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by Guestmodinfo 156 days ago
Hi, can you please tell me:

1. What are the upfront cost that you need to pay the apple store for them to host your app?

2. Do you need to host your app on some server and connect it to app store. What are the cost of that?

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Sure, happy to share.

The Apple Developer Program costs $99/year.

On the backend side, the app does use servers for AI processing, so there are ongoing costs depending on usage (compute + storage). I’ve kept the initial setup fairly lean while validating usage and trying to understand real demand before scaling anything aggressively.

One of my main goals with this project is to learn how to balance infrastructure costs with a consumer subscription model in a sustainable way.