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title: "60 days, 6 iOS apps, 80+ dev.to articles, $0 marketing budget: what actually worked"

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created: 2026-05-07

60 days, 6 iOS apps, 80+ dev.to articles, $0 marketing budget: what actually worked

Day 60 of a 100-day indie iOS experiment. Revenue: $0 so far. Here is the honest retrospective on what generated traction and what died quietly.

The TL;DR

I spent $0 on marketing.…