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One founder’s Dynamic Island widget hit a $1.9K month 📱

And a solo Werewolf app at ~$9.5K MRR

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Oshi Island downloads went from 170 to about 23K in a month, devs.dev daily issue #16

Issue #16 · Sunday, November 8, 2026

☕ THE COLD OPEN

  • 📱 A free pixel-pet widget: 170 → 23,452 downloads in a month
  • 🦌 Photo in, antler score out: an AI app for deer hunters
  • 🛋️ AI furniture math: a $30K sofa for ~$4.5K in parts

Small apps, loud fans. 5 minutes. Money first. Let’s go.

👀 ALSO MAKING MONEY

  • 🐺 AI-narrated Werewolf → ~$9.5K MRR. Grégoire Lemoulant (Paris, solo) turned the Werewolf/Mafia party game into an iOS app where an ElevenLabs voice plays the moderator, so nobody has to sit out. RevenueCat-verified ~$9.5K MRR, 737 subs, $53.7K all-time since Sept 2025. No backend. Growth from App Store search. Copy this: pick one party or board game that needs a narrator and record an AI-voiced version this week.
 

💰 THE MONEY DROP

FREE WIDGET → THREADS SCREENSHOTS → 23K DOWNLOADS

170 downloads in September. 23,452 in October.

👉 First step: pick one fandom you know and sketch a widget fans would screenshot. See Oshi Island, the app that did it (free on iPhone, takes a minute to try).

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