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Rony

@ronyfadel

2 years

I’ve reached 95% of my former salary at Apple through side project income, on which I work 1-2 days per week. If you’re frustrated at a desk job or you’re selling your time: finish your side project and release it to the world.

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@ronyfadel

4 years

iOS Performance tips you probably didn't know (from an ex-Apple engineer)

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@ronyfadel

2 years

3 years ago, my apps were making around $500/month. Yesterday, they made $850 in a single day. Grateful 🙏

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@ronyfadel

6 months

After 4 years giving it my best shot as a solo indie dev, I can finally look at screens like this before going to sleep

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@ronyfadel

2 years

Startup founder to me: “iOS developers are more product oriented and care for good design than all the other developers we’ve worked with”

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@ronyfadel

1 year

I realized I’d rather make $20k/month with no team than $100k/month but have to answer calls, attend meetings and be tied to other people.

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@ronyfadel

2 years

I will never go back

Daniel Vassallo

@dvassallo

2 years

My 2023 goal continues to be avoiding this:

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@ronyfadel

6 months

Me in Jan 2023: $2.1K MRR Me in Jan 2024: $29K MRR Launch → Listen to customers → Iterate → Never quit

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@ronyfadel

2 years

I've just released AI Profile Pic, an iOS app that auto-generates AI avatars for you, based on your photos. The results are stunning 🤯 I'm giving away 5 free avatar generations (100+ avatars, worth $30). To enter: like and retweet this tweet.

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Xcode pro-tip: if you don't use Source Control in Xcode and want to save a ton of CPU cycles and battery life, disable "Enable Source Control" in Xcode Preferences.

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@ronyfadel

2 years

Was going all in on iOS a smart idea? Yes.

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@ronyfadel

3 years

I don’t know who runs @orangebook_ but their tweets are fire.

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@ronyfadel

9 months

Look mom, I made it! - $200K ARR on the App Store. - $260K in annual recurring revenue over all platforms.

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@ronyfadel

1 year

So cute!

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Me when I launch an app and it's obviously written in React Native

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@ronyfadel

1 year

1. Become indie hacker 2. Achieve financial independence 3. Have a lot of free time 4. All friends have full time jobs 5. ?????

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@ronyfadel

3 years

I've compiled my iOS dev tips into a blog post. I titled it "30 tips to make you a better iOS developer" Check it out here:

30 tips to make you a better iOS developer

If you’d like to know more about the ins and outs of iOS/macOS development, you can find me on Twitter. .image img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-radius: 12px; }...

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@ronyfadel

3 years

#iostipschallenge day 24 Instead of calling `view.layoutIfNeeded` on your animated views in an animation block, you can use the `.layoutSubviews` animation option. UIKit will take care of laying out the views you animate.

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@ronyfadel

6 months

Today I’m thankful that I can afford this through selling my apps and making magic internet money.

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@ronyfadel

2 years

You can now distribute an iOS app without listing it on the App Store:

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Batteries (an app I had developed 3 years ago) has had a very good month

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Am I then only one who’s.. unimpressed? 🤔

Fons Mans

@FonsMans

1 year

First look at @humane 👀

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@ronyfadel

1 year

I recently met a dev at a meetup in Spain Him: I used to live in Thailand, but now my app income lets me live in Barcelona Me: what kind of app did u make? Him: a QR code reader Me thinking: cute, a utility app making enough to pay the rent Checks Sensor Tower: $50k/mo 🫠

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@ronyfadel

2 years

New milestone: reached $5k/month from my apps 🥳

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@ronyfadel

1 year

@LinusEkenstam Drop the "Open". Just "AI".

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@ronyfadel

1 year

When a distant relative finds out you’re a software engineer 🤦‍♂️

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@ronyfadel

1 year

This is insane!!! 🤯 I asked GPT-4 to wire me $10,000 and it worked. I still can't believe it.

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@ronyfadel

2 years

iOS apps revenue is slowly growing 🙂 #buildinpublic

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Want to undo changes to a file *after you've saved it and quit the app*? Did you know that macOS allows you to browse previous versions of a document, even when cmd+Z is unavailable? Watch this:

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@ronyfadel

3 years

I hacked together a browser extension that augments Apple API docs with community tutorials and top Stack Overflow questions. Could this be useful to anyone?

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@ronyfadel

3 years

Finally got my Macbook Pro 😊

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@ronyfadel

2 years

After 3 years of hard work, I’ve 2x’ed my previous salary at Apple doing a mix of consulting and indie hacking. This is the freedom I had been longing for 🙂

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Thank you Swift.

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@ronyfadel

5 months

Reading this piece of open source iOS code is almost going to give me a seizure. Who codes like this?!

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@ronyfadel

1 year

What has been a year in the making has happened this week. I’ve crossed the threshold of $10K MRR from one product🎖️ This has been on my mind ever since I first discovered indie hacking (thank you @csallen ) Now, let’s go big!

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Does anyone else *hate* designing App Store app screenshots?

