How can someone with zero skills create a money-making mobile application?

Question

Has anyone ever tried creating a monetized mobile application without any coding experience? Can you provide tips or help you out as far as your personal mobile application creation experience goes?

Answer 1

This format is so much better than before man, it was too bombastic and annoying.. this is really nice and calm, im very happy with this and hope you continue like this!

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Thanks for the feedback  Always listening :)

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No siempre, no respondes los emails de tus seguidores (newsletter)

Answer 2

The most important question the host never asked. Whats the net profit ? 40k ARR means nothing if he is spending 35k in ads and developer salaries.

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The developer is only making 3k or less

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he doesnt spend much on  ads he use organic tiktok , have more than 120 k

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40k MRR, not annual revenue

Answer 3

Apps that appear free then hit you with a hard paywall, especially after wasting your time with a long “onboarding process” is such cancer. I can’t believe Apple allows it tbh

Answer 4

Mobile apps are untapped?!  If blue ocean means untapped, mobile is the boiling Red Sea

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"regardless of how saturated the market may seem" -  Thats every single platform, not just mobile

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Thought I was in a time machine back to 2010. Has this guy been in a coma the last 14 years? Mobile apps are tapped out. Everyone and their grandma has tried making one.

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I don't think this is it either. Mobile apps are not untapped as a solution. The problem he is solving is probably even less untapped (quitting smoking). So basically what we're left with is marketing. The guy is a good marketer. If he just outright said "I'm good at marketing" then he wouldn't be a good marketer, which is what this video is - more marketing.

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right here was a goated response… thank you

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yh I guess I did leave out the marketing side of things. In all I think it's both.

An untapped problem + great marketing = success in the mobile application industry.

Then comes the hard work.

Answer 5

Mobile apps are… *checks notes* untapped??!?

Answer 6

As a software engineer who’s been building iOS apps since 2009, I can share the recipe for $45k/month in sales in the “untapped” mobile app market. Ready?

Drumroll…

Just spend $50k on ads!

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In the last 90 days he said he generated $112k in revenue. Do you really think he would spend $100k+ in ads just to lose money? Why would he want to do that?

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​@@jonjones8827 this is a popular business model in the IT space. Yes very possible. Hence why he is only speaking on revenue.

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It’s untapped that’s why

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​@@jonjones8827 This might surprise you, but sometimes people just say shit that isn't true

Answer 7

"What's your tech stack?"
"Upwork and 99projects"
- Steve 2024

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fr I just wanted to know if he´s using native languages or cross platform. But I think he´s only building them in iOS, so he´s going with swift

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mean the building done by his team, so he really don’t know

Answer 8

Top 2, maybe number 1 vid on this channel, very quick and to the point advice that anyone can follow to build a successful business/app

Answer 9

Homeboy got lucky. Doesn't know the industry at all. 55,000 apps were released in February 2024 alone. Untapped my ass. Sincerely a solopreneur who's been working in tech my entire career and have yet to have any of the hundreds of apps I have built be bought.

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He makes it sound easy. But he assembled a team to build it. That costs a lot of money. Don’t be fooled - this is not easy.

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is easy, so it’s go hard or go home son

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​@@sleepchatbuild it yourself man.  Plenty of videos and resources.

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Also its not always the app it's the marketing, storytelling, branding and everything other than the app itself

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Hundreds? There's your mistake right there, if a random person can throw it together in a day, there's probably next to no market value.

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what's it like to read words that aren't there?

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Yeah something that I had to do a bit of research on because he kept saying he made Wordle but seemed to young to be the guy that made wordle. So I looked it up and this guy made a word game app prior to the popular wordle back when he was in highschool. He then just forgot about it and then Wordle comes out and people start downloading his app because he has the name. For what it looks like he then sold it to a another publisher. He got insanely lucky. Dude makes it sound like he has no knowledge of coding but he definitely does. Doing the research now this video screams as advertising for his puff app which he made after college. I get the host of the video is trying to create content and there is some useful information but the host loses a lot of credibility by not stating facts or asking obvious questions like "Can you explain more what you mean by the market isn't saturated?". The host probably just sent a list of questions and said send me a video with your answers but should have had follow up questions to make it feel more like a one on one interview.

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it is doable i learned it also.

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Hi! What marketing strategy do you have?

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55,000 apps in the whole month February alone? That does sound untapped, compared to the 400k to 3.9 million websites that are being created every day. that's 15 - 46 websites per second.

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Okay bro whatever you say.

