Built an iPad notebook app as a non-developer, now what?
Hey guys. I'm an architect, not a developer, but I've always been into tech and I spent the last year+ building an iPad app basically because no note-taking app out there felt like a real notebook to me.
Every app is infinite scroll, infinite pages, infinite everything. I wanted something that felt like my Moleskine. You open it, you have your pages, you flip through them, that's it. So I built it. It's on the App Store, it works, and I'm proud of it. The problem is everything else.
I have no audience, no marketing budget, no team. It's just me doing this alongside my day job. I've been lurking on Reddit thinking about posting in handwriting/journaling/iPad communities, and I've thought about reaching out to smaller YouTubers who cover iPad stuff. But I honestly don't know if any of that actually works or if I'm wasting time.
For people who've launched niche apps, what actually got you your first real users? Not talking about going viral, just the thing that actually moved the needle from 0 to "ok some people are using this."
Thanks for any input.
This is the app: https://apps.apple.com/it/app/perenne-note/id6758993077