u/Bright-Driver75

got this question in comments as well as in my dms so answering here :

1. $25 - one time playstore account creation charges

2. $10 - I use a testing service to pass 12 tester/15 days, (this can be done for free as well using some sub-reddits)

Else I am not shipping anything that involves AI as backend, initially my focus is on apps which are natively offline.

For doing vibecoding I use Google antigravity with 10 accounts as a workaround for limits.

Let me know if you need to know anything more.

It's been 4 months since I started building apps, I now have a fair idea on how to ship the apps to playstore, the initial challenges included finding the idea which feels right to me, built 4 apps with what I thought was needed or will convert, then I sometimes went to sensor tower or app analytics platform to see what apps are actually making money, to my surprise most basic apps were more money than I could comprehend, then I checked those apps, made my version of those with better Ui and half the price, 15-days into the Play Store and I made my first sale : $2, the next day- $2 again, then nothing happened for next 13 days and on 14th day - $4, I mean I did not do any marketing, every user is actually organic, playstore handles the app discovery part for me,

I feel great that someone from the other side of world paid money to use my app without knowing anything about me.