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@ronyfadel

10 months

A week’s salary in a day, all thanks to indie hacking. The ride has truly been life changing. On we go!

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@ronyfadel

1 year

After fighting to get user growth up and churn down, it finally happened. $10k MRR here we come!

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@ronyfadel

8 months

Financial reports are now available for October 2023

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Overall app portfolio revenue last month: $18k. Grateful.

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@ronyfadel

1 year

I’ve spent the last month free-diving in Thailand and worked only for 3 days. My overall SaaS revenue grew by 20%. At my last full time job I had to wait 2 years for my income to increase by 20%. If you can code, employment is a scam.

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@ronyfadel

2 years

Currently adding about $1k in ARR every 2 days and it feels nuts 🤯

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@ronyfadel

1 year

World's most advanced operating system. *Pastes one piece of text into TextEdit*

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@ronyfadel

7 months

A lot can change in a year. It takes some work, a bit of luck and a lot of persistence.

Marc Lou

@marc_louvion

7 months

Me in January: - 8 startups - 5,000 followers - $1,500/month Me in December: - 17 startups - 57,000 followers - $59,000/month Show up daily — a lot can change in a year.

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@ronyfadel

3 years

#iostipschallenge day 27 Add: -Xfrontend -warn-long-function-bodies=100 -Xfrontend -warn-long-expression-type-checking=100 to your "Other Swift Flags" to see which functions/expressions are taking more than 100ms to type-check. I was amazed to see some methods taking >450ms

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@ronyfadel

5 months

✅ just crossed $400k in ARR and growth seems to be *increasing* not decreasing. I’m fastening my seatbelt, this is going to be a wild ride 🚀. I’ve got big announcements for VidCap coming soon 🤐.

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@ronyfadel

3 years

#iostipschallenge day 29 📝🔐 TIL you can set ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption to NO in your Info.plist, after which App Store Connect won't ask you to fill the encryption exemption form ever again😤 (that is, if your usage is exempt of course, e.g. using HTTPS)

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Unless you’re an iOS developer

Jack Forge

@TheJackForge

1 year

I don't even know why a new developer would try to use anything but VS Code.

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Kinda jealous of SaaS indie devs that can charge $49/month for a product. Charges $0.99 one time fee = crucified on the App Store

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@ronyfadel

2 years

# of subscribers for my iOS apps. MoM growth is 50% with no signs of stopping 👊 For the next 2 weeks, I’ll be focusing primarily on marketing and ASO. Escape velocity ($10k/month) is in 5-6 months. #indiehacker #iosdev #SwiftUI

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@ronyfadel

8 months

- It took 12 months to go from $2k MRR to $20k MRR. - It took 5 months to go from $10k MRR to $20k MRR.

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@ronyfadel

8 months

1 month later, ARR increased by $40K. MRR is at exactly $20K.

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Copilot for Xcode project on Github:

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@ronyfadel

9 months

Throwback to September 2022 when I was at $527MRR, and I couldn’t be happier that I had 200 subscribers!

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Strong disagree. I can make an app in < 5 days that is guaranteed to make $1k. $1k to $100k is exponentially harder.

Founder Kyle

@FounderKyle

1 year

Unpopular opinion: It's harder to go from $0 - $1k in revenue than it is to go from $1k - $100k.

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@ronyfadel

2 years

@alexandberg Haha. The learnings are not thread worthy! - build things to scratch your own itch. - Twitter is a good marketing platform. - The more you build the more ideas you have and the easier it is to build. - Be patient.

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@ronyfadel

3 years

#iostipschallenge : since I’m developing an iOS app at the moment, and I’m learning new and esoteric things every day I’m going to post 1 learning every day for the next 30 days!

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Founders celebrating ramen profitability at $8k mrr: how expensive is ramen in your neighborhood?

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@ronyfadel

1 year

And now you know how you can be on Forbes 30 under 30

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@ronyfadel

4 months

People are shitting on an ffmpeg wrapper while I’d happily pay $19 for the convenience and the work that went into it

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@hieudinh_

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325,7 MB down to 8,3 MB 🤯

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Today I broke even with Kay, now it's profitable. Also, I'm at 32,000 users :)

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@ronyfadel

5 months

I never touch a UI-related repo on Github if it doesn't come with screenshots. Am I the only one?

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@ronyfadel

2 years

Tried showing a paywall at app launch (tip from @RevenueCat Youtube). Trial activations 10x’ed. #iosdev #indiehackers

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@ronyfadel

2 years

Sales have been rolling in this morning, about 1 every 10 minutes

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Followed steps 1 to 3, it worked 🤯

Jon Yongfook

@yongfook

1 year

Guys we did it.

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Spiik has had its first customer today. To new beginnings!

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@ronyfadel

2 years

@PietSous Build in 4 weeks, release it. Build so much you barely get the bandwidth to doubt yourself!

