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17 web pages · 6 articles · 6 Indie Hackers posts · 6 YouTube videos · 4 podcasts
sebastianroehl.substack.com
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2024
2024 - My Indie App Business Year In Review
TL;DR: Indie dev goes from struggling bootstrapper to marketing on New York Times Square! Built my app HabitKit to $10k MRR, quit my job, got featured by MKBHD, and living the drea…
indiehackers.com
Indie Hackers
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2024
How building in public got my habit-tracking mobile app to $15k/mo - Indie Hackers
After a false start, <strong>Sebastian Röhl, 31, found success with a simple, visually appealing habit-tracking app</strong> called HabitKit. He credits building in public and App …
revenuecat.com
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9 months ago
How Sebastian Röhl built HabitKit by sticking with what worked (and starting over when it didn’t)
HabitKit came from a much simpler idea: <strong>Sebastian wanted a habit tracker that visualized consistency using a GitHub-style contribution grid</strong>. When he shared the fir…
sebastianroehl.substack.com
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11 months ago
From Flutter to SwiftUI - A Case Study - by Sebastian Röhl
The best part was that <strong>I was able to ship all my apps to iOS and Android at the same time</strong>. HabitKit made decent revenue on Android as well, despite the well-known …
startupseries.io
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12 months ago
How Sebastian Röhl Built HabitKit Into a $15k a Month App
Discover how Sebastian Röhl turned early failures into success with HabitKit, the minimalist habit tracker making <strong>over $15K a month</strong>.
happybootstrapping.com
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2025
$30,000 Per Month: Sebastian Rühl's Journey to Successful Indie Hacker with HabitKit
Interestingly, the higher iOS pricing works well, while a price test on Android failed. The app has now reached a monthly ARR that fluctuates <strong>between $15,000 in summer and …
youtube.com
YouTube
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2025
He Makes $15K/Month from a Simple App — No Ads, No Audience
This solo developer built a habit tracking app in his spare time — and it now makes over $15,000/month, without ads, without an audience, and with zero backend.
His secret? App St…
youtube.com
YouTube
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9 months ago
📈 The Business Model Behind HabitKit & LiftBear
In this Launched clip, Sebastian Röhl shares the evolution of his app business models—why he started with subscriptions for LiftBear and how HabitKit’s lifetime plan helped drive s…
episode.flightcast.com
Podcast
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2025
Starter Story — How I Built It: $15K/month Mobile App
This is how Sebastian Röhl built a mobile app to $15K MRR Complete your LLC filing today → https://go.starterstory.com/zenbusiness Learn how to build mobile apps → http://build.sta…
youtube.com
YouTube
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2025
How I Built It: $15K/month Mobile App
This is how Sebastian Röhl built a mobile app to $15K MRR
Complete your LLC filing today → https://go.starterstory.com/zenbusiness
Learn how to build mobile apps → http://build.s…
youtube.com
YouTube
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9 months ago
There Is No Easy Mode: Launching Apps After Your First Success — Sebastian Röhl, HabitKit
On the podcast, I talk with Sebastian about the power of building in public, how persistence pays off when growth is slow, and why focusing on user needs and iterative improvement …
sebastianroehl.substack.com
Article
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10 months ago
2025 - The Year That Changed Everything - by Sebastian Röhl
Early numbers look promising: 1,600 ... <strong>$52 MRR</strong>. But more importantly: I use it every single day. There’s something special about building an app that solves your …
indiehackers.com
Article
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2025
Building a mobile app portfolio to $15k+/mo
HabitKit making >$15K/mo; lessons on ASO, pricing, and subscriptions.
habitkit.app
Article
HabitKit website
Landing page for the HabitKit app referenced in the Indie Hackers article.
habitkit.app
Hacker News
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2024
Build habits by tracking progress in tile-based grid charts
launchedfm.com
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9 months ago
84: HabitKit – Sebastian Röhl - Launched
I started to make updates for the ... I got two users per day maybe, and ... The app is still live and right now it makes <strong>$150 MRR</strong>....
subclub.com
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2024
From Corporate Web Developer to Full-Time Indie Hacker — Sebastian Röhl, HabitKit | Sub Club Podcast
On the podcast <strong>we talk with Sebastian about quitting a job to build his own apps, going back to that job after failing to gain traction, and the inflection point that allow…
revenuecat.com
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2024
Sebastian Röhl, HabitKit, on the Sub Club podcast
This week on the Sub Club podcast, we chatted with Sebastian Röhl, the creator of HabitKit, about his journey from corporate programmer to full-time indie app developer.
roehl.hashnode.dev
Web page
Weekly Indie Log #43 - Building A Profitable App Business
Let's talk about the biggest achievement this week: My indie app business managed to reach $8,000 MRR (<strong>Monthly Recurring Revenue</strong>). This is mostly generated by…
youtube.com
YouTube
Interview With Sebastian, the Indie Hacker Behind HabitKit! - YouTube
On today's episode, we bring on Sebastian and talk about his indie journey from new grad to six figure ARR with HabitKit!Links:https://x.com/SebastianRoehlht...
indiehackers.com
Indie Hackers
Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses
After his first failure, Sebastian Röhl built his next app — <strong>HabitKit</strong>. Taking the learnings from his first app, he grew it to $15k+ MRR.
open.spotify.com
Web page
84: HabitKit – Sebastian Röhl - Launched by RevenueCat | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from <strong>Launched by RevenueCat</strong> on Spotify. On the podcast, I talk with Sebastian about the power of building in public, how persistence pays of…
podcasters.spotify.com
Podcast
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2024
Ship Fam - Indie Enterpeneurship, App Dev, Flutter and more! — Interview With Sebastian, the Indie Hacker Behind HabitKit!
