Today I switched things up, woke up early, and took my laptop to a coffee shop to work on my new app, Swipe Soup — a simple photo cleaner where you swipe through your camera roll, delete what you don’t want, and keep what you do. It’s not some super original idea, but I’m honestly fine with that. I checked Sensor Tower and saw an app in this niche (Swipe Wipe) doing around $1M in the last 30 days, which is wild considering how straightforward the concept is. The main milestone in this vlog is that my indie apps just crossed $1,000 in all-time revenue. I started building apps in April and I remember being genuinely scared to buy the Apple Developer account because I thought I’d never even make the money back — and now I’m at 10x that. It’s not life-changing, but it’s proof that shipping small apps can work. I also break down what I’m focusing on next: not just ASO, but actual marketing. My plan is to launch Swipe Soup and post one TikTok/Instagram video per day for 30 days to see what happens. I talk about how I use Astro for keyword research (popularity > 30, difficulty < 60), why early reviews matter a lot, and why I keep testing pricing (weekly vs lifetime). The goal is simple: ship fast, make the app discoverable, learn from the results, and iterate.