Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)

When I talk to 12 founders a week, I'm seeing six of them are crushing it with iOS apps. There's a guys that we interviewed on the channel that, have an app that forces you to do push ups. They're doing 30 k a month. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like my days off on a roll. Let's travel. No. Pat is here from Starter Story. Pat, HubSpot just bought Starter Story. Yeah. That's amazing. Congrat congratulations. Thank you. Is the news out? It is a fit technically, not closed yet. So I'm in a going through a whirlwind. I I'm gonna try to put on a good face for you guys. You're seven days out right now from from selling. And when this goes live, it is presumably close. And yet you are nervous. What's that about? Well, the deal is supposed to close tomorrow. But, you know, it's the psychology of it needs to be signed, closed, wired. Otherwise, I cannot take myself to that place yet, that place to, you know, celebrate or tell people or anything like that. And it's kind of weird, you know, doing the production process because, you know, content needs to be recorded early to go out. So it's super weird to do an interview before it's done. How did you do with the negotiation? Do you feel like walk us through how you approached that and how you think you did. Do you give yourself a score there? I had a number in my head before any of this conversation happened. When it just came to my head, I started talking to ChatGPT about it, having a little conversation of, like, what is before even the sale or anything conversations happened, she said like, what would be my walkaway number? And I just remember thinking back what that number is. And when I went back to the negotiation and then it sort of was that number, I was like, okay, well I made up that. That would have been my number before any sale influenced me or anything like that. I negotiated to that number because I wanted to be like authentic in my negotiation of, like, that was, like, truly my number, not to make up something for whatever. That was actually the number. Do you feel any bit of regret? Because you're like, oh, I got my number. I should have asked for more. Yeah. 100%. You haven't raised it. If that doesn't happen, that's the final stage. Maximum regret, and then it turns to maximum relief when it's done. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So let's let's explain. What is starter story? People don't even know. Starter story is a lot of things, but it started out as a side project while I was working at nine to five because I couldn't start any successful business. So I said, why not just …