I’ve been building my first app alone for about a year now and I’m finally getting close to launching. No team, no funding, just me figuring it out as I go.
Honestly it’s been humbling. I thought the hard part was building the thing. Turns out that’s maybe half of it. The other half is everything nobody talks about such as LLC paperwork, D-U-N-S numbers, App Store rejections, trying to figure out marketing when you have zero followers and zero budget.
I’ve made plenty of mistakes and learned from them. But I know there’s stuff I still don’t know that’s going to hit me after launch.
So I wanted to ask…for those of you who’ve been through it, what’s the thing you wish someone had told you before you launched your first app? What actually surprised you?
Not looking for the ‘believe in yourself’ stuff. I mean the real practical things that caught you off guard.
