Can AI generated apps make money? My experience with SwiftUI & ChatGPT
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- In this video I revisit SwiftUI apps that were created using ChatGPT for coding and Midjourney for icon design. A year later I share the revenue these AI-generated apps have produced. Join me as I delve into the potential of AI in app development, assess the financial results, and share my insights on whether AI tools can genuinely enhance productivity and profitability.
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Great insight!
You keep bringing up 20% of projects making any real impact. Sounds like the Pareto principle at work.
It’s weird how that number appears so often. Something to it 🤔
Hey Adam! Awesome work.
I have a few questions below; can you please help me with them?
1) What is the most beneficial method for in-app purchases?
• Weekly and yearly subscriptions with a free trial for the weekly plan
• Weekly and monthly plans without a free trial, but users can access or generate 3-4 questions/images for free
2) What is the best way to implement in-app purchases?
• From the start when we launch the app
• Should we wait until we acquire a certain number of users? (If so, how many users should we have before implementing in-app purchases?)
Good questions and probably content for an entire video. But here’s my initial thoughts:
Test weekly vs monthly vs yearly. Not all app niches are the same. What works for one won’t work for another. In the video I showcase some of these obscurities
I implement inapp purchases initially with StoreKit. As the app grows and I need better access management I use RevenueCat
My model has worked well releasing the core functionality free. Letting ASO do its thing. Then adding new features and monetization (around 6 months later). Helps with free marketing, user acquisition and getting the word out
Basic calculation I do in my head: monthly users acquired divided by 2 = approximate monthly revenue
1000 users each month = $500 / month
A good base to start with but isn’t a strict rule. Again, niche dependent
Amazing content! I already followed you on Twitter but have never seen your youtube content. I just saw some videos and I loved it! Real honest work to get some bucks from Apps. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you’re enjoying these - I’m having fun making them 😊
Your channel is amazing!
Keep going bro ! Godspeed 🔥
I will! Thanks for the encouragement
This was a great watch, thanks for sharing! I feel like you've completely captured the struggle that I'm sitting with when it comes to building in public - spending so much time sharing the work you're doing that there's no time to actually do the work. Looking forward to seeing the tools you come up with to solve this.
The video I made about creating a Tetris clone took longer to edit than actually making the thing. The struggle is real
@@adamlyttleapps hahaha 😂 I can totally identify with that!
Awesome video Adam! Your earlier post about those 9 apps is what got me following you on Twitter haha. Nice to see at least two of them did something! I'm also about two months into my swiftUI journey, currently hoping to build as many apps as I can!
I put so much effort into that tweet 😅 so glad it connected us
@@adamlyttleapps Yeahh, you totally changed my perspectives on a couple of things! So I'm glad for that.
love all the content! great stuff..definately helped me come up with some new stuff for my apps
Great to hear!
Keep going Adam, thanks a lot😄
Your encouragement keeps me going! 💪
Great insights
Maybe you could share your development process utilizing ai
This is a good idea - I thought it may be common knowledge but I should never just assume
Real estate niche is a lot more valuable vs photo locker. You can check top niches & check RPM (revenue per mille) in RUclips.
Advertisers pay more in diff niches
This is RUclips specific right?
Love your videos! ❤
Could you please create a helpful guide how beginner can get started after learning basics of app development?
How can we improve our logic building?
Interesting question - there’s lots of videos online about learning programming, what insights could I offer that’s different?
How do you create the animation for onboarding?
Do you use any external frameworks or libraries to create the video/animation?
Codes this in SwiftUI. Will share details in a future video
Was wondering how you were getting any coding done with all these videos!
The grind is real 😬
How apple gives money, is it like youtube view like no of downloads equals to certain money or just only ads and in app purchases?
Love this series a lot ❤
Thank you for your nice words of encouragement
Great video as always . The ai integration into a video editor is a nice idea. But how can that be achieved. Do we need to train a model for that. Also the video editor project from scratch is tiresome . Will be happy to know that.
I think it can, I’ve been running some tests and it seems to work. But still need to put all the pieces together
Im learning flutter. Does it worth learning to develop IOS apps?
It comes down to personal choice. I chose SwiftUI because I saw a trend of my consumer apps generating more revenue on iOS
Based
5 kids damn lol
Let's be real here, you do not have a passion for coding. You have a passion for making money. That's fine by me of course, the first line in your bio just seems weird considering the videos you make.
False dichotomy. You can be passionate about coding and passionate about the business side. They are not mutually exclusive.
@@adamlyttleapps It's just that the kind of software you make is the exact thing my passion pushes me to avoid at all costs, cause it would feel like literal torture to me to write an incrementally better version of popular existing software, and repeat that same formula 9 times. Idk, maybe I'm just weird.
@@RoyaltyInTraining.fair point mate. I can see where you’re coming from. A good perspective I haven’t considered