It all started when my wife sent me this photo in January of 2022
She asked if i can turn this into an app for her. I said yeah sure thing babe! I’ll be done in a week. 😅
Well… 10 months later, and i kept procrastinating until December of 2022 when i eventually started design and development of the app.
It was my first build in public product. You can follow the journey on X . When i started i didn’t expect anything really it was a FREE app. But People following my journey loved the app and the idea behind it. So i kept posting and updating my audience.
A couple months after i launched, people started asking for premium features like cross platform support, sync / backup, rich text formatting, image attachment etc.
I quickly added those and added a paywall as well. I had to go down this path, since these features would require a server for them to work.
Fast forward 11 months later someone made this post about the app on X and it went viral. Generating 400k+ views, 400+ quotes in one day.
24hrs after the app went viral:
23 Purchases
$222 Revenue
1,061 Installs
This blew my mind. I didn’t imagine the app to go viral or generate this much revenue in a single day.
I guess what they say is true. Just build something useful and people would come.
!The app is called Obim - Which means my heart in my native language.!<
!Available for download on iOS and Android!<
Thanks! Now I spent about an hour of my morning on youtube listening to Ikwerre music and conversations. Beautiful language and interesting history!