On today's episode, we bring on Sebastian and talk about his indie journey from new grad to six figure ARR with HabitKit! Links: https://x.com/SebastianRoehl https://www.habitk…
Podcast
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9 months ago
Launched by RevenueCat — 84: HabitKit – Sebastian Röhl
On the podcast, I talk with Sebastian about the power of building in public, how persistence pays off when growth is slow, and why focusing on user needs and iterative improvement …
Podcast
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2024
Sub Club by RevenueCat — From Corporate Web Developer to Full-Time Indie Hacker — Sebastian Röhl, HabitKit
On the podcast: Quitting a job to build your own apps, returning to that job after failing to gain traction, and the inflection point that allowed our guest to finally quit for goo…
youtube.com
YouTube
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2024
From Corporate Web Developer to Full-Time Indie Hacker — Sebastian Röhl, HabitKit
On this episode of the Sub Club podcast, we discuss quitting a job to build your own apps, returning to that job after failing to gain traction, and the inflection point that allow…
getlatka.com
Web page
How Habit Kit hit $12K revenue with a 1 person team in 2023.
Habit Kit CEO Sebastian Röhl shares how Habit Kit grew to $12K over the past 2 years. <strong>Habit Kit has bootstrapped</strong>. See Habit Kit growth here.
newsletter.thestartupgenic.com
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10 months ago
This Simple Habit App Quietly Makes $30K+ a Month
How HabitKit, a minimalist habit app, grew into a <strong>$15K+ per month</strong> indie business by focusing on simplicity, retention, and organic app store growth.
indiehackers.com
Indie Hackers
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2024
Preparing to become a full-time indie hacker again - Indie Hackers
Check out Sebastian’s app <strong>HabitKit</strong>, his X profile, and his blog roehl.dev.
sebastianroehl.substack.com
Article
<![CDATA[Building A Profitable App Business]]>
Let me give you some actual numbers because I know you like those: HabitKit made a crazy jump in terms of MRR alone. We went from $28k to <strong>$31.5k</strong> in just 10 days. T…
startupmag.de
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9 months ago
5 Strategien aus dem Bootstrapping, die für Startups 2026 wichtig sind | startupmag.de
Mit HabitKit konnte Sebastian auf 30k MRR wachsen. <strong>Viele bootstrapped Unternehmen entstehen parallel zu einer bestehenden Anstellung und profitieren genau von dieser Ausgan…
happy-bootstrapping.de
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2024
Podcast für bootstrapped Gründer: Erfolgsgeschichten & Strategien für Startups
Sebastian Röhl hat innerhalb von ... HabitKit und WinDiary. Nach drei Jahren als Softwareentwickler kündigte er seinen Job, um sich ein Jahr lang voll auf die App-Entwicklung zu ko…
indiehackers.com
Indie Hackers
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2023
One Year Of Indie Hacking: How I quit my job and built my own app business - Indie Hackers
You mentioned that you start the second project <strong>HabitKit</strong> after you saw the slow growth of the first one. Why you choose to start a new project instead of improving…
boringstrategy.com
Web page
How HabitKit Grew to $15K MRR with a Habit Tracking App
JavaScript is not available · We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using x.com. You can…
indiehackers.com
Indie Hackers
HabitKit is live on the App Store and Google Play - Indie Hackers
Today is the release day of HabitKit, <strong>a minimalistic habit tracking app for iOS and Android</strong>. iOS: https://apple.co/3ilhVDm Android: http://play.google.c...
reddit.com
Reddit
r/SideProject on Reddit: Another Habit Tracker App? Why?
In general I think this is cool and you definitely learned a lot. But this looks very very similar to habitkit, app by a German developer, also heard it in a podcast a few years ag…
reddit.com
Reddit
r/budget on Reddit: Habit Money
Today I learned that HabitKit generates <strong>+10k/month</strong>.
highsignal.io
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2024
$15k a month from habit tracking app
Revenue: HabitKit is the primary revenue generator among my apps, with a monthly recurring revenue (MRR) of <strong>approximately $7,900.</strong>
x.com
Tweet
Sebastian Röhl on X: "Weekly Indie Log #35 Topics: June Revenue Recap, Pricing Experiments, HabitKit Month View Let's start this week by looking at the revenue recap of my app business in June. Here are the raw numbers in terms of revenue, MRR and subs...
Weekly Indie Log #35 Topics: June Revenue Recap, Pricing Experiments, HabitKit Month View · Let's start this week by looking at the revenue recap of my app business in June. H…
linkedin.com
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Sebastian Röhl - HabitKit | LinkedIn
✅ <strong>$10K ARR</strong> (Annual Recurring Revenue) I’ve reached a new milestone with my passion project Steps & Beasts. I originally built the app for myself about one and …
indiehackers.com
Indie Hackers
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2024
$50,000 revenue in one year - Indie Hackers
I recall being at a friend's wedding on a Saturday when my phone started buzzing with an unbelievable number of sales notifications. It was a big moment — this day my app bega…
productivity-apps.com
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8 months ago
HabitKit - Habit Tracker Review & Alternatives | ProdApps
Read our in-depth review of HabitKit - Habit Tracker. Discover its key features, benefits, and the best alternatives to HabitKit.
inspostories.com
Web page
Habits App - $13K MRR. Marketing hacks, Viral loop, detailed story of success
$13K+MRR · Mobile AppsCategory · SubscriptionsBusiness Model · FlutterTech · Habitkit.app · Datafounders · Habitkit.app · MRR$13K+ CategoryMobile Apps · Business ModelSubscriptions…
reddit.com
Reddit
r/productivity on Reddit: Today I learned that HabitKit generates +10k/month. Do people really pay for that?
Personal data is really not worth much, definitely less than 10 bucks a person, and even Meta and Google are only at around 100 bucks a person a year. Ads are much harder if you do…
