Your $99 Apple developer account is the most underrated free tier:

• Xcode Cloud: 25 compute hours a month of CI/CD
• CloudKit: up to 1 PB of free iCloud storage per app
• Background Assets: 200 GB of Apple-hosted downloads
• WeatherKit: 500K calls a month
• TestFlight: 10,000 external testers
• Foundation Models: an on-device LLM, no API keys
• Small Business Program: 15% commission instead of 30%

most indie devs pay for half of this somewhere else.