Lutz, multi-app iOS founder (Consumer Club member) who hires devs on Upwork
Split the app into 3-5 parts, price each one, and cap the build at ~$2,000
Never pays more than ~$2,000 per iOS app; host relays it, no revenue numbers
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What they did
Hires Upwork devs for every app. Breaks the app into 3-5 functional parts and sets a fixed price per part (e.g. $500 / $1,000 / $200) to stop cost bloat; uses ChatGPT to estimate each feature's complexity against cost benchmarks; negotiates on price; caps each iOS app at ~$2,000. Notes the core feature is usually the least labor-intensive part and onboarding the most. Apps are pain-point, hard-paywall utilities.
What happened
Keeps dev spend at or under ~$2,000 per app
- Stage
- Pre-launch (build)
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Dmitri Mirakyan - he had nothing.. until he built a stupid simple $30k/mo app with AI“you got to break down the functions of the app into at least three parts, like three to five parts, and then put a price on each of the parts, because one of the biggest problems is the costs bloat over time”
“I think his cap is like something around $2,000. So, he never pays more than like $2,000 per iOS app”
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