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Takeaways Took Two Months to Reach the App Store
William Sayer built Takeaways V1 with Create, Anything’s predecessor, and launched in June 2025, according to Anything. His two-month journey offers founders a more useful planning reference than a stopwatch on code generation.
Anything Can Build Your App. Apple Still Holds the Keys.
Anything’s App Store dispute exposes the gap between making an app and getting it into users’ hands. The current iPhone and Android workflows show exactly where the builder’s work ends and the owner’s launch begins.
How Jake Built 'Early,' the Push-Up Alarm App Making $50,000 a Month
In this Starter Story episode, host Pat Walls interviews Jake, a 24-year-old self-taught developer and former accountant who built 'Early,' an iPhone alarm clock app where you must do push-ups to turn off your alarm. Launched at the end of 2025, the app went from zero to over $50,000 a month in just four months, racking up more than 200,000 downloads. Jake breaks down how he found and validated the idea, why he shipped an MVP in 19 days, how iOS 26's AlarmKit API made a reliable alarm app possible, and why influencer marketing and top-of-funnel views were the true secret to his growth.