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Mo Builds 〽️
@0xato
Building & scaling mobile apps 📱 iOS dev · AI enthusiast ASO & paid ads Road to $10k MRR 🚀
The Kingdom of Morocco 🇲🇦 Katılım Eylül 2014
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@align_all You can ask Apple to remove this review, don't worry
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@adamlyttleapps Being stuck at 70k a month seems really not that bad
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Finally seeing growth after a year being stuck at $70k/month
Adam Lyttle@adamlyttleapps
Sales are "stuck" at $70k/month On one hand it's stable But on the other hand there's no growth My strategy *was*: Building lots of apps to rank in organic results. Revenue grew because of the accumulative effect. But App Store has changed and that strategy feels risky. To fix the "growth" issue: I'm taking the time to build a product suited for marketing. When I looked at my portfolio: apps targeting a single keyword don't translate to meta ads (who cares about a currency converter?) The irony of building in the AI age is that my actual release schedule has *decreased*
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Running Meta Ads for Mobile App
-> 💰53.67 today (12.07 pm)
-> Trials start converting again
Posting AI videos still brings engagement
$50 daily is not a lifesaver but not bad
Easily live in Thailand or Bali with this revenue🏝️
As a 6-year digital nomad, I travel less
Cold weather makes me more productive
London🇬🇧 or Toronto🇨🇦 might be the next destination
Muhammet A. 👉🏻 Mobile Dev@indiesoftwaredv
Marketing vs Building? Years of freelancing Made 6 figures $$$ Quitting slowly Increasing apps revenue Have 8 apps in the market Making ~$4k(7 apps) + $1k new app Spent 6 years building and resulted in ~$4k Spent 20 days on marketing, new app made $1.1k We developers sometimes forget why we build apps > Earn money This is our purpose But most of the time we are waiting for users to come Are you still waiting for users without Marketing?
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@seraleev Thanks for the great tips, really appreciate your posts! 🙏
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If your app uses ad SDKs like Meta, TikTok, or Google Ads, make sure to specify in the App Review Information that your app has no ads. Otherwise you’ll get an automatic rejection.
Apple’s new automated review detects ad SDKs as a signal that your app contains ads.
Same thing happens if you use Firebase anonymous auth, the system will flag it as a login feature. Add a note in App Review Information clarifying that your app has no login.
Valentin@s23amourai
@athcanft they started to use ai (the app don't have any ads, just tiktok sdk)
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@seraleev i have seen many accounts like this in the past years, way before ai coding was a thing
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Can’t believe this account is real. Welcome to the AI slop era, it’s official 😭
SimonGen@archi_gen
App Store final BOSS 💔🙏💀😭
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Building a high converting app onboarding flow is hard..
So I built a Claude Skill that does it for me
Instead of spending hours figuring out the right questions and pain points… now it's done in 5 minutes
Just point it at your codebase and it does the rest
Questionnaires. Custom plans. App demos. The exact strategy used by Cal AI ($1M/mo) and Mob ($100k/mo)
It's the App Onboarding Questionnaire skill and it's available on github here:
github.com/adamlyttleapps…
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@adriamatz I think these onboarding views are all react screens and they pretty much a/b test them on the fly, i have seen the exact UIs in web apps too
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@0xato I think it’s intentional, this type of onboarding converts really well
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You should steal this onboarding flow
Woofz makes $300K/mo teaching people to train their dogs
Here's how they do it 👇
Onboarding
- Asks your dog's name (instant emotional investment)
- "What tricks does Max already know?"
- Fake progress graph of what you'll achieve
- "Creating personal program for your fluffy friend..."
- Review + social proof while you wait (10M+ happy dog parents)
Paywall
- Before/After illustration (biting → happy dog)
- 4 price options but FREE TRIAL highlighted in green
- "3 days free" in huge text, €9.99/wk in small
- Best value tag on quarterly to push you off weekly
- Close button? Almost invisible. Good luck finding it.
They sell the transformation
Not the commands
$300K/mo from people whose dog won't stop barking
Watch the full flow
Adrià Martinez@adriamatz
This app makes $300K/mo turning dog training into Duolingo → 100K downloads/mo → Streaks, XP, bite-sized lessons → $8/wk to learn "sit" & "stop barking" YouTube teaches this free But YouTube won't track your dog's progress Or nudge you to train daily Gamify everything
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@indiesoftwaredv free trials does work for me too unlike hard paywalls
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New Daily Record $168.15💰💰
- 4 new monthly subs
- Rest if they came from trials
Do you remember my trials posts a couple of days ago?
