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I make Mac utilities at https://fadel.io/ https://fadel.io/ and iOS apps (https://podbuddy.app/ https://podbuddy.app/). I’m at $4k/month and revenue is growing

I make Mac utilities at https://fadel.io/ https://fadel.io/ and iOS apps (https://podbuddy.app/ https://podbuddy.app/). I’m at $4k/month and revenue is growing. I do iOS consulting as well, but I’m inching closer to going indie full time.

gardaani 5y ago
You have so many of them. How much time do you use for customer support? I'd like to publish multiple apps, but I'm afraid that customer support will take all my time.
- ronyfadel 5y ago
  I get about 10 support requests per week. If I get many of the same, I add info to the FAQ.
dado3212 5y ago
Would you mind sharing what the revenue breakdown looks like between these? Do you find Mac or iOS is more lucrative?
- ronyfadel 5y ago
  The iOS app is much newer and much more niche, but it’s starting to break ground. For now most of the revenue is in macOS but my ultimate goal is to make iOS be my #1 platform in terms of revenue. That’s because, simply, I’d rather offload a lot of marketing and deployment/payment bandwidth to the App Store to focus on the products.
  - lagrange77 5y ago
    May i ask, if you are avoiding the MAS because of technical restrictions or because of the revenue cut? I'm also developing a Mac app and did not decide yet on MAS vs. Paddle vs. an application to Setapp.
sersi 5y ago
Just bought mission control plus (As soon as I read the description, my first reaction was "Take my money", I wouldn't have minded paying 15-20 usd for that but to be fair, 8.99 meant that I just bought blindly instead of doing the free trial). Experience buying on your site is not great: 1. After entering my credit card details, I'm redirected back to your site without any message (I did receive a confirmation email a few minutes later) 2. It's a nitpick, but there's nothing I dislike more than forcing me to convert to my local currency. First the exchange rate is much worse than what my credit card charges, second I lose out on miles.

gardaani 5y ago

You have so many of them. How much time do you use for customer support? I'd like to publish multiple apps, but I'm afraid that customer support will take all my time.

ronyfadel 5y ago
I get about 10 support requests per week. If I get many of the same, I add info to the FAQ.

dado3212 5y ago

Would you mind sharing what the revenue breakdown looks like between these? Do you find Mac or iOS is more lucrative?

ronyfadel 5y ago
The iOS app is much newer and much more niche, but it’s starting to break ground. For now most of the revenue is in macOS but my ultimate goal is to make iOS be my #1 platform in terms of revenue. That’s because, simply, I’d rather offload a lot of marketing and deployment/payment bandwidth to the App Store to focus on the products.
- lagrange77 5y ago
  May i ask, if you are avoiding the MAS because of technical restrictions or because of the revenue cut? I'm also developing a Mac app and did not decide yet on MAS vs. Paddle vs. an application to Setapp.

sersi 5y ago

Just bought mission control plus (As soon as I read the description, my first reaction was "Take my money", I wouldn't have minded paying 15-20 usd for that but to be fair, 8.99 meant that I just bought blindly instead of doing the free trial). Experience buying on your site is not great: 1. After entering my credit card details, I'm redirected back to your site without any message (I did receive a confirmation email a few minutes later) 2. It's a nitpick, but there's nothing I dislike more than forcing me to convert to my local currency. First the exchange rate is much worse than what my credit card charges, second I lose out on miles.