My wife's app went viral on X and made $233 in one day
It all started when my wife sent me this photo in January of 2022.
She asked if I can turn this into an app for her. I said, "Yeah, sure thing babe! I'll be done in a week." 😅
Product development
Well... 10 months later I had kept procrastinating until December of 2022 when I eventually started the design and development of the app.
It was my first build-in-public product. When I started I didn't expect anything really. It was a FREE app. People following my journey loved the app and the story behind it. So I kept posting and updating them.
A couple months after I launched, people started asking for premium features like cross-platform support, sync / backup, and rich text formatting, image attachment, etc.
I quickly added those, and added a paywall as well. I had to go down this path since these features would require a server for them to work.
Going viral
Fast forward 11 months later: Someone made a post about the app on X and it went viral, generating 400k+ views and 400+ quotes in one day.
24 hrs after the app went viral:
- 23 purchases
- $222 in revenue
- 1,061 installs
This blew my mind. I didn't imagine the app would go viral or generate this much revenue in a single day.
I guess what they say is true: just build something useful and people would come.
The app is called Obim, which means "my heart" in my native language.
Available for download on iOS and Android: obim.lunabase.xyz.
Hi, would love to know how you distribute it. Such a neat and powerful app. Thank you.
Proud of Her/You.
That's incredibly impressive, Amani! Proud of her. $233 in one day - that's quite the accomplishment!
Very interesting, given that lately people here don't talk that great about X as a distribution channel 😅 Congrats Amani!
Great!
Congrats. What tech stack did you use to build it?
That's absolutely fantastic news! 🎉 Congratulations to your wife on the tremendous success of her app! 🚀 It's inspiring to see such rapid growth and financial success. I hope this is just the beginning of even greater achievements for her. Wishing her continued success, more downloads, and increased revenue in the days to come! 💪✨ Keep up the amazing work!
I don't know why... But it really does feel fantastic.
But I don't know why... And that's annoying me. :)
Do you have any insight into the 'why'?
Congrats! What happens on the 22nd of each month tho? It seems like a pattern 😅
Wow, that's amazing! your journey from procrastination to success is super inspiring!
Incredible journey! Your app's success is a testament to perseverance. The viral response is well-deserved—congrats on Obim's achievements! 👏🚀
That's a good story.
I was under 100 followers when one of my posts went viral and was viewed 8k+ times. I love the algorithm of X, Reddit, and IndieHackers.
That's a funny story, a both simple and great idea :) really visual way to see how you felt some days/weeks/months ago
Damn that's actually a cool idea. Can i see the tweet? Maybe you could pay an influencer on TikTok to promote it? clearly an opportunity for more viral marketing campaigns there
This is so simple yet a great idea, I will download it right away and start using it!
It's awesome to see things like that. It means that you're doing a great job. Keep doing
This kind of things happens. Glad to see you taking advantage of that!
This is really impressive
That's awesome! I love the style direction you took it in, and the scale of Awesome to Awful is great. Can I ask what stack you use to dev?
I used Ionic + Capacitor + React.
ooh cool, ty!
This is amazing. Building an audience while you build is very important
Second this. Building an audience has helped me validate what I'm doing, and my sanity.
Do you have any plans or have you already done anything to engage with those that have shared it on X?
Great Idea :) not too complicated and kept simple - I like it!