> 31 trials started
> 10 of them canceled
> Turned off trials and waited to see the result
When the first 10 trials were canceled I posted bad thoughts about it
I can't say it has worked for years
But as you see it brought enough
So I have turned in trials again 😄
Those 4 months' subs came from my AI videos
Next, I will post the latest MRR and Revenue
(some good changes ;)
Muhammet A. 👉🏻 Mobile Dev@indiesoftwaredv
I am obsessed with @RevenueCat mobile app these days Tracking each trial convert time 😄 In 11 minutes, I will have $22.5 more in my pocket 💵 One hour ago, one trial converted +$22.5 💵 Waiting 5 more trials to convert today If the rest of the trials convert, I will change my mind about free trials 😂
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@seraleev My refund rate dropped 80% with one change. I was showing $5.83/mo instead of the actual $69.99/yr. for yearly plan
Most refund requests come from confused users not bad products
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Refund saver is included on apphud in my plan, but I don’t use it on purpose.
Refunds are one of the most valuable signals in my product. If users ask for their money back, I want to know how often it happens and why. My job is to understand that and fix either the product or the pricing.
If I see high refund rates in a specific country, it usually means the price is off. I adjust using purchasing power parity, and it works really well for setting the right price per market.
Refunds often come with negative reviews too. Read them. Filter them. Don’t ignore them, they’re one of the fastest ways to improve your product.
Viktor Seraleev@seraleev
Some developers try to reduce refund rate using refund saver. At first glance, it looks like a win. Yes, refund saver lowers the refund rate. But it doesn’t reduce unhappy users. What does a user do when they expect a refund but get denied? They leave a bad review. Or worse, report your app. You’re lowering the metric, not fixing the problem. High refunds usually mean: - pricing is too aggressive - product quality doesn’t match expectations You don’t need a refund saver. You need to understand why users are unhappy.
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@Brand @zerohedge Not sure how it’s breaking when we were talking about this yesterday:
Zack Guzmán@zGuz
Surely tech bros can't really be falling for this "first one-person company to hit $1B with AI" NYT story Dude is out here using fake Doctor Facebook ads to hawk boner pills and weight loss drugs to old people (h/t @thattallguy)
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BREAKING 🚨: This is extremely illegal. This is Matthew Gallagher, who created 800+ Facebook accounts posing as fake doctors to advertise on Facebook, and went on to build a GLP-1 telehealth company with just $20,000, AI, and only one full-time teammate, his brother. The New York Times fabricated their AI startup story.
It generated 401M USD in 2025 and could reach 1.8B USD in 2026. Medvi received FDA Warning Letter #721455 in February 2026 for misbranding violations. Its clinician network, OpenLoop, suffered a data breach in January 2026 that exposed 1.6 million patient records.
Futurism reported that they used AI-generated deepfake before-and-after photos in their marketing. A class action lawsuit was filed in Delaware in November 2025. They are also running 800+ fake doctor accounts on Facebook to sell compounded GLP-1s.
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this kid has racked up 650M views on TT turning himself into whatever celebrity his followers request
> first video was uploaded 40 days ago
> since then: 80 videos, 650M views, 768K followers
> one format, recycled over and over
and the wildest part? he’s not even real
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@seraleev isn't this against apple guideline 3.1.2, since it may be confusing for users thinking they will never pay
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Small hack. I use it in my own apps.
Adding a «No payment required now» text above the purchase button increases conversions almost every time.
We don’t fully know why – it just works.
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Shoovy and Wando get in to a HEATED argument and it gets PHYSICAL… 😳
@shoovy1x @wandoascends
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@marclou @trust_mrr Who sells a "startup" for 200 bucks?? bro selling templates at this point 💀
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@seraleev his approach is flawed and he knows it. That why he is selling consulting and not making apps 🤣
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I found a quick guide on how to make money fast… and get your account banned
• Copy the onboarding flow and paywall structure from your competitors.
• HARD paywall at the end. No trial. No freemium. Users must PAY to get their desire satisfied.
• Pricing: $9.99/week + $39.99/year. Retention offer $29.99/year if they try to cancel.
• DO NOT SEND NOTIFICATIONS: Retention is a suckers game with B2C apps. The less you can "remind" your users that they're paying you weekly, the less they'll churn.
Or better – don’t read this. Build useful apps. Improve retention. Play the long game
Will@athcanft
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