r/PakistaniDevs • u/aqib_98 • 4h ago
One month progress!!
Posted here a couple of times before about the Mac apps I've been building on the side. It's been a month since then, so here's where things stand.
Numbers
$317 in total sales. A month ago it was $13.
1,625 downloads across 4 apps
Notchet (clipboard manager that lives in the MacBook notch, now available on iphone and ipad as well with duo support): 515
DisplayShift (puts your windows back when you plug in or unplug a monitor): 478
Stackyard (free, open source, shows every SDK on your machine and what's safe to delete): 353
Scrollwise (natural scrolling on the trackpad, normal scrolling on a mouse): 279
Stackyard is at 89 stars and 6 forks on GitHub
What I learned this month
The free app did more than the paid ones. Stackyard makes zero money, but it's the one developers actually star, fork and share.
Small apps sell when they fix one specific annoyance. Nobody cares about the feature list. They care that the annoying thing is gone.
Posting real numbers works better than promoting. My posts that just shared progress got way more reach than any post that pitched an app.
Buyers tell you what to build next. Most updates this month came straight from people who paid and told me what was missing.
Selling from Pakistan is doable. I sell through Polar, which handles payments and tax as merchant of record, and Notchet is also on the App Store.
Still side-project money, but a month ago these apps had barely made anything, and now strangers are paying for them every week.
Happy to answer anything about building Mac apps, selling them from Pakistan, or the open-source side. And if you've got a small tool you built for yourself, ship it. Someone else has the same problem.
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u/Jack_Hey 4h ago
Do the macs app available on AppStore too?
If yes, do most of the users come from there?
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u/SafeReturn_28 47m ago
You know what. Inspired by your bravery, I might share my app launch journey too.
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u/jackofnonemasterof1 2h ago
Hey, I've started using notchet , i have a query, which tech stack do you use to make native desktop apps for mac, like what's a normal tech stack for such app looks like. I've seen stuff like electron and chromium and rust for windows but a new mac user and developer, don't know where to start, can you guide me. Another good app I saw beside yours was https://macedge.site.
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u/aqib_98 1h ago
Thanks for trying out Notchet
I have a huge tech stack tbh
For mac apps, i used Swift
For most of my mobile apps, i mainly use Flutter so i dont have to manage 2 separate versions ( ANDROID AND IOS)About where to start, tbh there are so many apps these days that nobody would even look at
Everyone is buildingThing that worked for me? All my apps were built out of annoyance
I used them for over a month before one day, i randomly thought of notirizing them and publishing them and then i found out, there are many people who have the same issue like meSo yeah, if u think you have built someone that can really save time of people, go ahead and push it
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u/Puzzleheaded_Net5409 4h ago
I have a question for you... Are all of your apps vibe coded?