<![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 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:59:20 GMT <![CDATA[A Web Developer’s First App Hit $52K a Month in Four Months. Its Biggest Market Isn’t the US.]]>

TrustMRR, the site where founders publish revenue verified straight from their payment providers, lets you browse startups by country…

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Picture a mom in the middle of making dinner, phone propped against the backsplash, chatting with a small, colorful alien she named…

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On July 22, 2026, a 19-year-old named Jared Huseby posted a 14-second video to TikTok. In it, he says:

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The most effective growth feature I’ve come across in consumer apps this year isn’t an AI model or a clever referral loop. It’s push-ups.

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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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