Rui Sousa

making apps that i like and trying to make money • dad • • •

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

i made $14.79 in May ‘26

👶 Buggy - $11.45
🪙 Coiny - $3.34

a very bad month revenue-wise

turning Buggy into a free app with subs instead of paid might have burned me

but what’s done is done
more motivation to do marketing!

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

i made $36.23 in April ‘26

👶 Buggy - $21.79
🐟 Fishy - $9.45
📝 Waddle - $4.99

launched Waddle on iOS but i’ve already pivoted to web app after seeing ads failing

thinking of revamping Buggy to a 2.0 with a lot more stuff

all the other apps (10) are dead just with ASO

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@picoito totally forgot about dark mode 😄

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

i made the monthly indie revenue posts searchable

171 posts from may
$1.9M mentioned revenue
filter by amount, product/service, month, or $0 experiments

useful for finding app ideas and seeing what builders are actually making money from

https://t.co/GJyJvVvApY

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

day 23🤘

would you rather ship a buggy app or a perfect app?

i’ve removed my own app from review
AGAIN!

i should have started small
but i wanted it to feel complete
and now i’m paying for that

maybe even for something that won’t have any users

what would you do?

👥919

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

day 22🤘

launched a new side project around posts about revenue here on x
have you checked it out? 😄

i need to do this more often
i was so worried in making perfect that i almost didn’t launch it!

you can, AND SHOULD,
ship stuff!

👥914

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@emeeliojohann sure soon that will change

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

i made $14.79 in May ‘26

👶 Buggy - $11.45
🪙 Coiny - $3.34

a very bad month revenue-wise

turning Buggy into a free app with subs instead of paid might have burned me

but what’s done is done
more motivation to do marketing!

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

i made $36.23 in April ‘26

👶 Buggy - $21.79
🐟 Fishy - $9.45
📝 Waddle - $4.99

launched Waddle on iOS but i’ve already pivoted to web app after seeing ads failing

thinking of revamping Buggy to a 2.0 with a lot more stuff

all the other apps (10) are dead just with ASO

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@emeeliojohann possibly true 😄 it is what it is

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

not gonna lie, was kinda expecting for this to have blown up when i woke up 😄

the original post had 2.2K views and i thought people would find this funny

i wonder what failed
- did it not reach anyone?
- was the post not clear?
- did people just not care?

anyway, it happens!

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

the replies to revenue posts from @marclou and @jackfriks are weirdly useful

people share:
- what they built
- what made money
- what made $0
- what they’re trying next

so i made a tiny archive of them

171 monthly posts
$1.9M mentioned
filterable by amount/month

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@dannytommyX thank you, danny! will give it a try

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@jackfriks @shipordie_

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@athcanft my "ai job helper" never left the ground

i have no idea how to do good content for it

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@sergeynazarovx never had this happen to me, and i haven't seen it before

feels weird that your post got flagged

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@tdinh_me apple reviewer says "nuh uh"

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@thekitze but also "do i have money for it?"

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@justalexoki all they need is one person chronically online to spot all these grifters 😄

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@hustle_fred if i had used supabird i would have known how to do good hooks 😄

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@tonnoz @MythThrazz i didn't have an algorithms professor but i repeated it myself so many times thinking it was extremely important that it's also my sleep paralysis demon

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@hustle_fred that's a good point

i might need to redo the post to see what works 😄
hooks are definitely not my strong point, i ramble too much

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@orcdev @robinebers i build a lot of stuff b it i don’t know if people think they’re cool 😄

the last thing i shipped was an archive of everybody’s revenue posts here on x

but i’m also proud of my free chrome extension to visualise growth on x - https://t.co/hgAc5Pq3Xr

https://t.co/OnH9nBplt2

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

the replies to revenue posts from @marclou and @jackfriks are weirdly useful

people share:
- what they built
- what made money
- what made $0
- what they’re trying next

so i made a tiny archive of them

171 monthly posts
$1.9M mentioned
filterable by amount/month

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@m_zokov i guess i suck at delivering a hook 😄

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@DanielSmidstrup

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

@_sgarbini i can't wait for people just putting their face on top of other people's videos and pointing at stuff

that's what's going to happen 90% of the time

[Rui Sousa @heyitzami]

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