Side Project

It all started when my wife sent me this photo in January of 2022

https://preview.redd.it/rx8iowipvt2c1.jpg?width=591&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f6eb8c05f3c35a49cd6c8c88ffca171cd2778ad

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

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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!<