# Indie Hacker Tycoon

> The solo-founder career sim

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6783726915](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6783726915)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6783726915`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Dhaval Ajitbhai Shah
- **Category:** Simulation
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-05
- **First published:** 2026-07-07
- **Size:** 28 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/indie-hacker-tycoon/id6783726915)
- **Website:** [https://indiehackertycoon.com](https://indiehackertycoon.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://indiehackertycoon.com/privacy.html](https://indiehackertycoon.com/privacy.html)

## Description

You quit your job with a few months of runway and one rule: ship apps, get users, hit $5,000 in monthly revenue before the money runs out.

Indie Hacker Tycoon is a satirical solo-founder career sim — pick a genre, design your app, then market it across X, TikTok, YouTube, cold email, and more. Every channel has its own trends, crowding, and a knack you build by using it. Marketing isn't a side menu here — it's the whole game.

THE LOOP
• Design an app — genre, audience, and how you build it (Vibe-coded, SaaS, or a thin wrapper)
• Market it — organic posts, UGC, paid bursts, or AI-generated content (cheap, fast, risky)
• Look after yourself — health sets your energy, happiness makes your work land
• Advance the month and watch the feed react — bankruptcies, viral hits, and brutal YouTube comments included

A LIVING MARKET
The market shifts under you. Genres fall in and out of demand. A rival startup races you the whole way — clone your hits, undercut you, or get bought out entirely. Big decisions (VC money? A co-founder? Open source your core?) branch the run with a real cost attached.

PICK YOUR OWN ENDING
Lifestyle business isn't the only way to win. Build something valuable and sell it. Go big and chase a real unicorn. Run a profitable portfolio of apps at once. Or skip revenue entirely and build a devoted cult following. Four founder identities — Operator, Craftsman, Growth Hacker, Influencer — each tilt the run differently.

FREE TO PLAY, NO PAY-TO-WIN
The full Lifestyle career — every mechanic, every channel, every system — is free, forever. Pro Founder ($6.99, one-time) unlocks the other four ambitions, the other three founder identities, and removes ads. Energy is never sold, never timer-gated. We just think founders deserve a good story.

## Rankings

- #1,913,474 — Overall

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