<![CDATA[Stories by Yuma Ueno on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@yumaueno?source=rss-7318b164240a------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*_sbkh68ZsLBThnbboFyckQ.jpeg Stories by Yuma Ueno on Medium https://medium.com/@yumaueno?source=rss-7318b164240a------2 Medium Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:15:58 GMT <![CDATA[The Habit Tracker That Barely Markets Itself and Still Made $602K Last Year and 100k in Month in…]]>

Most of the app success stories I study follow the same script. Someone finds a short-form video format that works, posts hundreds or…

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Workout trackers might be the most crowded corner of the App Store. There are thousands of them, and nearly all of them do the same thing…

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Connor Burd is 24 years old, and his apps bring in roughly $4 million a year.

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A drive-tracking app that turns commuting into a competition just crossed $100,000 a month — three months after it launched. An alarm app…

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Two childhood friends from Los Angeles built an AI tool that graded and generated student essays.

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A 23-year-old software engineer in Germany just posted his entire monthly P&L on X — revenue, ad spend, margin, all of it, in public.

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It’s called outbid.lol. The entire product is a leaderboard where products are ranked by how much money people bid for a spot. That’s the…

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Caleb Dean is 23.

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Michael Que is 21. In January, the app he built brought in $147,787 in a single month.

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Sarah Perl is 25 and has never written a line of code in her life. Not a hobby project, not a bootcamp, nothing.

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