Simon Steilgaard

@itsjojoduke1 @LouisDavidPH heard of profit margins not being 100? afaik it were doing 15/k rev a month at the time of his sale, down from his peak months

@LouisDavidPH $80OK revenue. $150K exit? Something seriously doesn't add up

1.5 years of uni 12 failed apps 0 job offers All while my classmates were getting promotions at companies I couldn't even get interviews for. Dropped out at 21. Spent 3 years reselling sneakers, doing Upwork gigs, and building apps from my childhood bedroom that nobody used. Watched people with less drive get funded, hired, and celebrated because they fit the mold. But I was shipping one failed app after another. Until one finally hit. 2M users. $800K revenue. $150K exit at 24. The system isn't built for people who don't follow the path. Use that as fuel.

@nickgdwn yea for sure, but the funnel/quiz itself is the least important part of web2app - more if SW has planned focus on the web2app space now, certainly interested :D

@steilgaard Flows for in-app onboarding and web2app are built on the same stack and use you can use them interchangeably, so we’re offering both at the same time.

Running onboarding experiments requires a heavy tax on design and dev resources. Running web2app experiments can be just as costly. What if you could run tests as fast as you run paywall experiments in Superwall? No dev time spent. No waiting for an app update. And all the analytics you'll need. That's the idea behind @Superwall Flows. Whether you want to test your app onboarding, a user cancellation flow, a web2app funnel, or an educational user flow... Ship and experiment without any app updates. I'd love to know what you think.

@vpdn @niklogvinenko @RevenueCat Yes, check out Superwall's Dynamic Property solution. You can define different styles, click actions, hide/show different component all based on variables (or which product is selected)

@steilgaard @niklogvinenko @RevenueCat Conditional styles as in changing how parts of the paywall look (colors etc)? Or hide/show certain elements based on a condition? We're iterating fast, let us know what else you like to see! youtube.com/watch?v=PqCz5Y…

We are planning to release a new app soon! So we are thinking about what to use for subs: @RevenueCat or @adapty I really struggle to choose one because pricing and features are almost the same. So — which tool is BETTER? Any opinion appreciated.

@vpdn @niklogvinenko @RevenueCat What RC is loosing on is the customizibility. Originally we used RC, but due to you not being able to do Conditional Styles we went with SW. I actually think that is the most prominent issue that RC Paywalls got. Also i think the liquid templating is nice to make timers.

@steilgaard @niklogvinenko @RevenueCat How can we make RC paywalls better for you?

@liraf_ @seraleev I thinjk most of his apps are using Google Search Ads which is "pull ads", meaning they already searching for his solution. Pull ads (meta, tiktok, shorts) are different, user are not actively searching (intent) for it. But with a hard paywall he could prob earn +50% more.

@steilgaard @seraleev I’m relatively new to this game, but I think there are plenty of apps (including @seraleev's) running soft paywalls that are profitable and sustainable with ads. I wouldn’t put them in the “charity” bucket

I don’t like hard paywalls because they hurt trust. Users should be able to try an app before being asked to pay. When the first screen is just a paywall, it often feels like the developer is optimizing for short-term revenue instead of proving the product’s value. Honestly, I’d love @Apple to add a guideline restricting hard paywalls. A good app should earn the subscription, not force it upfront.

@betomoedano Just add auth after paywall if you need it

Most apps don't need authentication Auth hurts you in ways you don't expect: it adds friction to onboarding, makes App Store reviews harder, forces you to implement account deletion, and creates a whole layer of maintenance you didn't ask for You can always add it later. Ship without it first

@jackfriks Whats the primary change? AI-focussed?

someone said to sell when you are up 40% in a month 😳

@Shpigford In Apple Music there requirements are looser - and it will create a normal iCloud account for you

@Shpigford The hack is to create it via Apple Music web app

how does anyone create a new apple account? spent hours today and apple blocked every single attempt with vague error messages. wasn’t doing anything automated.

