New app: $48,708 in 4 weeks. No ads

Hey guys, I apologise for being a little absent in the last 2-3 weeks. I want to share our latest app launch which generated $48,708 of revenue in one month (and still counting), using the Trending Keywords Method.

I will record a proper case study video exclusively for this community, but I wanted to share the results with you already now. Here is the story:

In mid-August we recorded a podcast with
@M O
where we talked about the Tea Dating Advice app which has gone viral and was #1 on the App Store for several weeks. I was blown away.
With
@Evrim Demir
we noticed an opportunity in the market for a competing app and we build the fastest MVP that we have ever done. It took us just 6 hours to make the app and submit to Apple for review. When I say "us" I mean mostly Evrim 😅 I didn't even do the design as I usually do, we used Cursor to help us out. I spent most of my time on making the App Store screenshots lol.
We submitted the app on the 25th of August and thanks to the Trending Keywords Method (see our Classroom section) we immediately started to make about $1k - $1.5k / day.
This was a great start for an app with no ads or no marketing. Then a few weeks later, our biggest competitor was taken down by Apple and we suddenly started to make $6k / day in profit. Awesome.
This lasted for a few days, then the competition app returned to the App Store and now we're back to make about $1k - $1.5k / day.
I don't know how long this trend will continue, but even if we stay like this without further growth, the app will continue making at least $30k / month. We are two co-founders so that's $15k / month per person from 6 hours of work 🚀 on one product. This doesn't include the rest of our portfolio.
App asset valuation is about 3 - 4x annual EBITDA. It could be argued that this app would be valued at around $1M right now. That's $1M from 6h of work (and 10 years of experience 😅)
Our MVP was functional but definitely didn't include full feature scope or award-winning design. This really showed me that demand & distribution is so much more important than features and design. If you catch a big wave, all you need is a simple MVP that has one core feature and is "good enough". Not perfect.

I started this latest app studio with

@Evrim Demir

18 months ago and we've had some wins but this is the biggest one so far. I'm sharing all this with you because $30k / month is life changing sums of money for most people. That's $360k / year on autopilot. We have only done 2 updates to the app (which didn't impact the growth actually).

I want you all to feel the incredible freedom and abundance that comes from creating your own destiny. I believe that mobile apps are the best vehicle to build wealth today. Nothing would make me happier than hear you guys share stories of how your next app will make $100k / month!

Let me know if you have any questions, I'm free to share all insights we gained.

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