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@affprinter The funniest part is spending months learning video hooks just to discover the algorithm secretly wanted a PowerPoint.

people keep asking me why I only post slideshows and not videos this is why TikTok scans videos 3 times before they even hit the FYP. visual recognition, audio fingerprinting, promo detection. your video gets judged before a single person sees it slideshows bypass almost all of that. TikTok treats them as image posts. lighter moderation. faster push. less flags then the engagement math is completely different someone scrolls past your video in 1.5 seconds and you're dead. but 6 slides = 15-30 seconds of active swiping per viewer. algorithm reads that as "this person was locked in" slideshows clear each distribution pool with way less viewers because the engagement per person is insane compared to video this is why a slideshow on a fresh account with 0 followers can hit 500k in 48 hours while a video on the same account sits at 200 views explained the full breakdown + how I turned this into $100k/month in this article

@Aiwithkumail Consumer app Twitter sounds like three marketers and one habit tracker template got locked in a room together.

POV: Your timeline • 'Hit $4k MR'
Meanwhile consumer app bros: • vibecode pretty habit tracker • 200 AI UGC girls saying it cured their doom spending • $50k/month passive
Different universes.

@nestymee This is one prompt away from replacing half the "just ideate manually" advice on the internet. Very clean workflow.

my new tiktok content workflow with claude cowork from 1 prompt: - find competitors' fan accounts - analyze hooks + comments - break down the viral formula - find best carousels in the niche - generate 5 carousel concepts for aesty with visual direction cowork passes it to nano banana, generates the visuals, posts via postfiz

@maubaron Those two-week ad learning phases really are the gym membership of growth: painful at first, suspicious in the middle, then suddenly annoyingly worth it.

"paid ads don't work" if you want to make a business they do we are getting better CPAs than we were with a free trial this was a painful change that took 2 weeks to show results but it's clearly working tiktok ads are the most underrated paid ads channel right now

@nomalex_ If this works, "verified purchase" is about to become the app equivalent of putting fresh cookies by the front door.

Going to test something new on one of my apps: A carousel of verified purchases. It shows all the recent purchases/subs/renewals my app had (real ones). On tap on "Verified purchase", it opens an in-app browser showing the last 10 purchases the app had, in a reassuring style. Really don't know if it's going to have an impact, but it's worth the try!

@bymarcoperez Two billing errors is just Apple reminding you they also enjoy plot twists. Strong start.

My first iOS app has been live for 2 weeks. Here are the stats so far ⚡️ - $43 MRR - $128 Revenue - 600+ downloads - 100+ active trials - 17 five star reviews - 2 billing errors :( A lot can change in one week, but I have a long way to go!

@mariosaputra ASO really is half science, half summoning circle. Hope the keyword gods reward the experiment.

First time submitting custom product page. Let’s see if this works for ASO by targeting specific keywords without building an entirely new app.

@StevenCravotta Wide open, yes. Emotionally open too, because the App Store reviews still know how to hurt people.

The mobile app space is still wide open. The mobile app space is still wide open. The mobile app space is still wide open. The mobile app space is still wide open.

@nomalex_ Sometimes an app’s final feature is teaching you what not to build twice. Respect to the fallen soldier 🫡

I've got one app that generated 0 revenue in 6 months. It's my only app (out of 10) that made 0. Now I think it's time to kill it 🥲

@chizzatto $600 to $1k always feels like the longest stretch and then suddenly it’s just your normal Tuesday. Rooting for the plot twist 😄

This is pretty cool and I don't have winback offers. Going to go full focus on this app next month to try get it close to 1k monthly revenue. Currently at $600.

@mariosaputra At this point half of indie hacking is building the app and the other half is trying not to invoice yourself for emotional damage 😄

Before coding agent, you might wasting time with indie hacking, but at least you had fun coding 😅

@seraleev Breaking things into tiny steps is basically the adult version of turning the boss fight difficulty down to easy 😄

Here’s a simple hack I use all the time. Any problem or goal stops feeling overwhelming once you break it down. When I build a new app, I always split it into small steps. I just follow the list and move faster without overload. If it’s a financial goal, it’s even simpler. Take the goal and divide it by 30 days. $1500 / 30 = $50/day Can I make $50 in a day? Of course I can. Now it feels achievable. That’s exactly what I did with screencut.app – one of my first apps after the reset. I had all the tools, and all of them were free: > ASO optimization > app localization > screenshot updates > posting on X > Product Hunt launch > Reddit posts > analyze, improve, repeat what works Once you break the goal down, it stops being abstract. You get a clear plan and a simple daily focus. Break it down. Give yourself 30 days and start the transformation.

The last stubborn stronghold of the human developer is adjusting UI.

A new day is here

The app i spent too much time to build, turns out does not work out very well. The app business sometimes seems random.

I just found that when i use Chinese to communicate with chatGPT, the answers are more concise and precise, not sure it is because my Chinese is much better then my english or the language itself has slight differences in term of describing things.

Forgot about the apps, MRR, CPA, in app purchase, onboarding. Taking a day to make some hardware related stuffs.

@mariosaputra Yeah, that’s true, seems nobody cares about the developers user experience at all 🤣

If you have released an iOS app, it’s actually a massive achievement. The coding and $100 fee is one thing, but the real filters are these: - Navigating App Store Connect - Understanding certificates, provisioning profiles, .p8 files, etc - Wrestling with XCode - Implementing subscriptions (even with RevenueCat, it’s still tricky) - Dealing with rejections I think a lot of people give up at these points before ever shipping their first app.

Gonna send this ui change to Codex to implement it

@mariosaputra Being able to say no is definitely a freedom, good luck and smash it