Always seen most sloppy IOS mobile apps developed by 12-14 year olds, do marketing and make one million within a month or two. It's doable there's no doubt.
Are there any macOS apps that are developed by such ordinary people (not giant orgs like adobe), made to at least one million revenue per year.
What's your idea on making macOS apps.
I got tired of the same release ritual every time I shipped an update: notarize, staple, package a DMG, update the appcast, sign the EdDSA key, push to S3, hope nothing broke. Half a day, every time.
So I built Amore. It's a Mac app + CLI that does the whole flow:
amore release) for CI/CD or vibe-coding with an agent.No vendor lock-in. Custom domain on your appcast means you can walk away whenever. Your private signing keys never leave your machine.
Here is the full Pomodoro project showing the SwiftUI + licensing integration end-to-end.
This guide should get you started in under 10 minutes. If you prefer to work with coding agents check out Amore's agent skill.
Happy to answer questions. Especially curious what other indie Mac devs are using for this today.
Hello, I'm building my first macOS app, it's a layer based image editor. Sort of like Acorn, but aiming for a higher level of Photoshop UI compatibility. I won't mention the name since I'm not approved for self-promotion.
I'm currently Apple Silicon only, and macOS 15 or greater. That allows Macs going back to M1, circa 2020 or so. I'm debating whether to loosen this up to allow Intel Macs and possibly also back up to macOS 14 Sonoma. My thinking is, this really only gets me a couple more years, maybe 2018-2020 Macs, and probably isn't worth the trouble. I'd have to buy an Intel Mac for testing.
How do you decide which macOS versions and chip architectures to target?