IPhone App

15 Tips For Starting A Successful IPhone App (2024)

Pat Walls

•

Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own iPhone app? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting an iPhone app:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start an iPhone app?
-> Pros and cons of an iPhone app

Need inspiration?

-> Other iPhone app success stories
-> Marketing ideas for an iPhone app
-> Iphone app names

Other resources

-> Profitability of an iPhone app

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for building an iPhone app:

#1: Chelsea Rhoads, founder of Ivee:

We chatted with with Chelsea, founder of Ivee ($10K/month). In our interview, Chelsea says:

Minimum viable product means MINIMAL! If you aren’t embarrassed by it, you have waited too long. Keep your day job as long as you can, then keep it longer.

Additionally:

I never thought I would feel so fulfilled on this adventure. I’ve learned so much about myself, my strength, what I truly care about and how to continue growing and improving as a person, within the business and outside of it.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Brandon Bayer, founder of Storeo:

We chatted with with Brandon, founder of Storeo ($2.7K/month). In our interview, Brandon says:

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.

Additionally:

Don't be afraid of trying what others think is crazy (like charging $9.99 for a stupid simple app).

Read the full interview ➜

#3: Jason Fox, founder of EarBuds:

We chatted with with Jason, founder of EarBuds ($2M/month). In our interview, Jason says:

Don’t be afraid to try new, bold ideas. You won’t know until you try. Your final product will not look like your initial product. Iteration is key.

Additionally:

Never lose focus on the users. This has always been our core. If you make product decisions based off what you want...it will never be what “they” want, and what they want is far more important.

Read the full interview ➜

#4: Dominic Morris, founder of Curated Runs:

We chatted with with Dominic, founder of Curated Runs ($3K/month). In our interview, Dominic says:

I thought to myself... there must be a better solution than driving around town hoping to get lucky and find a pickup basketball game.

Additionally:

So Donte decided to take some courses on coding and learned objective C and he gained enough knowledge to build out a condensed version of our HoopMaps aka our MVP.

Read the full interview ➜

#5: Roy Stein, founder of BabelBark:

We chatted with with Roy, founder of BabelBark ($0/month). In our interview, Roy says:

Don’t raise money too fast. If you really believe in your product and you really think its a winner, raise only enough to take you to the next step / round.

Additionally:

One of the most common mistakes startup founders do, is that they are so in love with their idea and product that they lose sight of reality and fail to change & adapt the idea, product, concept to meet the market need and pull.

Read the full interview ➜

#6: Chelsea Rhoads, founder of Ivee:

We chatted with with Chelsea, founder of Ivee ($10K/month). In our interview, Chelsea says:

Don’t beat yourself up, we’ll get it all figured it out.

Read the full interview ➜

#7: Dominic Morris, founder of Curated Runs:

We chatted with with Dominic, founder of Curated Runs ($3K/month). In our interview, Dominic says:

You want to always show growth so try to focus your energy on an area of your business that is working and streamline everything else to keep your business focused on that.

Read the full interview ➜

#8: Trevor McKendrick, founder of Salem Software:

We chatted with with Trevor, founder of Salem Software ($10K/month). In our interview, Trevor says:

Just do it. Most people don’t know what they’re talking about, or they assume the reasons they were successful apply to everyone. Everything is so situation dependent.

Additionally:

A friend and I often lament how we wish we could go back to when we were “stupid” and just do things that to us today would seem crazy. He started a hardware business and I did a Spanish Bible app, which today we’d both think are absurd. Yet they were both the things that first made us successful.

Read the full interview ➜

#9: Joel Runyon, founder of MoveWell:

We chatted with with Joel, founder of MoveWell ($1K/month). In our interview, Joel says:

I sat down and started realizing how well our content was doing. Instead of trying to be a genius - I just figured we could “do more of that” - so we did and the site began to grow 4x.