$100K/mo from 4 Shopify apps solo (not me 😋)
I came across this tweet today:
Björn Forsberg is a solo founder who has been developing Shopify apps for over 8 years. He just reached $100K per month!
What's interesting 3 out of his 4 apps are one-time payment.
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Also, interesting that it seems to have been a 5 year journey, indie hackers need to remember that.
Definitely, it's a marathon. You can see 5 years on the chart, but he talks about 8 years:
Another observation is that if you look at 2015 it was only maybe 3 or 4K per month. That's not a lot considering 3 years in.
I suppose its easy to overlook that he may have been holding up a full time job for those 3 years. So in that instance an extra 3-4k a month is amazing.
Obviously, I don't know that, but a lot of us are doing this as a sideline until the money makes sense as we have families we need to feed and cloth.
Totally agree! I also have a family to feed. I've been developing a Shopify app on the side for over 2.5 years. It's just 2 weeks ago when I quit my day job. I could afford it only because I reached 1.5K/month and built up some savings.
Related: If anyone is looking to build a Shopify app in 2021, I've written an extensive guide on making money building Shopify micro-SaaS apps that might be helpful!
Interesting, but it looks like an extreme outlier though: https://www.indiehackers.com/@dbrereton/shopify-app-store-analysis-18218cbcb2
Shopify grew by a factor of 2x since then, so I'd guesstimate the median app monthly revenue to be around $400.
Bjorn is awesome, I recommend following him on twitter.
Related, if anyone is interested in learning what goes into building and running a Shopify App, I am launching a course on it.
https://courses.iangrabill.com/how-to-build-a-shopify-app