![]() ![]() I did offer my icons for free, but I started accepting donations for the icons as well. What I realized then: Even with free stuff, there’s an opportunity to make money. Icons by author, background photos from Unsplash How to still make money with free stuff I wrote a few social media posts about my icon packs and boom: The first download. The day after, I just removed the price tag from my Gumroad icons. Minimal, aesthetic, and cohesively designed. Then I had another idea: Why not just give them away for free? I actually hadn’t seen many free icon packs that I liked. I told myself: Just take your icons off Gumroad and try something else instead. All the while, I witnessed how other designers cashed in more and more money with their icon packs. A short-run ad on Facebook and Instagram didn’t translate to sales. To this day, however, I don’t quite understand how some designers managed to sell their icon packs for $30 a piece. By independent designers, small creators, or even newly-built businesses that knew how to sell, how to promote, and how to advertise these products. It was already the end of 2020, and the market was saturated with an enormous amount of iOS icon packs at every price point. The second was: You can hit or miss a trend. And I waited.īut here’s the thing: You can’t just wait for your success. I created a number of icon packs and put them up on Gumroad for sale. Many designers picked up on the trend back then and made similar amounts, sometimes even more.Īt this point, I thought: I can do this too. In a week, he earned over $100,000 with his icon pack. There is a great story about designer Traf who just at the right time created a minimal icon pack for iOS, put it up on Gumroad for sale, and made more than $5000 the first night. In this story, I want to tell you how I created a few icon packs and started offering them for free in 2021. This story is not a tutorial on how to do this. You need the Shortcuts app (Apple-owned app, free on the App Store), a cool icon pack or icon image files, and some time. Last year, one of the biggest trends on iOS was customizing the home screen with non-native app icons. But bright people have always come up with clever ways to customize iOS as much as possible. ![]() Better Black icon pack by author, background photo from Unsplash Custom icons on iOSĪpple has never been fond of giving the user customization opportunities like Android.
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