Last Shipaton, I Couldn’t Ship a Paywall. This Year, Six People Paid Me $13
The numbers first, as of September 22: six subscribers, about $13 in revenue. That is not a success. But last year the number was zero, because I never got in-app purchases working.
Last year
August 23, 2025: "In-app purchases are hard. Four hours in and I'm back where I started. If anyone is confident with RevenueCat purchases, I'd love some advice."
The app itself made it onto the App Store in the second half of Shipaton. The purchase didn't, and without it there was no Shipaton entry.
I hadn't written any StoreKit code. I went straight to RevenueCat and got stuck on the concepts. I couldn't tell a product from an offering from an entitlement, or which of them I was supposed to create in App Store Connect and which in the RevenueCat dashboard. Six days earlier, I had tweeted that the purchase part of this hackathon was too hard...
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