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The article reflects on a ten-year journey as an independent software developer, highlighting fortuitous moments and experiences in the tech industry.
An indie developer shares how their apps went from 13.5 million total installs to just 499 active devices, reflecting on how the Google Play ecosystem and discoverability have changed over a decade.
The author shares their experience of earning over 500,000 from making apps in two years, emphasizing passive income and the easygoing life of freelancing, and summarizes lessons learned on market research, designing paywalls, and community promotion, believing that the AI era is the best time for creators.
A practical marketing guide for independent developers and startup teams, detailing how to promote products through content platform seeding, user value translation, search term optimization, etc., emphasizing the concept of marketing upfront and content is king.
This tweet highlights indie developer Tibo's achievement of surpassing $700K in monthly revenue across five core apps, and notes that the author abandoned plans to distribute his app SuperX due to a suboptimal experience with the Lemon Squeezy distribution platform.
A booming micro-business on Xianyu: devs use vibe-coding to spin up OpenAI-compatible relay APIs. Low barrier, tiny cost, huge demand—prime time for nimble indie developers to profit.
A developer’s self-mocking timeline on social media captures the slide from steady employment to solo coding, admitting the long-term low income leaves him embarrassed and regretful.