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Alex Nguyen (@alexcooldev) completed Jack Friks’s 'grow app to $5k/month'…

2026-05-10 · 06:23 UTC ·@alexcooldev ·1 min read

Brief

Alex Nguyen (@alexcooldev) says he completed Jack Friks’s $5k/month challenge at the end of 2025 and now has a second app generating $7k+/month (web + app). He pursues a '10 apps × $5k/month' strategy, stays a solo, no-VC, no-ads indie hacker, and reports ~92% profit margins by minimizing costs (reusing phones).

Why it matters

Alex Nguyen (@alexcooldev) completed Jack Friks’s 'grow app to $5k/month' challenge at the end of 2025 and says his second app now earns over $7,000/month combined (web + app) as of the May 10, 2026 post.

Key details

He follows a playbook to 'build 10 apps' and make at least $5,000/month from each; he claims most of his apps end up doing $10,000+/month, and he remains a solo indie founder with no VC funding and no paid ads.
He reports approximately a 92% profit margin excluding Apple’s cut, and says margins improved further by reusing old phones for operations and only buying new devices for testing future apps.

Source evidence

Ah I just remembered, hi @jackfriks, I completed your grow app to $5k/month (over $7k/month) challenge at the end of last year 🫡

Alex Nguyen (@alexcooldev)

My second app just crossed $7k+/month (web + app combined) 🔥.
Slow growth every single week, but compounding is real.

Still following the same philosophy:
→ build 10 apps
→ make at least $5k/month from each one

(Funny enough, most of them end up doing $10k+/month 😂)

Still ~92% profit margin if I don’t count Apple tax.
Probably even higher this month because I stopped buying new phones and just reuse old devices for operations. New phones are only for testing future apps now.

Still an indie hacker. (solo founder)
Still no VC money.
Still no paid ads.

So profit optimization always matters more to me than looking “big” on the internet 🔥

— https://nitter.net/alexcooldev/status/2053126043184271680#m