[Revenue Update] August 2021 - 0.55% of $1,000,000 Goal
August 2021: $458.51
This is $3 less than July. Bento sales aren’t as good as I was hoping. This is most likely because it’s very niche (people who take notes while reading on their phone). Given the great reviews and the ~5 users I’ve talked to, people who experience this definitely have an “aha” moment.
Here’s one Bento user on Reddit raving about the app: https://bit.ly/3ziyT90
I want to make money on this app, but even if I never make more than a few hundred bucks, it makes me happy that I was able to identify a product and build it. My suspicion though is that there are many people (most likely people in higher education) that will love this app if I can share a compelling vision of why this kind of note-taking is helpful.
$1M/year goal progress: 0.46%
What’s Next
I’m building a todo app. I’m not yet convinced I have something new to add to this field, but I’m currently in need of a todo app. I wanted to start building this for myself so that I can identify some creative innovations in the most boring app genre.
This is also slowly building to the possibility that I may want to dedicate my life to creating the best personal productivity products. I’ve been considering learning Flutter so that I can build for both Android and iOS. But I think that’s still too premature - I want to perfect these productivity products on Android before learning Flutter and expanding to iOS.