Went viral sharing from Android to Mac, making Android development a breeze & moving to Asia

What happened on September 2022

On the last Friday of each month, I am sharing with you what happened this month while growing my Internet business and building internet products.

TL;DR – What happened on September 2022

• Went viral on Twitter with my new Android to Mac sharing app

• Talked about my Indie Journey on the Coffee And Coding podcast

• Teaching developers how to build Android apps

• Flew to Asia to surround myself with other makers

Here is what happened (in detail)

🔥 Went viral on Twitter with my Android to Mac sharing app

Being a long time Android user, sharing files to/from my laptop has always been a pain. Because of that, I decided to make a little app to make sharing across Android and Mac as simple as possible.

So, I built the MVP of the app and shared it around. Seems like others liked the idea too:

Alex Styl @alexstyl

I made a little app to share files from Android to Mac. Leave a "👋" below if you want to try it out.

The app is currently free while it is in development. Join 229 others and share from your Android phone to your Mac seamlessly:

🎤 Talked about my Indie Journey on the Coffee And Coding podcast

I have been receiving many questions about how and why I decided to switch from working as an engineer to building my own products.

The tl;dr is I am not happy when I am only doing engineering work. I love talking to people and figuring out solutions to their problems. Doing engineering for the majority of my days just didn’t seem enough for me.

You can listen to the full episode over at coffeeandcodingpod.com

🎓 Teaching developers how to build Android apps using Jetpack Compose

This month I introduced paid memberships on composables.co. Composables.co is a place where people can learn Android development using Jetpack Compose.

Other that various paid and free courses introduced this month, there is now a private Discord server, where people can learn Android development together or ask me any Android specific question they might have.

Alex Styl @alexstyl

I am running a special Early Bird 💖 offer on composables.co The site contains both courses and lessons on Android Development. 🦾 Each lesson is usually 2 min long and it can be part of a course. Currently 46 more spots left. Location specific discounts available.

🛩 Flew to Asia to surround myself with other makers

Last but not least, I wanted to surround myself with other people building their online businesses so I flew to Bali, Asia 🌴 for a few months.

I have been interacting with other makers online for the past year, but technology have yet to come close to face-to-face.

This is also one of the reasons why I wanted to work for myself building an Internet business, as I would be able to work from any place at any point.

Minh-Phuc Tran @phuctm97

What more can you ask in an indie hacker group? @yongfook @acnebs @sobedominik @alexstyl @jamespotterdev @chrisdengso and many more in a hacker accountability meetup 🤩

Revenue & stats

How much money I made from my projects this month

• Composables.co: $ 819.5 from annual sales (or $ 68.29 MRR)

• View to Composable: $ 100

• Ubidrop: $ 53

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That’s all for this month. This was the first issue of my newsletter. How was it? What would you like to see more next time? Let me know!

Until next time,
– Alex