I’ve seen some other developers posting year in reviews and found they were interesting. Here are some stats on how SQLPro is doing.

Revenue

2017 has been the best year on record with website sales in the lead.

Website

SQLPro has been using Fastspring for its sales provider for most of 2017. Some products have been transitioned over to Paddle as they have a few features that seem interesting. Both Fastspring and Paddle make selling products online very easy.

Setapp

SQLPro Studio joined Setapp in March 2017. Income has been increasing month over month and IMO has not taken any revenue away from other sources. Setapp provides revenue in two ways. First is app usage which is how most of SQLPro’s revenue is generated. Second is referral revenue (of which I’ve proudly received one signup). If you are interested in trying Setapp give my referral a try. https://go.setapp.com/stp146

Windows App Store

I dipped my toes into the Windows app store in late 2016, early 2017. I’ve not included any numbers in these charts as they have been embarrassingly small. That said, the Windows platform is where I started developing and I’m always interested in seeing how it evolves. More SQLPro products may come to Windows in the future.

iOS

SQLPro products have recently been released on iOS. It has been difficult for me as desktop developer to wrap my head around developing for the smaller touch based UI. Thankfully most of the core logic within the applications are shared between both iOS and macOS. This allows me to spend more time focusing on the UI. I believe that SQLPro is shaping up to be one of the best database clients available on iOS.

Conclusion

Many say that macOS indie developers cannot make it and that iOS is the way forward. I cannot quite speak to the iOS market yet, but I can say that with the right product macOS can still be a successful platform.

Thanks for reading!