Brandon built a simple Instagram utility app as a side project and earns $2,700 per month in passive income.
Note: This business is no longer running. It was started in 2014 and ended in 2023. Reason for closure: Shut down.
Hi! Tell me about you and your business.
I'm Brandon Bayer, a 27-year-old developer, designer, and pilot.
Martin Holsinger (my co-founder) and I built Storeo, an iOS app for making Instagram Stories longer than 15 seconds. It's the first side project I've launched to the world.
The core function is very simple. It takes a video, splits it into 15-second segments, and finally saves it to your camera roll. After uploading each slice to Instagram, people who watch your Story will see it seamlessly transition from one to the next without any jarring transitions or cut off words.

What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?
While stuck in a cubicle doing work I didn't like, I spent my free time learning all the skills I needed to build my own apps. Eventually, I wanted all my income to be from my own products, but I wanted to...
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