55 Apple Watch App Business Ideas You Can Start Today [2024]

Case study of how an aspiring founder learned to code in 2 months, shipped 17 apps in a year, sold one for $65,000, and built Talknotes generating ~$5,000 per month with 5,000 users, focusing on turning voice notes into structured content for content creators and entrepreneurs.

Designer-turned-developer creates Online Solitaire, an online gaming website that features popular solitaire games such as Klondike, Spider, and Freecell, earning about $1,500 each month from SEO and optimization tools like Moz and Firebase.

VizyPay is a bootstrapped fintech that provides transparent and cost-saving payment processing solutions to small business merchants across rural America, with over $27 million saved for merchants through their Cash Discount Program, experiencing a revenue growth of 28% year-over-year in Q1.

How Whitney Wolfe, co-founder of Tinder, built dating app Bumble - where women make the first move - with close to 30 million downloads, after leaving Tinder alleging sexual harassment.

Noom's mobile health app has a personalized subscription plan that uses psychological principles to encourage people to live healthier lives; with $400 million annual revenue in 2020 and a rumored IPO in the coming year at a $10 billion valuation, the company supports leading healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to improve patient treatment outcomes.

Noom's mobile health app has a personalized subscription plan that uses psychological principles to encourage people to live healthier lives; with $400 million annual revenue in 2020 and a rumored IPO in the coming year at a $10 billion valuation, the company supports leading healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to improve patient treatment outcomes.

How Whitney Wolfe, co-founder of Tinder, built dating app Bumble - where women make the first move - with close to 30 million downloads, after leaving Tinder alleging sexual harassment.

ConvertCalculator founder Joris de Ruiter went from building websites at an agency to running his own successful SaaS business that's now signing up new customers every day and taking $5,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

Porterhouse, a mass-texting service, brings in $2,400 in monthly revenue after just 1.5 years in business, targeting professional sports teams, personal trainers, and real estate agents with the ability to send authentic blue iMessages to iOS recipients from a user's own cell phone number.

On Brand founder Brian McEuen curates personalized selections of clothing for men online, sending emails to individual users without duplicate products, with 75 current users and an annualized revenue run rate of $1800.

SyncThemCalendars is a niche tool, born out of necessity to ensure calendars are synced and up-to-date, with over $500 MRR and growing slowly, and founder Elad Shaham credits his speedy and iterative approach to launching for its success.

Reflect is a note-taking app that offers a range of features designed to improve users' thinking and quality of life, and it currently generates over $30k MRR, has raised over a million dollars in crowdfunding, and employs four full-time staff members.

FitSW founder Jacob Montoya bootstrapped his company to $25K monthly revenue, helping over 20,000 personal trainers manage their businesses through software that enables them to create workouts, track progress, plan meals, accept payments, and manage schedules, and has now expanded to include FindTrainGain, enabling people to join live online fitness classes from the comfort of their homes.

MightyCall's Product Manager, Anna Miranchuk, explains how they launched and grew a B2B VoIP business phone service that brings in just over $200,000 per month as of January 2021, with a user base exceeding 6,000 small business owners and 25,000 active users, and shares lessons for aspiring founders who want to build or grow their own business.

MightyCall's Product Manager, Anna Miranchuk, explains how they launched and grew a B2B VoIP business phone service that brings in just over $200,000 per month as of January 2021, with a user base exceeding 6,000 small business owners and 25,000 active users, and shares lessons for aspiring founders who want to build or grow their own business.

GreenRope, a self-funded CRM and marketing automation platform with over 1,000 customers in 20 countries, was built organically and focused on creating a positive, customer-centric culture without outside investment, with an all-in-one interface solving challenges in managing sales, marketing, customer service, and operations.

Hubstaff grew its time tracking app to 10,000 paying customers and $6 million in annual recurring revenue by solving a real problem in the market without any big incumbents, using SEO tactics and a differentiated product with proof of work features that answered the need for owners and managers to know how long development tasks should take, manage back-office tasks, and track remote team or freelancers' work.

Hubstaff grew its time tracking app to 10,000 paying customers and $6 million in annual recurring revenue by solving a real problem in the market without any big incumbents, using SEO tactics and a differentiated product with proof of work features that answered the need for owners and managers to know how long development tasks should take, manage back-office tasks, and track remote team or freelancers' work.

WeWorked, a bootstrapped time-tracking software company designed specifically for small businesses, hosts timesheets for over 20k subscribers and has an average monthly revenue of $100k.

Nextiva, an Arizona-based business communications company, has developed an all-in-one platform called NextOS, which offers CRM tools, team collaboration tools, and business communication tools, resulting in a significant shift in its business model, and has grown from just a few employees to over 1,000 spread around the world, entirely self-funded, and focused on providing amazing service to its customers.

Site Alert, a small business-focused monitoring tool for websites, saw revenue grow by 51% under new ownership by Southport Ventures, thanks to focused growth initiatives and organic growth through the WordPress plugin marketplace.