$3000 Per Month Deleting Tweets

Someone on Hacker News claims to have created an app called Twitter Archive Eraser…

In a few clicks, load your Twitter archive, select tweets to keep or delete using our powerful search features, and watch them get deleted in real-time.

Pricing ranges from $9 to $39, one-time payments.

Apparently the service pulls in $3000 a month in revenue, despite the founder not having done much with it for the past 2 years 😎

Another post on HN from 2020…

My app Twitter Archive Eraser […] used to be free, then I added a donation button and people, while barely donated, used to say that this is something they would have paid for!

I worked on a paid tier (learnt a tremendous amount about actually selling an app, integration with payment processors, licensing, more legal stuff than I wanted to etc.)

Almost from the get go, it started making +$3k/mo. With more changes and offering a Mac version along a Windows version, it averages around +$7k/mo of revenue consistently. I’m the only person on it and have a full time job. Barely need to make code changes and it requires minimal effort for customer support.

So for a while there it was earning him $7000/month 🤑

Apparently he built the app in the first place as a way to bulk-delete his own tweets.

However, the business might be dead by the time you read this as Twitter was scheduled to shut down free access to their API yesterday (Feb 9) 😢