<p><b>Startup description</b></p><p><b>My product</b>&nbsp;is a hands-free burst self-timer: set the phone down, walk into frame, and it fires full-quality photos at the shortest interval the device allows, saved natively to Photos as a real burst. Free with a one-time $9.99 unlock after 10 bursts. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, fully offline.</p><p>Launched May 2026, three versions shipped, 5.0 rating, localized into 10 languages. Built solo as a side project. It works, it's live — I've moved on to other things.</p><p><b>Key Highlights:</b> </p><ul> <li>$150/yr gross run rate&nbsp;</li> <li>$0 CAC, 100% organic&nbsp;</li> <li>47.7% product page → download conversion&nbsp;</li> <li>3.2% download → purchase&nbsp;</li> <li>One-time purchase, so no churn&nbsp;</li> <li>No backend, no data collected, no running costs.</li> </ul> <p><b>Team</b></p><p>Solo founder, sole developer, no contractors, no one else with account access. Clean single-counterparty handover. Available for one month after the sale for questions and the App Store Connect transfer.</p><p><b>Tech stack</b></p><p>Swift + SwiftUI, StoreKit for the non-consumable unlock, iOS 26.0+, 2.8 MB binary. No backend, no third-party SDKs, no analytics beyond App Store Connect. Private GitHub repo with full history.</p><p><b>Marketing and growth</b></p><p>None. No ads, no launch post, no ASO work beyond the initial listing. Everything below is pure organic App Store traffic.</p><ul> <li>Impressions: 5,500</li> <li>Product page views: 327 (5.9%)</li> <li>Downloads: 156 (47.7% of page views)</li> <li>Purchases: 5 (3.2% of downloads)</li> </ul> <p>A note on how these are measured: 47.7% is product page views → downloads. Apple's own "Conversion Rate" metric divides downloads by unique impressions, so the App Store Connect export shows ~2.8% for the same period. Both numbers are in the list above; nothing is being smoothed over.</p><p>Two takeaways. <b>The page converts.</b> Nearly half of everyone who opens the product page installs — above every commonly cited App Store benchmark (sources put the average anywhere from ~9% to ~34%). <b>The top of the funnel is empty.</b> 5,500 impressions in 4 months means the app is effectively invisible in search. That's the whole constraint, and nobody has ever tried to fix it.</p><p><b>Revenue and profit</b></p><ul> <li>Since launch (4 months): $50 gross, 5 × $9.99 unlocks. Net of Apple's 30% commission: ~$35. Annualized: ~$150 gross, ~$105 net.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Costs: $99/yr Apple Developer Program, nothing else. The app therefore covers its own costs today, with roughly $6/yr to spare. For a buyer who already holds a developer account, the incremental profit is the full ~$105/yr.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Worth noting: the app pays Apple's standard 30% because I never enrolled in the Small Business Program. Any buyer under the $1M annual threshold can enrol and drop that to 15% immediately, taking net revenue to ~$128/yr on the same sales. Free upside on day one.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>ARPPU $9.99 · ARPU per download $0.32 · CAC $0 · no churn (one-time purchase).</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Five purchases is still not a statistically meaningful sample. Treat the 3.2% conversion as directional, not as a model input.</li> </ul> <p><b>Return on investment</b></p><p>At ~$105/yr against $500, straight cash payback is roughly five years — about four if you enrol in the Small Business Program. I'm not going to dress that up: nobody should buy this for yield alone.</p><p>The case is that you're buying a starting position: a live listing, a converting page, and a clean codebase for less than a few days of your own development time. The levers nobody has pulled:</p><ul> <li>ASO. Impressions, not conversion, are the bottleneck. At 47.7% page conversion, 10× impressions is roughly 10× downloads.</li> <li>Minimum iOS version. The app requires iOS 26.0+, which excludes a large share of active iPhones. Lowering the deployment target may be the cheapest way to expand the addressable market — worth checking which APIs actually force it.</li> <li>Reviews. One rating. A review prompt is an afternoon of work and it moves conversion.</li> <li>Cross-promotion, if you already run a portfolio of camera or photo apps.</li> </ul> <p>At 50,000 impressions/yr and current rates that's ~1,400 downloads and ~45 unlocks — roughly $315/yr net, or ~$380 at 15% commission. Still small, but it turns a five-year payback into under two, on a weekend of work.</p><p><b>Assets</b></p><ul> <li>The App Store listing with its published history, original Bundle ID and URL (all preserved through transfer) ·&nbsp;</li> <li>Full source code, private GitHub repo&nbsp;</li> <li>Figma file containing the app icon and the App Store screenshot designs (the in-app UI is SwiftUI, built without a design file)&nbsp;</li> <li>Complete App Store Connect analytics export so you can verify every number here&nbsp;</li> <li>Metadata and screenshots for all 10 localizations</li> <li>The domain, where the privacy policy is hosted .</li> </ul> <p>No user database (the app collects no data), no email list, no social accounts.</p><p><b>Risks</b></p><p>Revenue is low, and the sample is thin. Five purchases in four months. The app covers its Apple fee and not much else.</p><p>No proven acquisition channel. Organic impressions are low, and the self-timer/burst category has a few competitors. Do your own keyword research before committing.</p><p><b>Summary</b></p><p>A working, converting product page. One hard thing to know in advance — whether people who see the app install it — is already answered: 47.7% do, with zero optimization effort, which suggests there's more left in it.</p><p>A live listing already through review and indexed, in an evergreen category, that pays for its own developer account. A clean deal: solo developer, no investors, no user data liability, no server bills. And one obvious untouched lever — visibility.</p><p>Wrong for anyone wanting real revenue on day one. This makes ~$105/yr today. Buy it as a cheap option on a growth lever, or don't.</p><p>✅ $50 TTM revenue</p><p>✅ 5 customers</p><p>✅ Business model: LTD</p><p>✅ Built with Swift, SwiftUI</p>