Anh Nguyen

Solo dev building iOS apps

Shipping since 2019 • 100k+ downloads
Growing to $5k/month

Tempus · Noota · Mona · Visty
↓ My apps
🧑🏻‍💻

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

@hieudinh_ SEO

[Paul Hudson @twostraws]

Apple's shiny new (and open source!) Foundation Models Utilities package is full of gems. This seems like a great way to prove API before baking it into the OS – I love the compacting code! https://t.co/XfxLXHeNFm

[Amos Gyamfi @amos_gyamfi]

I have been experimenting with SwiftUI realtime object classification, detection, and segmentation using Core AI models. Everything is running locally on iPhone.👇

- Classify: Live image classification with a user‑chosen vision model, PVT v2 (ImageNet‑1k) or CLIP (zero‑shot).

- Detect: Object detection + prediction with bounding boxes using RF‑DETR.

- Segment: Instance & semantic segmentation by text prompt with SAM 3 .

- Ask: Natural‑language Q&A about the scene (text or voice) with Foundation Models + SpeechAnalyzer.

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

Every product starts with one customer.

$0 → 1 sale is the hardest milestone.

Risen reached it today. ❤️

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

I’m a heavy sleeper.

I’m also too lazy to work out.

So I built Risen — an alarm app that won’t stop ringing until I do push-ups.

Turns out the best way to wake up is to leave yourself no choice. 💪⏰

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #iosdev

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

This guy is paying weekly… but hasn’t opened the app in 4 months.

I’m genuinely wondering what’s going on here 😭

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

Honestly… I want to keep paying RevenueCat more every month 💸

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

The big day.

$461 sales in 24 hours.
Highest day ever for my indie apps.

Still tiny in the indie world.
But after years … this one hits different.

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

@Altawesomeee haha same here 😅

My first app: refreshing App Store Connect like a maniac for days
now: blink and it’s approved
Apple review really said: we got you today 😂

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

Apple review in 2 minutes 🤯

• In Review → Approved → Ready to Release
• Version 1.7.5 is live

Let’s go 🚀 #iosdev #indiehackers

[Thomas Ricouard @Dimillian]

Codex use cases are live, and there is a great page on how to use Codex to build iOS and macOS native apps!

https://t.co/ewKj4RahJ1

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

ASO and app marketing skills for AI agents

https://t.co/teIhR4t0Z1

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

I’ve been shipping iOS apps since 2019.

10+ apps shipped.
100k+ downloads.
$2k/month in revenue.

Some flopped.
Some are growing.

Now building:

→ Tempus — ADHD Planner with AI
→ Noota — AI Note Taker & Transcription
→ Mona — Budget & Expense Tracker
→ Visty — Business Card Scanner

Goal: $5k/month by the end of the year.

I share real numbers:
revenue, failures, experiments.

Follow along if you're building too.

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

@Arixold Hi

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

Light or Dark? 👀
Which one are you picking?

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

Nice, I did something similar in my app too.

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

@AliGrids Nice! Mine too.

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

@hieudinh_ Please share 👋

[Anh Nguyen @anhnc92]

Another year renewed!
Let’s ship. 🚀
#iOSDev #IndieDev