{"id":38726,"date":"2023-03-09T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T19:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38726"},"modified":"2023-03-09T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T19:46:14","slug":"indie-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/09\/indie-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.david-smith.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/08\/new-post\/\">David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.david-smith.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/08\/new-post\/\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/widgetsmith\/id1523682319\">Widgetsmith<\/a> has just achieved a remarkable milestone, surpassing 100 million downloads since its launch in September 2020.  A number that I can&rsquo;t really wrap my mind around.  A number larger than the population of all but 14 countries (&#x1F92F;).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The success of Widgetsmith was made possible by the amazing platform Apple has made and the amazing users it has attracted.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It took me a long time to get here, Widgetsmith was the 59th app I launched over 12 years, and there are no guarantees that anything we make will ever find its audience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/15\/widgetsmith-for-ios-16s-lock-screen\/\">Widgetsmith for iOS 16&rsquo;s Lock Screen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/widgetsmith-2-0\/\">Widgetsmith 2.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/widgetsmith\/\">Widgetsmith<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Smith: Widgetsmith has just achieved a remarkable milestone, surpassing 100 million downloads since its launch in September 2020. A number that I can&rsquo;t really wrap my mind around. A number larger than the population of all but 14 countries (&#x1F92F;). [&#8230;] The success of Widgetsmith was made possible by the amazing platform Apple has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-03-09T19:46:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"45281990-00ad-4a87-a24f-c1e3aa4be822","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-03-09T19:46:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ARSgZkACtSoeiT8HjqkvoIg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,31,2185,26,1989],"class_list":["post-38726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-widgetsmith"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38727,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726\/revisions\/38727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}