id: devto-83-shipping-60-days title: "60 days, 6 iOS apps, 80+ dev.to articles, $0 marketing budget: what actually worked" category: content priority: P0 status: paste-ready eta_min: 15 actions: [preview, copy-clipboard, open-devto] type: distribution platform: dev.to article: 83 tags: ["indie-hacking", "ios", "build-in-public", "productivity"] created: 2026-05-07 60 days, 6 iOS apps, 80+ dev.to articles, $0 marketing budget: what actually worked Day 60 of a 100-day indie iOS experiment. Revenue: $0 so far. Here is the honest retrospective on what generated traction and what died quietly. The TL;DR I spent $0 on marketing. Everything was organic: dev.to articles, Substack newsletters, a B2B lead funnel, and Apple TestFlight beta cycles.…