Ask HN: How much money does your iOS app make? | Hacker News Reader

Ask HN: How much money does your iOS app make?

18 pointsSomeoneAtHN7 comments

Just came across to a post by the developer of River Of News, Dylan Ginsburg, disclosed the amount he earned so far (http://blog.riverofnewsapp.com/2010/10/how-much-money-can-you-make-on-app.html). I couldn't agree any more when he says "I don't know why this should be such a secret. I'm going to tell you how much money I make."

So if you are an iOS developer like Dylan that wants to reveal your figures to our curious HNer, feel free to share below.

It's okay if you simply want to share the approximation or you don't want to disclose your app name. We all respect that.

View on HN

My app started out slow but has been pretty successful through word of mouth. I've done no advertising or marketing as this started out as a class project.

In the 5 months since my app was released (this is cumulative for all versions of the app both paid and free):

June: 500

July: 2K

August: 16K

September: 23K

October: 11K (so far)

My app is FantasyMonster (http://www.fantasymonsterapp.com)

I have similar thoughts as the author of the blog post. Doing your own thing is way better than working for a corporation. I plan on quitting in a few months and traveling the world with my wife while working on more apps.

I make over $1000 a month, but less than $5000 a month (on an average month, not including months with updates) from my two main iPhone apps: Color Stream (http://colorstreamapp.com/) and Dayta (http://daytaapp.com).

Thanks for being open and sharing this. I agree with the author of this article that more openness with regards to sales people are getting as iOS developers is only a good thing. If people had more open discussions about this sort of thing, perhaps it will quell some fears newcomers may have before joining the Apple dev program.

I have free and paid versions of iDealyzer on iOS and Android. Each month the income is roughly a 50/50 split between app sales and affiliate commission (people buy stuff from my app). January(not the first month) income was $150 September was $1,000.

To quickly help others who may be curious but don't want to copy/paste the link:

Dylan Ginsburg has pulled in just under $21,000 USD profit between 8/19-10/13, 2010.

Very good article.

Can you possibly edit your submission and at the article link to it? That way people can click right through to what you're linking.

Clickable: http://blog.riverofnewsapp.com/2010/10/how-much-money-can-yo...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com