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Congratulations on getting your first 100 paying users. Most startups never make a single dollar.

How long did it take you to hit that number? Many of us devs want to do SAAS but don't understand what's a reasonable amount of time to expect until we can get "ramen profitable".

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It took me around 1.5 years (at first part-time and then full-time) to get to 1.5k-2k€/month with https://webtoapp.design

Probably quite long but I had a lot of stuff to set up to get the product automated (and I did barely any marketing, basically just wrote a couple random blog posts for SEO).

Why does your site say:

> It's not allowed for us to publish your app in our own developer accounts

I've published apps for others in my developer account

I can't find it in the guidelines right now, but it's disallowed by both Apple and Google. I've personally seen Apple reject apps because of that before (not an app that I created though, since I follow the guidelines)

I found it, it's a restriction on "app builders" or "app generators". If I manually build an app for a client, it's fine for me to publish it in my account. Glad I didn't do anything wrong.

Ah you're right it's section 4.2.6.

Interesting point that it's not a restriction for all app creators but just more commercialized services.

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