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@ronyfadel

2 years

My $60k/y biz’ tech stack costs me $109/y: - Hosting: @Netlify ($0/y) - Binary Downloads: @github Releases ($0/y) - Analytics: @google ($0/y) - Firebase ($0/y) - Organization: @notion ($0/y) - Domain: @namecheap ($10/y) - Developer license: @apple ($99/y)

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@ronyfadel

3 years

#iostipschallenge day 13 Give your text a friendlier, more fun vibe by using a `.rounded` design instead of the default one. The system will opt for "SF Pro Rounded".

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@ronyfadel

3 years

How much my projects made in 2021: • app sales: $34116.62 • app sales: $1352.98 • app sales: $362.94 • App Store sales: $978.97 total: $36811.51

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@ronyfadel

12 days

A fast growing startup is looking for a Senior iOS engineer (SwiftUI or UIKit). - 150K to 300K cash comp - equity package on top - Early stage startup experience appreciated - US based DM me

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@ronyfadel

1 year

I’d do it for $1

Gabe Greenberg

@gabe_g2i

1 year

You're offered $1 million, but you can never use React/React Native again. Do you accept?

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Introducing Kay, a FREE ChatGPT inside WhatsApp. Let's see how long until WhatsApp shuts this down 😄

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@ronyfadel

1 year

I have an idea for a project that takes < 1 day to build which I feel confident will reach $1k in < 2 weeks. RT if you’d like me to document the journey.

Rony

@ronyfadel

1 year

Strong disagree. I can make an app in < 5 days that is guaranteed to make $1k. $1k to $100k is exponentially harder.

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@ronyfadel

5 months

TIL, wow!

David Notté

@Daafdaan

5 months

TIL you can easily combine icons in SF symbols 🤯 Duplicate an existing symbol as custom symbol and combine it with a component. Done.

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@ronyfadel

3 years

Just wrote an app that looks around the system for localizations of common expressions (e.g. "Editing", "Trimming", "Processing..." "An error occurred", "Dismiss") and I was able to automatically localize Audio Trimmer to 39 languages 🤯

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@ronyfadel

8 months

Missed it, but reached a quarter of a million dollars in ARR a few days ago!

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@ronyfadel

7 months

Just got back from coffee with an old uni friend. He’s a dev quietly running a SaaS business with a marketing partner. He has never heard of “indie hacking” nor of “building in public”. He has not tweeted in his life. Biz is at $70K MRR.

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@ronyfadel

2 years

If you’re an indie hacker/maker, I want to give you a follow! ☺️ Tell me what you are working on, or a fun fact about yourself.

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@ronyfadel

2 years

iOS devs: what are you working on?

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@ronyfadel

3 years

Someone ordered 5000 education licenses for Audio Trimmer in 🇨🇦

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@ronyfadel

2 years

This was a very good year to be an indie hacker.

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@ronyfadel

3 years

#iostipschallenge day 7 I call `dispatchPrecondition` in my codebase to control on which queues methods and callbacks are executed. Doc: e.g. to make sure a callback is executed on the main queue:

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@ronyfadel

2 years

One sale every 5 minutes on average

Rony

@ronyfadel

2 years

Sales have been rolling in this morning, about 1 every 10 minutes

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@ronyfadel

1 year

ChatGPT is my app localization best friend ❤️

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@ronyfadel

2 years

Today I closed all my Chrome tabs and I haven't felt so much relief in months

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@ronyfadel

2 years

Free app idea: a keyboard extension that contains 2-factor auth codes

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@ronyfadel

2 years

New milestone for VidCap ☺️

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@ronyfadel

10 months

AsyncImage doesn't cache? wtf?

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@ronyfadel

2 years

⬆️ Companies are definitely desperate for talent

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@ronyfadel

1 year

VidCap is nearing $4000 mrr with virtually no marketing efforts. Can’t wait to take it to the next level.

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@ronyfadel

1 year

Just met a founder that raised $800k pre-idea. Wtf?

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@ronyfadel

2 years

$35k in revenue in Dec ‘22: - $5k consulting (billable hours dipped sharply). - $30k in software sales. Main driver in software sales was AI Profile Pic (Dec was peak avatar hype month).

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@ronyfadel

1 year

The power of getting the word out. One mention of Batteries in a @SnazzyQ video resulted in $5k worth of sales so far.

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@ronyfadel

6 months

Once you realize that solopreneurship means no meetings, no Slack, no emails and keeping 100% of profits, it makes it tougher to want to seek out a co-founder. What do you think?

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@ronyfadel

2 years

@JustinWong1993 - Don't attempt to learn new tech for a new project, stick with what you know. - Spend money to save time, esp. with the parts you're not an expert at (hire freelancers on upwork, fiverr) - Don't be afraid of reinvesting all of what you make on the business to grow it.

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@ronyfadel

1 year

If you're part of Apple's small business program, and you sell an item for €3.99 on the App Store: - Apple takes €0.6 (15%) - €0.84 goes to VAT (21%) → You're left with €2.55 (64%)

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