How I built my first IOS app in 4 days?

3 weeks ago, I promised myself not to build any other idea than my main business (PostPlanify - a social media scheduler I launched 6 months ago).

But obviously I couldn’t resist the temptation of building a B2C mobile app :)

This might be a wrong decision (probably) - but I didn’t want to regret in the future because of not trying my chances.

First of all, I needed to pick a niche.

This tweet from Ernesto helped me a lot (you can find all the trending app ideas here).

And I decided to go with the 1st one - helping people to quit gooning addiction.

The good news is there are many apps making $100k+/mo in this category.

And there’s millions of people struggling with this problem.

This definitely proves the idea is already validated.

But it also means there’s too much competition - which I don’t think this is much of a problem for B2C apps.

Becase if you do the marketing right, there’ll be always people seeing your product online + want to give it a try.

One thing I learned for certain so far is that you should:

I used Claude Code to build the entire app.

Here’s my tech stack:

I didn’t write even a single line of code.

I took inspiration from all the existing apps out there + told Claude to build this for me by making small changes.

It took me 4 days to finish the app + send it for a review on App Store.

I got rejected for 4 times though 😅 it finally got approved in 5th try.

I already started warming up my TikTok + Instagram accounts in the meantime.

I launched my app on X first.

Even though I got lots of engagement from this and many other follow up tweets, there wasn’t much conversion coming from here (virality doesn’t necessarily mean more revenue 💰).

I’m still trying to find winner short-form content formats. Here’s my marketing strategy:

From all the successful app builders out there, I learned this is the best way to grow for B2C apps:

So that’s what I’m going to do.

I already have a working product + strong onboarding.

So all I have to do is to create more organic posts.

I think I’ll have much stronger growth after I finally go viral (hopefully soon!!)

This will be an exciting journey for sure.

One thing I’m very happy about is that I’m learning a lot along the way.

I can use this as a leverage to grow my next apps much faster in the future.

And most importantly, I’m enjoying the process.

I don’t think it will take too long to reach $10k MRR with this app if I just keep focusing on distribution.

At the end, it’s always all about marketing 🙂

I’m sure many people will read this, but never take action (or stop after a few days).

Hopefully you won’t be one of them :)

— Hasan