--- title: My wife gave me 100 days to make it as an indie creator description: An iOS developer announces his transition to full-time indie content creation, setting a 100-day goal to reach £50k ARR through his tech publication. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-wife-gave-me-100-days-to-make-it-as-an-indie-creator-18sfwtkyz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My wife gave me 100 days to make it as an indie creator | daily.dev og:description: An iOS developer announces his transition to full-time indie content creation, setting a 100-day goal to reach £50k ARR through his tech publication. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-wife-gave-me-100-days-to-make-it-as-an-indie-creator-18sfwtkyz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/18SFWTkYZ.png og:image:alt: My wife gave me 100 days to make it as an indie creator og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My wife gave me 100 days to make it as an indie creator **[Jacob’s Tech Tavern](https://daily.dev/sources/jacobbartlett)** · 3 min read · 48 upvotes · 9 comments ## Summary An iOS developer announces his transition to full-time indie content creation, setting a 100-day goal to reach £50k ARR through his tech publication. The strategy focuses on growing the subscriber base through new content formats like developer interviews and creator spotlights, while improving paid conversion rates by developing tools for iOS developers. Success means sustainable independence; failure means returning to traditional employment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@stevenb** · 8 upvotes > good luck on your journey **@jenueldev** · 3 upvotes > good luck mates.. **@elilap** · 2 upvotes > Good luck! It's an interesting journey! **@merlote** · 0 upvotes > do you have wife? haha, why? are you a masochist?, it's better to be alone **@haohmaru444** · 0 upvotes > 100 days later ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [From App Idea to 10K MRR – YouTube Series](https://daily.dev/posts/from-app-idea-to-10k-mrr-youtube-series-hol34ujvx) · SwiftLee · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#content-creation](https://daily.dev/tags/content-creation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/my-wife-gave-me-100-days-to-make-it-as-an-indie-creator-18sfwtkyz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"My wife gave me 100 days to make it as an indie creator","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-wife-gave-me-100-days-to-make-it-as-an-indie-creator-18sfwtkyz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-wife-gave-me-100-days-to-make-it-as-an-indie-creator-18sfwtkyz"},"datePublished":"2025-10-21T19:03:40.074Z","dateModified":"2025-10-21T19:04:00.667Z","description":"An iOS developer announces his transition to full-time indie content creation, setting a 100-day goal to reach £50k ARR through his tech publication. 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It’s an interesting journey!","datePublished":"2025-11-29T14:02:34.495Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/18SFWTkYZ#c-u7D6djoaO","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Eli Lap","url":"https://daily.dev/elilap","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--zNgXHXEh--/f_auto/v1731339521/avatars/avatar_9Mpm94NGnkB7AnJ3d9jij"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"do you have wife? haha, why? are you a masochist?, it’s better to be alone","datePublished":"2025-11-13T14:37:13.168Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/18SFWTkYZ#c-1UB1DdjVT","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rodolfo Merlo Ali","url":"https://daily.dev/merlote","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AFdZucorHPYH9kdI1pAuWJo1HRrmxekxCdxxPk2MvCsZ=s100"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"100 days later <my wife left me but i have a buggy code now>","datePublished":"2025-12-29T13:25:06.079Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/18SFWTkYZ#c-A4QRuhMrs","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"AGO","url":"https://daily.dev/haohmaru444","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--v-j2MPzl--/f_auto/v1741093503/avatars/avatar_tUmHBMHpGRR7sWE96RDHS"}}]} ```