@jonathanzliu Its SuperWalls new integration with Stripe. Link = Stripe Managed (the old Lemon Squeezy MoR)

first time i’ve seen a stripe payment dialog for an app in the app store… and ofc it’s cal ai

@loaibassam whats the analytics tool

I went full "cave mode" for 2 months (maybe three, I lsot count :D) to answer one question: Can Plutio.com run and scale with only 1 person? I let everyone go. No team. No safety net. Just me, non-stop experimenting, and building the ultimate autonomous HQ. Literally every aspect of the business is now becoming autonomous AND self-evolving... (I'm SOOOO CLOSE!) Support. Onboarding. Demos. SEO. Marketing. Product updates... I'm just getting started, and the results are mind-blowing!! 🤯 If you’re trying to solve a bottleneck, fix retention, or scale... DO NOT start with hiring. Start by asking AI. Most people don't realize the incredible advantage they are sitting on. I mean just look at the results in the screenshots... they are mind-blowing 🤯 🚀

@niklogvinenko @RevenueCat @adapty Running SW and RC myself, but it really depend on your need. B2C performance is really dependant on your paywall and offering, and SW just makes it so much easier to test stuff. RC's experiements (A/B-testing) is great, but not really useful for "power users".

@niklogvinenko @RevenueCat @adapty RevenueCat is so much better. More mature and generally supported. RevenueCat is great for Sub management, but for Paywalls, i would recommend SuperWall

@alwaysjoshp Use Stripe app2web or use Web funnels

App Founder: 'We just hit $1M ARR’ Me: 'Dope. How are you getting to $10M?' Founder: 'Double down on paid spend on Meta’ Me: 'Did you raise money?’ Founder: 'No…’ Me: 'So how can you afford to double your marketing spend then?’ Founder: 'Honestly, we can’t.’ I hear this a lot. App founders’ biggest hurdle right now is cash flow. Unless your marketing payback is sub-30 days, you’re in trouble. Here are 3 ways to improve cash flow - without raising money. Plus a bonus tip at the end for apps that are doing >$25K MRR - Optimise your paywall for annual/lifetime subs instead of weekly/monthly - Shorten your free trial from 7 to 3 days - Cut founders salaries if you can afford it. Re-invest in marketing instead, and optimise for a big pay out when you sell the app instead Bonus tip: - If you’re conversion rate of free to paying user is 5% or above AND - Your resubscribe rates are above average for your niche - Then you can afford to test increased prices in your app. Save this for when you need it.

@ErnestoSOFTWARE even bigger on their web funnels

This TikTok account for women got 160M views with 5 videos and they are not selling anything. Meanwhile there’s an app in the exact same niche of those videos Making $200k/mo with 10k downloads Who’s building this ?

@elvissun @eliasstravik free trial but with cc validation (no charge) will remove most unserious users If you are not a VC case, don’t act like one

ok chat, how do you handle AI product launches? if I offer a free trial it will absolutely blow up every single api quota + server + db. should I launch with free trial or a paywall? (or have an emergency flag ready to enforce paywall if too much traffic?)

@mrblindmouse @seraleev @alexcooldev A default iOS app.

@seraleev @alexcooldev Whats playground, never heard of it?

I’m moving from ChatGPT to these apps. And feel better.

@adriaandotcom wearing you meta glasses during sex?

Workers in Kenya are watching your most intimate moments through Meta's smart glasses: bank cards, bathroom visits, sex. Zuckerberg says you control your privacy. The workers watching your footage say otherwise. This is the same guy who settled an $8 billion lawsuit last year over privacy violations rather than testify under oath. The same guy who ran Facebook as what shareholders called an illegal data harvesting operation. The same guy who has been apologizing for privacy violations since 2006: Cambridge Analytica and the FTC consent decree he violated. I was once invited to join a Facebook roundtable about privacy. This was after they had harvested SMS inboxes from Android users. "Caring about privacy." Every time, the pattern is identical: launch the feature, harvest the data, get caught, apologize, promise it won't happen again, host a roundtable. The glasses have a recording light, but people on HN found you can tape over it mid-recording and it keeps going or drill out the LED entirely. Meta detects the tampering and shows a warning but lets you record anyway. Meta says the AI features require your video to be processed and shared onwards. That processing cannot be turned off. Once it's uploaded, there's no clear separation between what gets used for inference and what goes to human labelers in Nairobi. It's always the same with Zuckerberg. He's had two decades to prove he takes privacy seriously. The track record says he doesn't. No surprise.