I built my smallest app ever. It hit #1 in Photo & Video on apple app store.

Over the years, I have built a lot of apps. Big projects, complex flows, teams, roadmaps, and all that jazz. My app TrimrPix was the exact opposite.

I just had one small, annoying problem. Images take up too much space and metadata can be a mess. I wanted a quick, lightweight solution on my Mac to resize and compress images without opening heavy editors. So I built a small menu bar tool.

When it was done, I figured I might as well publish it. No big ambitions. And then it hit number one in the Photo & Video category in Denmark.

To be honest, I still do not know exactly how the App Store algorithm calculates these things. But one thing became very clear to me. Small, hyper-focused problems are highly underrated. We almost always talk about massive visions and platforms, but sometimes people just want a tool that does one single thing really well.

You can check it out here: https://trimrpix.iamjarl.com/ The code is also open source on GitHub if you want to see the SwiftUI setup.

Have you ever experienced that your smallest, simplest ideas ended up getting the most traction?