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One founder’s song-lyrics app hit $25K a month 🎵

And the Reddit reply playbook that still pays 20 months later

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Song-lyrics language app Canary at $25K a month, devs.dev daily issue #14

Issue #14 · Friday, November 6, 2026

☕ THE COLD OPEN

  • 🎵 A song-lyrics language app: $25K a month, solo
  • 📣 Reddit + X replies into $17K/mo (same playbook, 20 months)
  • 📚 One-exam study apps: $147.6K in a year
  • 📈 Raised prices 25%, sales up 52%
  • ⏱️ An AI agency plan that fits 15 hours a week

Content first, product second. 5 minutes. Money first. Let’s go.

👀 ALSO MAKING MONEY

  • 📒 QuickBooks Desktop API → ~$46K MRR. Danny Nemer built Conductor for one paying customer (no landing page), then grew on GitHub stars + SEO at $49/file (Conductor). Copy this: name one ugly legacy tool your network still runs and sell a paid integration to a single buyer first.
  • 📲 Hard-paywall cross-poster → ~$49K MRR. Jack Friks turned daily re-posting pain into Post Bridge (launched Oct 2024, no free tier). Now Stripe-verified $49,352 MRR / 1,641 subs (Post Bridge). Copy this: film a 30-sec mockup of a multi-post workflow and charge for the waitlist before you code.
 

💰 THE MONEY DROP

SONG LYRICS → LANGUAGE APP → $25K A MONTH

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