This app was started in 2017 and it is still running today and making (way more modest than back then) revenue. It’s just that I don’t work on it anymore.
> This fundamentally does not work for anyone with more than 10M+ installs just like you can't write Mandarin and English in one script.
Well, I did work on a Flutter app with a tiny team between 2018-2021 and we had 15M installs, were app of the day, got featured multiple times in the App Store, got Google’s design award, were a preloaded app on iPhones in Apple Stores in several countries, and were overall doing quite well.
It was a very focused app though, so the size of our codebase didn’t really grow with the number of installs.
I only have one meeting a month nowadays so I might take a look if that situation ever changes (hopefully it doesn't!).
Regardless, congrats on the launch.
> the macOS app and Chrome extension communicate via WebSockets on localhost; nothing leaves your machine.
So the macOS app sets up a local webserver on some port that the Chrome extensions knows about in advance? Smart, kinda like how I had to do an auth flow for one of my CLI apps.