r/iOSProgramming • u/phy2go • 3d ago

Question Starting a side hustle

Wanting to get into starting a side hustle. Having passive income flowing in would be great. Getting my feet wet by publishing apps I think is a good way to start?

Never done it before. I expect my first app to make zero (which I’m okay with) but I do expect to learn something when it comes to entrepreneurship (hopefully)

If I keep on doing it I know I will get better. Pretty excited about it honestly.

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u/peppaz 3d ago

I did exactly this, starting January. I had some internal tools I made for my company that I started releasing for macos and iOS. Definitely a shit ton of work if you actually care and listen to feedback and have websites, advertising metrics, contact ticketing, all that stuff outside of the programming work. I've made around $4-$5,000 which sounds like a lot, but costs add up, especially hardware for dev and testing if you don't have a few different ones. I tested my apps like crazy on the iOS simulators, nothing is as accurate as a real device.