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He said the app(puffcount) has been live for 4 years before blowing it up with marketing

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When you consider most of those apps are garbage template apps that you see all those terrible ads for. Instead of complaining massive realize that you’re the problem and go do something about it

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​@D4G_  Like on television, most people on YouTube are actors.

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It’s not about market saturation. It’s about effectively marketing the value you’re offering to the correct target audience.

Answer 10

So if you outsource development, how do you maintain your app and implement new features? Freelancers can go dark, or have plenty of other gigs going on. These platforms are ok for small, one time gigs but as a supply chain it's totally unpredictable and unreliable. I believe if app development is your thing you are better off being a developer yourself.

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Ask them For the original code brother.

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Treat your developers well, build a strong relationship with them, and start to build out your team. I am a big fan of outsourcing my weaknesses. Great businesses are built by great teams

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He spent a lot of time talking about starting off as well. I'm sure once the initial customers started coming in he was able to develop a relationship with some of the developers and hire them properly.

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True enough. It's very inspirational to see young entrepreneurs build an empire out of thin air. I've been struggling 5 years to roll out our first app, tho we are just a team of two, myself the UI/UX/marketing guy and my mate, former co-worker the developer. He's a good engineer but lazy AF and we ain't going anywhere :) Albeit it's just a pet project for both of us. Seeing this video it's clear I need to make some adjustments to the business plan.

Answer 11

i like how he says apps are untapped but all his ideas come from apps that already exist

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And app templates already made…
And app developers already developing apps..
and apps used to hire, design, manage and market other apps lmao

Answer 12

heavy like to Steven for pronouncing "niche" correctly

Answer 13

Mobile apps are untapped? What decade is this guy living in?

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says the scammer

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Lost credibility when he said that alright

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It's not hating, he's just stating facts. Why don't you check the market and validate for yourself instead of taking what every one says to heart.

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you thought you did something

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is the best take here

Answer 14

Not sure why this video didn't quite hit for me.. possibly the "scripted video chat interview" setup.. just seemed a bit uninspiring/soulless

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agreed

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I agree with the more scripted interview - there was no emotion, or humor and seemed impersonal. I also lost it at the hard paywall...

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I actually like it.  I prefer these condensed scripted interviews over those one hour ceo interviews.  Also, hard paywalls work the best in regards to revenue.  I’m just not willing to that in my apps because I like having a large free user base.

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Cause them both are pretending to have skin in the business
Obvious fakers

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Maybe but it was packed with useful information so it took preparation.  It respected my time as a viewer more because there was no time wasted

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Most Youtubers are actors.

Answer 15

I really enjoyed this! Your explanations were clear and engaging, and I appreciate how you explain it.

Answer 16

So tired of these videos. Stop suggesting that this stuff is easy or that you’ll find success starting from a small amount of capital.
I’m a pro full-stack developer and I will tell you that nothing is as easy at it seems, and marketing will take months to years to get a strong user base.

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Yeah, the costs are not fully detailed, it's more of a superficial thing... you said you're a developer, so I have a question for you: how much would cost  me to build a more complex app/platform? Something similar to etoro or trading 212?

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​@@GeorgeMunte How long is a piece of string? There is a reason 95% of dev projects go over-time and over-budget. At the first stage you have to perfectly outline exactly which features, systems, architecture, manpower (1 full stack dev? 1 frontend one backend dev? 1 designer, 1 dev.... etc, etc.).
Are you expecting the devs to do all the design? Do you also have a product manager?

The list goes on and on, and without extremely precise details upfront, I could give you a random number but it wouldn't be meaningful, or accurate.

Also, when it comes to financial products (like eToro) You're talking a completely other game. Not only are there SERIOUS security implications that need to be covered, but you can't just launch a trading app without implicit approval from the relevant agencies (depending on which country you live).

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i think he said the app has been 4 years in age and he hit that profitable revenue level the last 6 months

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the thing is that you need a lot of money to go through some fails. i mean if you try a lot, something will eventually work, but it will also waste a lot of resources not everyone has. if you don't have at least $100.000 in the back, doing random apps might not be a good idea.

Answer 17

Reading the comments and digesting the content.  This guy made it from 1 in a millions apps out there and able to make some revenue.  Good for him. He is fortunate and has grit to stick around for 4 years of tweaking at it.

Answer 18

"Not a lot of people are doing mobile apps" there about 20 million mobile apps.

Answer 19

Very helpful video, thanks. Also love the updated format

Answer 20

how do you maintain code and fix bugs? how often do you update your apps? do you use the same developers to do that?