55K/month — 100% bootstrapped, with a focus on spotting a real problem and the simplest possible solution.

The episode follows an EMT who builds iPhone apps on the side, landing contracts with BuzzFeed and UMass and earning about $15,000 a month. It covers freelancing iOS app builds for clients.

Side Hustle School profiles a UK bank employee who launched a weight-tracking iPhone app three years after entering the space, growing it into full-time income while travelling, with no revenue figures shared.

Jake Glacer built one of the simplest apps in the channel's history, which hit $50K/month in four months by finding a viral idea and marketing from day one — covers growth/marketing including deal structure and tracking.

Blake Anderson built three AI iPhone apps that earned over $10M combined — 'year of iOS apps' framing, idea-finding cadence, validation process, tools, marketing, monetisation and profit margins.

Pat Walls (founder of Starter Story) dissects why simple iPhone apps are printing money — Pushscroll, Puffcount, 5-0 Scanner, Cal.ai and B2B Video — and frames the moment as a return to 'dumb iPhone apps'.

Sarah built Stella, an iOS app that hit $340K/month in just 60 days — the start of a 'next wave' where building apps is trivially easy and distribution/virality decides winners.

Jay (former software engineer) built nomadtable — a mobile app for digital nomads — to $140K/month revenue, with a day-in-the-life look at morning routine, iOS idea generation, building apps while traveling and afternoon coding.

Will Baker calls himself 'the laziest founder' on the channel — he built apps that together make $10K/month with no TikTok army, no UGC, no build-in-public, just paid-ads-to-simple-app.

Steven Cravotta built a viral iPhone app to over $40K/month — founder profile with chapters on founder background, building/validating the app, organic marketing, monetisation, pricing and onboarding.

Brainstorming on hostile-takeover of 'Sara's List' plus Nikita Bier on how he built GAS — at the time the #1 app — and reverse-engineering the viral-app playbook.

Jason Fried (37signals) on innovative product ideas — a 'Scratch-off Ad' app (scratch a full-screen ad with your finger, blow into the mic to clear 'dust'), a 'Shower Door Sketch' app (drawing on steamy glass with ambient sound) and the broader 'new idea' thesis.

Pat spends 24 hours with the co-founders of Cal AI — numbers behind the app, what it was like building a company with friends, the experience of selling the calorie tracker for millions.

Theo Tabah and Jordan Mix (Late Checkout) pitch six startup ideas for 2024 — Locket for creators (lock-screen widget for fan engagement), Apple Vision Pro bars (a subscription bar pass), a multi-industry fitness product, neighbourhood apps and a few more.