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His crowdfunding round was oversubscribed in 24 hours. He shut it down at 3x the target.His crowdfunding round was oversubscribed in 24 hours. He shut it down at 3x the target.
Jelte Liebrand walked away from a VC term sheet, then turned his app's own users into 2,500 investors — and his first piece of advice to founders considering the same path is "don't raise at all."
"What do you want me for then?" The icon designer's dilemma in the age of AI"What do you want me for then?" The icon designer's dilemma in the age of AI
Matthew Skiles has spent 15 years hand-crafting the app icons you see all over WWDC videos — and he got his start with no portfolio, no formal training, and a lucky break.
A user costs $30 and returns $50. Yuliya Lennox says that’s bad.A user costs $30 and returns $50. Yuliya Lennox says that’s bad.
Yuliya Lennox spent a decade scaling apps—and learned that a campaign making $20 per acquired user can be the clearest sign its creative is not good enough.
A license to bill: Selling a Mac app without a merchant of recordA license to bill: Selling a Mac app without a merchant of record
How Arborist sells outside the Mac App Store using RevenueCat and Stripe Managed Payments
We partnered with Stripe so your agent can monetize your appWe partnered with Stripe so your agent can monetize your app
RevenueCat and Stripe Projects make app monetization setup as simple as one CLI command, so developers and coding agents can go from idea to payments faster.
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A 19-day ChatGPT wrapper that made $10,000 in 36 hours
Joe Fabisevich left Twitter three days before the Elon Musk acquisition to build a link-saving app — but a scrappy side project taught him the true power of a single well-placed press email.
Almost everyone who pays for subscriptions is already on iOS 26Almost everyone who pays for subscriptions is already on iOS 26
The business case for dropping support for earlier iOS versions
You could give a founder $20 million to hire engineers. Without product taste, they’d light it all on fire.You could give a founder $20 million to hire engineers. Without product taste, they’d light it all on fire.
Andrew Maguire helped scale two App of the Year winners and now invests in consumer apps at Volo Ventures — and he's telling founders the best path to $10 million is to never raise a dollar of venture capital.
Recover churned subscribers automatically with win-back campaigns for webRecover churned subscribers automatically with win-back campaigns for web
Win back subscribers who cancel, automatically. When someone's access expires, we send them an email with a discount offer. They resubscribe on the web, so you keep more of the money.
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A patron plan with no extra features outsold expectations — and proved design alone can be a businessA patron plan with no extra features outsold expectations — and proved design alone can be a business
Andy Allen built a 2-person app studio whose most expensive subscription tier unlocks essentially no extra features — and it outsells expectations every year.
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Your app is perfectly optimized. That’s why nobody remembers it.Your app is perfectly optimized. That’s why nobody remembers it.
When every app copies the same playbook, the only advantage left is meaning something.
Understanding Google Play’s Billing Choice: a complete guide to offering alternative billingUnderstanding Google Play’s Billing Choice: a complete guide to offering alternative billing
Billing Choice comes down to two decisions — who renders the choice screen and where payment happens — over one shared setup and one mandatory sale report.
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