Niche Mac Apps Earn Him $6,000/Month

Alin Panaitiu is a software developer from Romania 🇷🇴

He left his corporate job a year ago and has been living off the revenue generated by his macOS apps.

Lunar.fyi seems to be his most successful project. It’s an app that gives you more control over external monitors (brightness, volume, etc) 🖥

Alin also runs an app studio called The Low-Tech Guys with a friend, where they hire themselves out for $120/hour to build apps for other businesses.

In a recent Hacker News post, Alin notes that Lunar and his other apps are making between $3,500 and $9,000 per month in revenue 🤑…

It’s not much for some parts of the world. But I’m well enough from this that I even took the time to build a small calendar app from which all the funds will go to my brother’s college costs so he can stop working 12h/day jobs.

💡 He also shares a key insight he had about building apps…

Before this I tried creating paid web services but none took off. I realized I actually don’t use any indie web product after 8 years of professional coding. I’m only using web products from big companies like Google, fly.io, Amazon etc.

Desktop apps on the other hand, most that I use and love are made by single developers.

This is why Alin has focused on building macOS apps rather than trying to create yet another SaaS. And it’s worked out well for him 💪

Might be worth thinking along these lines yourself.

Is your small business trying to compete with massive companies?

Could you pivot to an adjacent niche where the competition isn’t so tough? 🤔

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