During my senior year in college, I wanted to build a social discovery app that helped me find the most compatible people possible to pair me up on video chats with. I envisioned using grandiose AI at the time, but settled for a simpler ranking algo.
After a long, long tread. I've finally hit $2k in MRR. I use firestore w/a serverless set-up, and the app scales up nicely. My profit margins are over 99.9% (aside from the 15% cut Apple is taking from me).
Used SwiftUI to build the entire app. I hope to make more video chatting apps like this, but man was it a TON of work by myself. I had help from one designer with logos but that's about it.
It was especially hard for me to balance iterating on this with my day job (I only really had time on weekends).
I hope it lasts for a few years and I can bank $100K from it. That'd be pretty cool
