This ex-Google engineer built his first iOS app in 3 weeks. Now it makes $2,000+ per…
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This ex-Google engineer built his first iOS app in 3 weeks. Now it makes $2,000+ per day, with zero ads and zero TikToks. I sat down with Rasty Turek, the founder behind Vaultaire. It’s an iPhone app that encrypts your photos and files right on your device. No servers, no shared keys. Not even Rasty can see what’s inside. He’d never built an iOS app before. Coding agents wrote it in about 3 weeks. > Month 1: $66 > 6 months later: $41,000/mo > Now: $2K–$3K per day > 60,000+ downloads He almost made it completely free. The day before launch he added a price, mostly so he wouldn’t get floode
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