Her App Made $5000+ in a Week

Serial maker Alyssa X writes about her experience building and launching a MacOS app called Later, which clears and restores your workspace with a couple of clicks.

(Check out the slick demo of the app on the landing page.)

Alyssa had the idea for the product at the end of January, built and launched it over the next two months, and by March 21st had earned $6600 in revenue 🤑

What I love most about Alyssa’s story is that she figured out a ton while building and marketing the product. For example, she learned that “using Swift in Xcode was the best option” for building the app, so she went and learned that on the fly.

When it came to marketing, she saw another maker had success on Reddit so she created an account and gave that a try.

Alyssa has over 6,000 upvotes across her 8 launches on ProductHunt, but it looks like few have been as financially successful as Later. Still, it’s clear that she greatly expands her experience and skillset with every product she builds, making each subsequent launch more and more likely to succeed 📈

Related: 12 years after I started building web applications, I’ve hit $100k ARR