Made my first $ in years

When I was in college I built a tool for iOS developers that helped them convert Photoshop designs into iOS code. It was my first real taste of making money online and I've been trying to recreate that success ever since.

Let's just say it's been a dry couple of years...

I made misc. iOS apps over the years and they'd get a few downloads, but cumulatively less than $300 over the years. I'm not inclined to count that as they were one-off little utilities and not businesses in the traditional sense.

Around this time last year, I started working on/ off on https://stickerspot.digitalbunker.dev/

It's a no-code platform for graphic designers to publish stickers on the iOS App Store. Luckily being an iOS developer, I knew that this process was far too technically involved for most designers and I knew I could automate the majority of the behind-the-scenes operations.

I would see people land on the site and stick around for a bit, but never convert. I changed my pricing model to be just a $5 fee + commission on the sales of the sticker pack. Now, as of 9:14 pm today I landed my first sale for this business. It feels great being able to have even a resemblance of the success I had in college. Plus, I feel less like an imposter in the IH community now.

Let's hope that now I have the first customer in place, I can leverage that social proof to get the next hundred :)