Comment by Aulig
2 years ago
I've been working on https://webtoapp.design since December 2019. I cracked $2k/month after around 2 years.
Could've probably done it quicker if I did more things that don't scale (as people often say). Should've focused less on SEO and more on outreach or other growth channels.
I've since got my CS degree and I'm working on it full time now :)
How does it work? Do you upload an SPA and then you download something that can be uploaded to the appstore?
How can your customers be sure you do not inject any faulty or malicious stuff into their apps?
The apps work similar to a browser, so we don't need access to the website's source code. And yes, for Android you get the aab file you can upload to Google Play. For iOS, we upload the app to your developer account for you, since that's the easiest way there.
We obviously don't inject malicious stuff since that'd ruin our reputation immediately (& open us up to lawsuits). I could see that happening with free app builders, but we make our money from subscription fees, so we have no need to turn to such illegal stuff to monetize the apps.
Even going open source wouldn't solve the issue, since most customers wouldn't be able (due to lack of technical knowledge) to compile the app themselves.