Hello everyone!
This is my first journey. Here's a little background.
About two years, i tried making white hat android apps but they got installs slowly and earning was shit. And then i stumbled upon a lucky blackhat niche, it earned about 100/day on average and hit more than 1k/day on few seasons.
That niches keyword died after a year and i had to move to find a new niche. There's lots of niches in play store if you have time and know how to look for them. So starting from 8 months ago, i tried many different niches with some success. But developer account problems continued to haunt me repeatedly. I had thought the problem was from my provider's side, and i constantly tried to switch providers and vccs after each association. My apps were getting terminated by association after a month or so, even though other developers apps in same niches survived to millions installs. The best installs i did in the last 8 months was 90k installs. My max made in these months was 2.5k/mo with the help of a trick. Mostly about 1k. 90% of my apps were terminated for association.
And then recently i discovered the reason was my faulty ip setting.
I lost a lot of time and i feel very demotivated and stressed out now. These kinds of experiences can be a life lesson on humility if one knows how to take it. And there's worse stuff. But anyway i dont really have options but to look up and continue marching forward, my chest out.
So now i am using paid rdps to release apps and i am sure if there's no association i will grow steadily. Even though my budget is limited now, i think i can fund it on side hussles by selling services and source codes etc..
I know what i have to do, i know great niches, i have load of experience, all that is left for me to do is concentrate and grind. Release with right aso and maybe market initially and wait...
My general plan now is to release apps in different niches. And spam the powerful and safer ones moderately. Yes, white hat is really good in the long term so i am also gonna give that some time. I am focusing on fast bh returns because i need to give money for a some members of my family that need it. But i have this gut feeling calm and steady is way better.
I will do some initial marketing some of the apps with some social media and th accs.
Apps stats now:-
Bh Apps:
1 - 5+ installs
2 - 10+ installs
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Wh apps:
3 - 500+ installs
4 - 1K+ installs
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5 pending publication apps(3 bh, two wh)
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Planning to release 1 bh & 1 wh app today.
More to go!
You can ask me questions.
I am also planning to release games asap and partner up with a couple of good people. Might also try iOS once i have some time.
In this journey, i will try to be as helpful as possible for those interested. Hopefully, it will also help me gather and organize my thoughts and work.
Hop in!